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bgtol reads the road. It does not operate it.

bgtol is an independent informational publication about motorways and other public roads in Bulgaria, written in English for people who drive cars, ride motorcycles, or move freight. The pages are meant to be useful before a journey and calm enough to reread. They are not a shop, a booking desk, or a help line for a vignette.

The name is close to BGToll, the electronic road-charging system used in Bulgaria. That closeness is a reason to be plain. bgtol is not BGToll. It is not the Road Infrastructure Agency. It is not a ministry, a police unit, or a roadside assistance brand. If you need to pay a fee, appeal a charge, or ask whether a specific plate is covered, use the operator or the authority that actually holds the record. Their sites are separate from this one.

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What we publish

  • How the motorway network is shaped, including sections that are still incomplete.
  • How general speed limits differ for cars, motorcycles, and heavy vehicles.
  • How the time-based vignette and the distance-based toll are organised.
  • How winter, mountain passes, signs, and ordinary planning change a trip.

What we do not do

  • We do not sell vignettes, toll units, route passes, insurance, or ferry and hotel bookings.
  • We do not check plates, file appeals, or speak for a driver to an authority.
  • We do not certify routes as clear, safe, or suitable for a particular vehicle.
  • We do not present unnamed experts, reader reviews, or awards.

Address

Loven, Boulevard Simeonovsko Shose 4, 1700 Sofia, Bulgaria.

How a page is made

Guides are written by the publication, not by a named outside author. Dates at the top of a guide are the first publication and the latest substantive update. Figures for speed and charging are taken from public descriptions, especially the Bulgarian government information page on national traffic rules, and from public notices of the toll operator. Where a figure is old, or where a minister has announced a future opening, the page says so.

Photographs are stock images used as illustration. A caption says when a picture is not a named Bulgarian road. Place names printed inside a photograph, if any remain, are not destinations we are recommending.

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The name sits next to a system we do not run.

BGToll is the electronic charging system for roads in Bulgaria. bgtol is a private publication in Sofia. The spellings are close enough that a hurried reader can mix them up, so the notice at the top of every page repeats the distinction in plain words: not BGToll, not the Road Infrastructure Agency, not a public authority, and not a seller of vignettes, toll products, insurance, or transport.

The practical consequence is narrow and strict. A page here can explain that a car vignette is tied to a plate and has no sticker, or that a route pass has a start, an end, up to four intermediate points, and a validity counted in hours. It cannot tell you whether your plate is covered, open an account, or quote you a price as if we were the cashier. Prices that appear in the charges guide are figures from public notices, dated, and they are not an offer from bgtol.

The same rule covers the network pages. When a minister speaks about Veliko Tarnovo in two and a half or three years, or about a full Hemus sometime toward the end of 2030, or about the Kresna gorge around 2031, those sentences stay labelled as statements about future pavement. They are not a description of a road you can drive tomorrow. A government roadmap dated 9 September 2026 on the gorge is a document about a plan, not a ribbon-cutting.

Photographs are bought as stock and stored on this site. Captions say they are illustrations, not named Bulgarian roads. We do not use a picture of a foreign sign system, a toll plaza with a barrier, or a skyline that would be read as Sofia when it is somewhere else. If a caption and a picture ever disagree, believe the caption and write to us.

Corrections go to [email protected] with the page address, the sentence, and the public source you are looking at. A material change moves the updated date. There is no outside author byline, because the publication writes the pages. There is also no review score, no award, and no qualification we have not stated.