Text file: 6673.txt
author: Matthias
downvotes: 3
end consideration date: 2015-05-06
id: '6673'
number comments: 13
number views: 2539
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Infrastructure\nThe Ministry of Infrastructure\
  \ would like to thank you for your initiative, which is useful but unfortunately\
  \ not practically feasible in practice.\nThe Republic of Slovenia is carrying out\
  \ various activities to at least partially shift traffic to rail by implementing\
  \ various projects in the field of modernisation of railway infrastructure. In this\
  \ way, it is trying to relieve some of the pressure on the road infrastructure in\
  \ terms of more freight transported by rail. The modernisation of the railway infrastructure\
  \ is also being carried out within the framework of the available financial resources\
  \ obtained from the European Union.\nA complete shift of freight traffic from road\
  \ to rail is not possible in practice, as the Republic of Slovenia, as an EU Member\
  \ State, is legally bound by the fact that road transport for all vehicles, including\
  \ freight vehicles, registered in the Member States is liberalised and unrestricted\
  \ on their territories. This means that both Slovenian and EU Member State hauliers\
  \ use Slovenian roads without restrictions, while others use them on the basis of\
  \ exchanged permits.\nRegarding the motorway renewal, we would like to send you\
  \ the following reply. Motorway renewal is very important and is carefully planned.\
  \ Depending on the type and extent of the damage, or the location of the rehabilitation,\
  \ measures are determined. We agree that more work could be carried out at night,\
  \ but not all of it is technologically feasible. In any case, we at the Ministry\
  \ of Infrastructure also advocate that as much work as possible should be carried\
  \ out at night, which is why we have made provision for this in the regulation on\
  \ roadblocks that we are currently drafting.\n "
response date: 2015-05-26
response due date: null
sent date: 2015-04-07
title: Shifting freight traffic to rail and rebuilding motorways
upvotes: 36
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/6673
