Text file: 8405.txt
author: Marko Turk
downvotes: 9
end consideration date: 2017-07-11
id: '8405'
number comments: 16
number views: 2880
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: 'Response from the Ministry of Infrastructure

  Already in 2007, the Ministry responsible for transport, in response to observations
  that freight traffic was increasing and that overtaking by freight vehicles was
  increasing, with the consequent 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 2230),
  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. Following the approval of the proposed criteria by the Ministry responsible
  for transport, DARS d.d. prepared an order for the installation of traffic signals
  on the motorways in Corridor 5 and implemented this installation in the summer of
  2007.

  Since August 2007, the newly built motorways have been put into traffic. On the
  newly handed over sections, overtaking bans were implemented where the road infrastructure
  required it (tunnels, viaducts, etc.) and additionally on the entire A5 Pesnica
  - Pince (Prekmurje motorway), where signalling on the required safety distance was
  also implemented. Other newly built motorways are not fully equipped with overtaking
  bans because the traffic loads are not as high as the criteria set. Following a
  request from hauliers, who had consistently opposed this overtaking restriction,
  the Ministry responsible for transport 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 2230 signs so that
  the restriction only applies during the periods from 06.00 to 09.00 and from 14.00
  to 17.00. The supplementary signs were erected in March 2008.

  In accordance with the agreement signed with the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber
  of Commerce and Industry and AZ in August 2009, DARS d.d. took care of the installation
  of supplementary signs at the end of 2009 on the traffic signals already in place,
  which prohibit overtaking on motorways only by goods vehicles with a maximum permissible
  weight exceeding 7.5 t.

  The fact is that overtaking by goods vehicles cannot be banned altogether, as they
  are equal road users. The principle of proportionality must always be taken into
  account in the application of transport policy measures, and such a measure is certainly
  not acceptable from the point of view of the principle of proportionality, since
  it would be a measure which would be detrimental to the road transport industry
  or the economy, while at the same time having a negligible effect in terms of increasing
  the level of road safety on the motorways. Several years ago, the Ministry responsible
  for transport already banned overtaking of goods vehicles over 7.5 t maximum permissible
  weight on the busiest sections during the morning and afternoon rush hours, which
  significantly improved the flow of traffic during rush hours. There are currently
  no plans to extend the time period of the overtaking ban for goods vehicles with
  a maximum permissible weight exceeding 7.5 t.'
response date: 2020-02-13
response due date: null
sent date: 2017-06-20
title: No overtaking of goods vehicles on AC in RS
upvotes: 21
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/8405
