When the Sofia Municipality hates you, and the CPC pretends to work – or how we equalized the lev with the euro…

The increase in the price of the “blue“ and “green“ zones in Sofia – from 1 lev to… 1 euro per hour (note – not that 1 lev is one euro, because your salary of 1500 levs does not become 1500 euros, right?) – is yet another proof that in this city “European“ exists only in one thing: in the accounts of the citizens.

The Sofia Municipality once again claims that this “will reduce traffic“. Of course. Just as the previous increase reduced it. And that before it. And that 10 years ago. Sofia looks like a city that believes that if it raises prices often enough, the traffic jams will disperse by themselves out of shame.

The truth is simple:
- no new buffer parking lots
- no new metro lines (at this point)
- no convenient public transport connections
- no reform, but there is a piggy bank

Citizens are getting more and more expensive, but not better. Sofia residents have long stopped paying for parking — they are paying for managerial incompetence. While the streets are broken, the sidewalks unusable, and public transport – often unpredictable, each new price increase is just another patch on a hole: symbolic, expensive and completely pointless.

Sofia wants to collect European fees, but offers Balkan conditions.

Where does the money go?
And the question of questions that no one asks: Where does all the money from the zones go - millions every year?
- In better transport? Again.
- In more parking spaces? Yes?
- In modern systems? Can you feel it?

No. They go into the municipal “black box“, to sink like a car in a pothole in summer rain. This is not transport policy - it is a tax “you live in Sofia“. The goal is supposedly “dilution of the center“, but in practice “blue“ and “green“ zones become a tool for collecting revenue, not for solving problems. When a family has to pay tens of leva a week just to get to work, this is not policy - it is racketeering in the form of “Europeanization“.

A city that punishes its people instead of helping them, it is not European – it is lost.
And a few words about the CPC… CPC, are you asleep? What do you do if a company raises its prices and makes them from one lev – one euro? You will smear it with inspections, right? You will want “justification“. And about the Sofia Municipality? Are they aliens? Aren't they subject to inspection? Don't they have to explain why “one lev“ in the green zone suddenly becomes one euro? Is there speculation?

Or is speculation legal when it is municipal?

This is what happens when the Sofia Municipality hates you, and the CPC pretends to work. Come on — let's celebrate the euro…