site.btaOver Half of Pedestrian Crossings in Bulgaria Are Flawed
NW 16:23:01 22-03-2018
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119 HOME AFFAIRS - PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS - FLAWS - INSPECTION
Over Half of Pedestrian
Crossings in Bulgaria
Are Flawed
Sofia, March 22 (BTA) - Over half of pedestrian crossings in Bulgaria are flawed and the competent authorities have until the end of June to address the flaws. This transpired at a news conference held here Thursday by the Prosecutor General, the Interior Minister and the Regional Development Ministers to make public the findings of country-wide inspections of pedestrian crossings ordered last year amid rising numbers of road casualties on or near pedestrian crossings.
The Interior Ministry will prepare recommendations to the authorities competent to eliminate the flaws. Failure to deal with them will be punishable by a fine of 2,000 to 7,000 leva.
Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov said that the inspections established flagrant flaws and violations of the legislation, including missing road signs to signify a pedestrian crossing, wrong location of pedestrian crossing or wrong road sign and markings. flaws.
He also said that this country lacks a working mechanism for punishing officials responsible for these.
Regional Development Minister Nikolai Nankov said that changes will be made in the legislation applying to crossings, a register of crossings will be built and checks will start to be made on an annual basis.
A new check will be carried out after June 30 in the settlements where the worst violations were found.
To take the most widespread zebra crossings only, the inspection found 1,501 of them to be wrongfully marked. 18 per cent have a wrong location and 53 per cent are less than 250 m apart (which is not allowed by law), and 5,000 had the requisite road signs missing.
The most violations were established in Blagoevgrad, Pazardjik, Stara Zagora, Haskovo and Varna.
Regional Development Minister Nankov said that addressing the flaws will cost 3.7 million leva and these will be provided throughout 2018. LN/
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LN1621NW.119
119 HOME AFFAIRS - PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS - FLAWS - INSPECTION
Over Half of Pedestrian
Crossings in Bulgaria
Are Flawed
Sofia, March 22 (BTA) - Over half of pedestrian crossings in Bulgaria are flawed and the competent authorities have until the end of June to address the flaws. This transpired at a news conference held here Thursday by the Prosecutor General, the Interior Minister and the Regional Development Ministers to make public the findings of country-wide inspections of pedestrian crossings ordered last year amid rising numbers of road casualties on or near pedestrian crossings.
The Interior Ministry will prepare recommendations to the authorities competent to eliminate the flaws. Failure to deal with them will be punishable by a fine of 2,000 to 7,000 leva.
Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov said that the inspections established flagrant flaws and violations of the legislation, including missing road signs to signify a pedestrian crossing, wrong location of pedestrian crossing or wrong road sign and markings. flaws.
He also said that this country lacks a working mechanism for punishing officials responsible for these.
Regional Development Minister Nikolai Nankov said that changes will be made in the legislation applying to crossings, a register of crossings will be built and checks will start to be made on an annual basis.
A new check will be carried out after June 30 in the settlements where the worst violations were found.
To take the most widespread zebra crossings only, the inspection found 1,501 of them to be wrongfully marked. 18 per cent have a wrong location and 53 per cent are less than 250 m apart (which is not allowed by law), and 5,000 had the requisite road signs missing.
The most violations were established in Blagoevgrad, Pazardjik, Stara Zagora, Haskovo and Varna.
Regional Development Minister Nankov said that addressing the flaws will cost 3.7 million leva and these will be provided throughout 2018. LN/
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