Sofia Launches Construction of Subway to Airport

A taxi is 5 euro, also takes 15 minutes and gives sustainable employment to large numbers of low skilled people - why on earth do we need to spend millions building a metro?

is that a thought that "rich" foreigners should pay 5 euro every time they fly into the capital, and another 5 euro when they leave?

what about the thousands of people employed on low wages at the airport and surrounding area? some people will only be earning 10 or 15 euro a day - should they spend half their daily wage on taxis?

improved infrastructure is vital for the city, including transport options to and from the airport - many foreigners will still prefer to take a taxi as it's often more comfortable in a country where you don't know the way around, don't speak the language, and have heavy bags to transport.

or we could follow your thinking to the logical conclusion, and ban all transport other than taxis, so then half the population can make a living driving other people around.

Amen to that Mattbg! I can't believe someone could suggest hundreds of smelly taxis queueing all day are better for the sustainable development of a capital city than clean, efficient public transportation. Furthermore, by the time the link is ready, the taxi rides will no longer be 5 euro.

Er - is it me or does the new subway just end in the centre of Sofia - any links between the railway or central bus station that might be of real use to airport customers. Stand to be corrected - don't know Sofia that well.

Believe blue line stops at Railway station, but confess I haven't used it to go there.

What, there aren't busses already to the airport? And a bus lane on Tsarigradsko Schosse? And a newly renovated road all the way from the airport to Tsarigradsko Schosse?

And who works there? A few people at the airport and the security guards on the building sites that are all that remain of the 'business park'.