Attention! From today, toll cameras will detect our average speed

From September 1, 2025, the toll system cameras will officially begin to monitor not only the current, but also the average speed on certain sections.

When we talk about "average speed", we are not talking about a camera that takes pictures the moment you pass by it. Instead, the system monitors how long it takes you to travel a given section – for example, 20 or 30 kilometers. If you did it "faster than possible", then you pressed the gas more than allowed. And the fine is in the mail.

The system uses the already familiar toll cameras, installed at the beginning and end of each section. They detect your exact time of passage and calculate whether you were driving within the limit. This is much more difficult to bypass than classic radars - because it does not depend on how fast you were driving "at the moment", but on how you were driving throughout the entire section.

When do fines for average speed come into effect?

The official start is September 1, 2025. Until now, the cameras were working, but in a test period. If you received a photo in August - it will not be for average speed, but rather for something else: not wearing a seat belt, missing lights, expired insurance, etc., writes pariteni.bg. The reason is that the system is now fully connected to the Ministry of Interior database.

At first - only on the "Trakia" highway and the Northern Speed Tangent of Sofia. Here are some of the main sections:

The first road sections in which the toll system will monitor the average speed are:

– 30 kilometers between the Stara Zagora and Nova Zagora junctions

– 13-kilometer section between the Sliven and Zimnitsa junctions

– the section between the Plovdiv East junction and Belozem, which is about 25 km long

– 10 kilometers between the Velingrad and Kalugerovo junctions

– about 9 km between the Chirpan junctions and the Stara Zagora junction

– part of the "Trakia" between Vakarel and Ihtiman – about 19 kilometers

– 8-kilometer section from the Aytos junction to the new clover on the Northern bypass of Burgas

– 28 kilometers between the Pazardzhik junction and Plovdiv West

– 23-kilometer segment from the Kostenets junction to the Muhovo junction – including the "Trayanovi vrata" tunnel

– 35 kilometers covering the route between Pazardzhik and Plovdiv North

– 22-kilometer section located between the Pazardzhik junction and the Tsalapitsa junction

– 30 kilometers between the Bulgarovo junction and the Aytos turnoff

– 9 km between the Orizovo junction and the one at Chirpan

– about 9 kilometers between Kostenets and the "Trayanovi vrata" tunnel

– the section between Karnobat and Bulgarovo – with a length of about 26 km

– 36 kilometers between the Nova Zagora and Sliven junctions

And this is not a complete list – in the first stage, 50 sections will be operational, which will be gradually announced by the RIA. After "Trakia" comes the turn of the "Hemus" highway, but only in its western part, as well as along the "Struma" and the new section between Mezdra and Botevgrad, once it is fully completed and receives the necessary act 16.