The Ministry of Transport Will Create a Unit for Urban Transport Management
18.02.2009
As soon as possible the Ministry of transport will create a Unit for management of the urban transport. This announced the Minister of Transport Peter Mutafchiev during the conference today "EU Green Paper for new culture of Urban Mobility". According to him it is essential to create a Unit which will manage the main priorities of the Green Paper as basis for the development of a national program. The unit together with the main municipalities and the association of the municipalities will form the new low for the transport in the city and the urban mobility; it will also specify the state priorities on this subject. This law and the general program will become basis to provide the investments necessary for the real improvement of the transport infrastructure in the cities, said Minister Mutafchiev. Its main activity will be the development of modern plans on the traffic organization, as well as development of projects for the improvement of the infrastructure and the building of a new one. The goal is to avoid congestions on the important places. "I hope that in a more distant perspective we will have centers which will wholly accomplish the organization of the traffic, the traffic lights management and the highway access of the city", Minister Mutafchiev also said. The activity of the unit is also connected with the preventive measures on the improvement of the traffic organization not only in the big towns suffering from congestions but also for those where the traffic jams are expected in the future. It is necessary to anticipate the traffic in the heath resort centers, where the congestions are a seasonal problem. For additional information:
Kostadin Vardev, Press Centre,
Ministry of Transport
Phone: 940 96 20
E-Mail: kvardev@mt.government.bg |