Minister Arslan: "We Have Invested 474 Billion Liras in Transportation Projects"

Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Ahmet Arslan said, “In the last 15 years, we have invested 474 billion liras in transportation projects. The annual amount of our savings from transportation projects is 11 billion dollars. ” said.

Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Ahmet Arslan said, “In the last 15 years, we have invested 474 billion liras in transportation projects. The annual amount of our savings from transportation projects is 11 billion dollars. ” said.

Arslan, Turkey's Bus Operators Federation (TOFED) 7. In his speech at the General Assembly Meeting, bus and road said that the circulatory system of a country's economy of transport.

Expressing that the road transport affects the side sector too much, Arslan stated that road transport has affected the 81 million and that they give importance to the sector.

Airline industry, they make a revolution, the plane of the concession is not a concession and almost became a need to express that the Arslan, but the airplane passenger from the airport to another airport said they took.

Arslan, maritime and railway transportation is the same way, he said, but thanks to the road transportation of the citizens of the city, district, neighborhood, home, so that the sector can touch the 81 million, he said.

"The industry has no problems." Stating that it would not be correct to say that everything was not rosy, Arslan said that they were much more advanced than 15 years ago.

Arslan, saving the sector 15 complexity annually, some parts of the bottom of the stairs, some see themselves as the king of roads, the days of undocumented transportation said they came from today.

Reminding that the sector prepared and enacted the law with the participation of the industry in 2004 to work in a discipline and order, Arslan stated that they brought serious obligations to those who will make transportation, they brought professional respectability to those who can do this job, and that they put them into the rules.

Arslan, 15 million professional qualification certificate in the last 4,5 years, 526 bin certificate of competence, 1,3 million vehicles were recorded, they recorded.

  • U-ETDS is coming to get rid of pirated transportation

Arslan mentioned that they gave all kinds of support to solve the problems of the sector and said that they will continue to give their support.

Emphasizing that they will improve the work they started last year on the road transport, Arslan stressed that they will re-examine the parts that are not covered.

Arslan noted that they are following the developments in such a dynamic sector, which is constantly evolving and changing, and mentioned the Road Transport Regulation published on January 8.

Minister Arslan said, “The Transportation Electronic Tracking and Control System (U-ETDS) project is very important in order to get rid of pirated transportation and prevent the mistakes of those who do wrong in this regard. The legal ground for this has been established. We want to realize this in a short time. As in the past, maybe there will be friends who complain about it, but in the end they will see that the industry will win and our country will win. ” spoke in the form.

This system will be tackled with piracy voicing the Arslan, undeservedly want to compete in the industry passed.

  • “When the work is finished, the time will be shorter and the comfort of life will increase”

Arslan said that they will continue the projects on transportation and that no big project will stop and they will relax the transportation.

Regarding the criticism of the roads of the bus after the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, Arslan explained that there is no loss of time and fuel in the city thanks to the rapid crossing of the bridge without traffic.

Arslan noted that this period will be shortened after the relevant parts of the Northern Marmara Motorway have been built and that they have opened new travel and transportation corridors to the buses, along with the new roads and routes they have made.

Minister Arslan said, “No doubt, once the ongoing works are over, both the time will be shortened and the comfort of travel will increase. Therefore, fuel, time will be saved and carbon dioxide emission will decrease. ” spoke in the form.

Mentioning the separations made in transportation projects in the last 15 years, Arslan said, “In the last 15 years, we have invested 474 billion liras in transportation projects. The annual amount of our savings from transportation projects is 11 billion dollars. ” used expressions.

  • “Bus station should stay at its current location”

TOFED Noting that the Chairman Birol Özcan recently gone through difficult periods in Turkey as a country and nation, he said it should fulfill its duties and responsibilities on everyone.

Özcan noted that they have fulfilled their duties properly and will try to bring them forward, and that the last 15 has gone a long way in highway passenger transportation.

Özcan noted that TOFED was established in 2005 for the development of the industry and talked about their national and international efforts.

Özcan, reminiscent of last year's serious efforts to update the transport legislation, which is one of the major problems of the sector, reported that new legislation was published at the beginning of the year.

However, Özcan stated that their expectations were not fully met and said, “Some innovations we demand must be included in the new legislation. It is stated that a new workshop will be held on this subject. Our expectation is to hold this workshop as soon as possible. ” said.

Özcan reminded the previous explanations regarding the moving of the Istanbul July 15 Democracy Bus Terminal and stated that they do not want the bus station to be moved and that its current location is very convenient for them.

Pirate transportation problem continues to keep its place in the agenda of voicing Ozcan, asked to increase the audits on this issue.

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