Text file: 6711.txt
author: bojanh1
downvotes: 7
end consideration date: 2015-05-21
id: '6711'
number comments: 7
number views: 2875
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Infrastructure\nAlready in 2007, the Ministry\
  \ responsible for transport (due to observations that freight traffic was increasing\
  \ and that overtaking by freight vehicles was increasing, with a consequent significant\
  \ reduction in user safety) wrote to DARS d.d. asking the company to consider the\
  \ possibility and approach of introducing a ban on overtaking by freight vehicles.\
  \ In connection with this task, DARS d.d. has proposed a method of installing a\
  \ traffic sign prohibiting overtaking by goods vehicles (sign II-29), proposing\
  \ criteria as to where it should be installed, and that at certain points or sub-sections\
  \ (slow lane, Ljubljana ring, junctions on very busy sections) this restriction\
  \ should be disregarded, as it would only lead to more congestion at peak times.\
  \ In making this proposal, DARS d.d. also took into account the traffic load criterion\
  \ of 3,000 PLDP (average annual daily traffic) of heavy goods vehicles per day.\
  \ Following the approval of the proposed criteria by the Ministry responsible for\
  \ transport, DARS d.d. prepared the order for the installation of traffic signals\
  \ on the motorways in Corridor 5 and implemented this installation in the summer\
  \ of 2007.\nAfter 2007, overtaking bans were also introduced on other newly built\
  \ motorways, where the road infrastructure required it (tunnels, viaducts, etc.),\
  \ and additionally on the entire A5 motorway Pesnica - Pince (Prekmurje motorway),\
  \ where signalling on the required safety distance was also installed.\nHowever,\
  \ following requests from hauliers, who had objected to this overtaking restriction\
  \ all along, the Ministry additionally instructed DARS d.d. in December 2007 to\
  \ proceed with the procurement and implementation of an amendment to the traffic\
  \ signalling already in place by adding a time restriction to the II-29 signs so\
  \ that the restriction only applies between 6 am and 9 am and between 2 pm and 5\
  \ pm. The supplementary signs were erected in March 2008.\n \n The issue was also\
  \ addressed in 2009 by the working group for the preparation of the Road Traffic\
  \ Rules Act. The members of the working group and the expert public were of the\
  \ opinion that, in view of the overtaking problems described above, motorways and\
  \ expressways with two traffic lanes in one direction are the most problematic,\
  \ rather than motorways and expressways with three or more traffic lanes in one\
  \ direction. A provision that would generally allow vehicles with a maximum permissible\
  \ weight of more than 3.5 t and vehicles and groups of vehicles longer than 7 m\
  \ to drive on motorways and expressways only in the rightmost traffic lane would\
  \ lead to even greater road traffic chaos and additional congestion on motorways,\
  \ thus creating additional dangerous situations for users of Slovenian motorways.\n\
  In line with the above, it should also be noted that individual sections of motorways\
  \ and expressways are subject to different levels of congestion. Such a strict restriction,\
  \ which would apply to all motorways and expressways (i.e. not only to individual\
  \ sections of motorways and expressways), could only lead to even more congestion\
  \ and crowding at peak times, thus creating additional dangerous situations for\
  \ road users, and such a strict restriction would require constant and very extensive\
  \ police surveillance and would require more technical, human and other resources\
  \ from the Police.\n "
response date: 2015-06-15
response due date: null
sent date: 2015-04-22
title: no overtaking of goods vehicles in the passing lanes of motorways and motorways
  reserved for motor vehicles
upvotes: 35
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/6711
