Deputy Economy Minister discusses 2024-2025 action plan for road safety with sector insiders
Georgian Deputy Economy Minister Guram Guramishvili on Wednesday discussed the 2024-2025 action plan for national road safety with representatives of public agencies and related non-governmental organisations. Photo: Ministry of Economy
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Georgian Deputy Economy Minister Guram Guramishvili on Wednesday discussed the 2024-2025 action plan for national road safety with representatives of public agencies and related non-governmental organisations, the Ministry of Economy announced.
The meeting was held as part of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe project Sustainable Mobility and Smart Connectivity in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Western Balkans.
The participants aimed to discuss topics including improving efficiency of road safety management and behaviour of road traffic participants and ensuring safe road infrastructure, with the goal of reducing the number of deaths caused by road accidents by 25 percent.
In recent years, the number of cars has increased greatly, and the number of [domestically] registered vehicles has already reached 1,650 million. This trend requires additional measures in terms of road traffic safety, [which is] one of the priorities of the Georgian Government”, Guramishvili said.
He added the Government had approved the national strategy for road safety in 2016 for the years covering 2016-2020, and credited the strategy with a 28 percent reduction in road accident deaths.
The Georgian ministries of infrastructure and internal affairs are launching a public information campaign to raise awareness on the importance of road safety in the country, with the European Union lending the bodies its support in the effort.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has offered a draft bill that proposes an increase in fines for speeding in a bid to prevent traffic violations, Interpressnews said on Saturday, noting that the amendments will be submitted to the Parliament for discussions in the coming weeks.
A new bill by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia will ban vehicle drifting to improve traffic safety, the Ministry announced on Saturday.
Georgia’s National Road Safety Strategy and Action Plan for the next two years have been developed and will be approved in the near future, Guram Guramishvili, the Georgian Deputy Minister of Economy, said on Wednesday.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Saturday said the opening of a 27-kilometre, four-lane section of Rikoti Pass, a major crossing between eastern and western parts of Georgia, which includes 65 bridges and 38 tunnels, would “facilitate movement” on the road.