Ongoing is in the Maximus Palace The Council of Ministersby the Prime Minister’s presidency Kyriakou Mitsotakis. Initially, in his introductory position, the Prime Minister referred to dRasative upgrading of the level of safety and quality of trains in the country.
“Obviously it is not a process that is starting now, it is a procedure that is accelerating and in the day, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport signed the contracts for the restoration of infrastructure in Thessaly, which was destroyed by the Daniel bad weathershortly after the conclusion of Convention 717 in September 2023. ” He stressed.
«The timetable of the project is tight, it is 15 months, And at the end of its implementation, all the basic national railway axis will not only have complete teleikos and signaling but also in addition, but automatic braking. ” added.
“On Friday and Saturday, the first test routes with the ETCS automatic braking system were successfully carried out, the prime minister said. The system has already been installed in 79 trains and the tests will take place on a weekly basis, with the aim of the system to be operational on every train circulating on the central rail axis until the end of this year. “
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About New Applying Measures provided for in the bill and upgrade the level of railway safety, Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke of a new technological tool It will be in 3 months from today the Single Supervisory Center is the System of Exact Train Geotopes, the HEPOS system which is compulsorily entered on every train circulating throughout the Greek railway. We will finally see a few centimeters in accurately that the trains are, how speed they move and if the real -time drive regulation is violated. The system will be open and accessible to all citizens through railway.gov.gr
In addition to the teleikos and ETCS systems, the Geotozing system will act as an additional safety valve so that trains will never be re -co -ordinated on the railway.
Mitsotakis: “Our goal is for OSE to become a new PPC”
“Our goal is for OSE to become a new PPC, which we have received practically bankrupt and is now a protagonist in the energy market, “continued Mr Mitsotakis, who explained that” the new OSE will incorporate all EU compositions into its new function for both EU and EPAAAM because it is important to prevent the risk and not only. “
“They will change what has not changed for decades” noted by the Prime Minister. Change and tightening measures for staff. The prime minister said: Evaluation everywhere, psychometric tests in collaboration with the Armed Forces, Center for Education with Modern Simulators and Digital Recording of Commands and Violations. Those who are objectively right in their work have nothing to worry about. But those who are proven inappropriately have no place in the new OSE.
Along with infrastructure projects and security conditions It is required by the Hellenic Train and its shareholder to invest its own funds and bring new, modern trains that will upgrade the quality of the servicehe also said.
Concluding, Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed: “As a state we must answer collective mourning with a work that will bring results. We have the power to turn the page from a yesterday that hurt Greek society. “
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