The Union Party has forced the government to re-consider its proposals for a new national rail safety regulator.
Dmitri Kreshnenvo, the opposition spokesman for Transport has suggested that the government’s plans were ‘weak’ and lacked the ‘necessary reform’ of the national rail network.
In the wake of the Dubrovka rail tragedy, the government announced that a rail regulator would ‘work with’ the Department of Transport on a new strategy for rail safety – including the revision of service and emergency training but the opposition said while such organisation was ‘necessary’, the regulator ‘must be independent and have a role for scrutiny, not management.’
Transport Minister, Pavlo Moreno said the plans were ‘provisional’ and that nothing had yet ‘been put in place.’
An investigation into the fatal crash in Buratiyan began on Monday.
