Deputy Minister Komitova: The Road Safety Education Should Begin from Early Childhood

The report on the condition of the tunnels in the country will be announced after a risk assessment of the most critical facilities has been made. This has been stated today by the Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Violeta Komitova during For 100 lives more debate on measures for increasing the road safety, held by 24 chassa newspaper.    

In the Deputy Minister’s words, besides the increasing investments in road infrastructure that contribute to the construction and modernization of sites on it, a serious attention to the drivers’ upbringing need to be paid  as the road safety education should begin from early childhood. To the participants in the debate she gave as an example measures implemented in other countries aimed at attracting the attention to the road safety topic, emphasizing that the issue does not concern a separate institution and joint efforts of all parties engaged in the process should be made.

Violeta Komitova commented that as a result of the report deputed after the accident in the Echemishka tunnel, audits of 34 facilities have been made, the critical ones have been identified and a risk assessment that will give instructions for removing the defects of all sites has been made currently. The Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works in its current composition is willing to provide similar audits of the other elements of the road infrastructure, added she.

In response to a question about the technical passports of tunnels the Regional Deputy Minister explained that after their introduction as an obligatory requirement to the  constructions in the legislation such are drawn up for new constructions and for the existing the passports are prepared when repair is in progress.