“Life protection is not a matter of luck but driving behavior,” the Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure stressed Konstantinos Kyranakisat the start of the debate and processing in the principle, the draft “Road Traffic Code and other provisions” at the joint meeting of the Commerce and Road Safety Committees.
Mr Kyranakis reserved that he would study the proposals of the opposition’s speakers and specialist, who, as he said, are positive, and will be placed in the following meetings of the bill.
The Deputy Minister said he would send the committees to the Bureau of Committees to give all members of the committees, a presentation that simplifies the implementation of the “relapses” system per infringement, as advertised in the bill. It will also submit tables with the statistics related to road collisions.
Mr Kiranakis pointed out that “Associations and bodies do not – and are right – to hear the separation between accident and accident. As any life lost is not a matter of fortune but of driving behavior “and what the families of victims require from us,” is to refer to conflicts. For mild incidents, the term incidents are used, but no, in no way refer to accidents. “
Regarding the prohibitions of traffic on the buses established, the deputy minister said that “here, in fact, we are called upon to take one’s place. We have chosen to take part of the people who use public transport. If we want to improve the movement of the people who use the buses waiting for the stop, the solution is to get all of us, either circulating with our IX or TAXI, from buses. And the rationale proposed was not the absolute, complete ban, but it is a place that does not deprive the TAXI drivers. It is not clearly not to clash with the TAXI drivers, but to better serve the employee, the student, the elder who does not drive or does not have the money to take a taxi and moves by bus. “
Mr Kiranakis at the same time noted that “there is a large investment for the refurbishment of the bus fleet – which had not been done for 12 years – and even by electric green buses and we want to favor their use by citizens.”
Regarding opposition objections to the favorable movement of movement in the new CCC for the free movement of electric taxi on the buses, Mr Kiranakis said that “yes, we want to encourage the replacement of taxi with green electric vehicles, which has not been carried out. Today, however, electric taxi are very few, so they will not cause bus delays. If there are a lot of electric taxi, which will cause a problem in bus traffic, then we are here to legislate again. “
Addressing the parties, the Deputy Minister said that “general criticism has no substance. You need to take specific positions for each issue and make specific suggestions on the articles to be examined. “