At the meeting chaired by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, it was pointed out that during the pandemic, people were forced to go abroad by car or bus due to the halving of railway traffic during the pandemic, and unpleasant situations occurred on roads in winter.

It was noted that the relevant enterprise within the system of the Ministry of Transport has 167 buses for international trips, but the enterprise cannot compete with the carriers of the private sector and neighboring countries.

In this regard, the management of the complex was instructed to negotiate with foreign partners and bring the number of railway services to the pre-pandemic levels.

The need to attract private partners and develop competition in the field of international bus transportation was emphasized.

At the meeting, a task was set to bring 1,200 buses and e-buses to the regions this year.

It was also emphasized the need to end old-fashioned approaches in the highway system.

It was noted that the share of the hidden economy in road construction is very high, and the activity of the Transport Inspectorate, which controls it, is shown to be very slow.

Officials were instructed to adapt more than 40 standards and norms in road construction to the requirements of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers, to attract engineer-consultants with special certificates to road construction projects.

The Prosecutor General’s Office and the transport prosecutor have been instructed to create a system to stop pilferage in all processes related to their operation, from the project to the delivery of the facility.

Also, the Ministry of Transport has been instructed to take measures to install at least 30 scales that measure the weight of transport this year. In each region, it was decided to start pilot projects to transfer at least 20 kilometers of roads to the private sector.

For information, on the night of January 11, eight Uzbeks were killed and another person was injured when a JAC minivan driven by an Uzbek citizen lost control and collided with a truck traveling in the opposite lane in the Penza Oblast, Russia.

On January 16, in the Stavropol district of the Samara Oblast (Russia), there was an accident that caused the death of Uzbek citizens. In this case, a Lada Largus driven by an Uzbek driver jumped onto the opposite lane and collided with a Gazelle truck. As a result, three people in the car were killed, and four passengers were admitted to the hospital.

On January 20, two traffic accidents occurred in the territory of Kazakhstan with cars driven by citizens of Uzbekistan. On the Uralsk-Atyrau highway, Mazda CX-7, driven by a citizen of Uzbekistan, collided with a truck. Only a 14-year-old teenager survived out of four people who were in a light car carrying members of the same family. On the Atyrau-Astrakhan highway, a Chevrolet Cobalt driven by an Uzbek driver went in the opposite direction and collided with a Mercedes Benz Actros truck, one of the passengers was killed, and the others were hospitalized.