Struma motorway
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The Struma Motorway (Bulgarian: Автомагистрала „Струма“, Avtomagistrala "Struma") is a motorway currently under construction in Bulgaria. The motorway is located in the Yugozapaden area in South West Bulgaria, and follows the route Sofia-Pernik-Dupnitsa-Blagoevgrad-Sandanski to Kulata on the border with in Greece.[1] It is part of the Pan-European Corridor IV and also is part of Е79, that runs from Miskolc (Hungary) to Thessaloniki (Greece), via the Romanian cities of Deva and Craiova. This project is under the European Union's Ten-T Priority Projects. The road is also part of the proposed Via Carpatia route.
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Struma motorway | |
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Автомагистрала „Струма“ | |
Route information | |
Part of E79 | |
Length | 143 km (89 mi) planned: 172 km (107 mi) |
Major junctions | |
From | Sofia |
To | Kulata, Greece |
Location | |
Country | Bulgaria |
Major cities | Sofia, Pernik, Dupnitsa, Blagoevgrad, Sandanski |
Highway system | |
The Struma motorway forms a connection between Sofia and Kulata at the Bulgaria-Greece border with a total planned length of 172.8 km.[2] As of February 2024, about 143km. of the motorway, from Sofia to Blagoevgrad, and from Kresna to Kulata have already been completed and are in service.
The highway has a total width of 29 m, and has two asphalt-surfaced lanes in each direction, temergency halt lanes, and a 3.5m median dividing lanes.[3]
The motorway is named after the Struma River. In 2018 the former Lyulin motorway was merged with the Struma motorway.[4]