The use of flash drives for extensive documentation of the current toll system is legal, the antitrust authority has not addressed the nature of changes to the anonymized version of data carriers, while the Ministry had sufficiently explained to the bidders the expected range of toll charge for motorways and 1st class roads to bid. These are the basic arguments of the 70-page analyse, which the ministry submitted to the chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition to reassess the first-instance decision to non-legitimately cancel the toll tender.
Almost sixty thousand inhabitants of Frýdek-Místek lived to see begun the launch of the most needed local traffic structure - the bypass of the city and the connection of D56 motorway to D48.
The future railway tunnel for the high-speed railway through the Krušné hory mountains will be designed by Deutsche Bahn, operated in accordance with German regulations. This was agreed in Prague by Czech Minister of Transport Dan Ťok with his Saxon colleague Martin Dulige.
The ministry announced the competition for the construction of the missing 32 kilometres of the D4 motorway between Příbram and Písek through cooperation between the private and the public sector, the so-called PPP project. A private company will then have to operate and maintain the new motorway for 25 years. The construction of the D4 extension will not start sooner than in two years.
BESIP, the Czech association of insurance companies and the Czech Police, points out in its #nepozornostzabíjí campaign (lack of attention will kill you) the risks connected with the use of the mobile phone while driving.
The Ministry will support the construction of liquid nitrogen gas (LNG) filling stations from the Operational Programme Transportation (OPD) A total of CZK 100 million is allocated for construction support of alternative fuels infrastructure for this purpose from EU funds.