DebattÅSIKTVar is the removal of the snow’s promised us in the country? Helena Lindahl (C): the Bureaucrats have created a brand new problem for rural areas This is an opinion piece. It is the writer who stands for the views that are put forward in the text, not the newspaper Aftonbladet.Photo: TT / Pontus OrreTyvärr it has been shown that the previous government has been totally uninterested to solve the problem of snow removal in rural areas. Tomas Eneroth (S), then the minister of infrastructure, stated that it has a mission to ”secure the functioning of snow removal for next winter,” writes Helena Lindahl (C).DEBATE
DEBATE. Christmas is approaching and the temperature drops in the whole of Sweden. SMHI’s warnings for the snowfall is becoming increasingly common. Sooner or later, snökaoset over major metropolitan areas and then it is also fully possible that there will be a lot of interest from the media.
at the same time, in those parts of the country where mediaskuggan is at its darkest, we are living with a problem that should generate a significantly greater arousal than wet shoes and delay of buses in urban areas.
Large parts of northern Sweden – where the familiar may be snowing pretty aggressively – lack of snow removal for private roads. What is worse is that the problem created by the public bureaucracy and allowed to roll on without any action in two years time.
Background to the problem is that the Swedish transport administration decided to tighten its control of the tidshållningen. It means that entrepreneurs today are monitored via GPS and the delays it can cause great penalty. In extension, it means that the one who cleans the snow horrible reluctant to take the job after the individual paths as the compensation is low and the risk of running the firm in spite of all exist – which can cause a delay to subsequent assignments.
Short and sweet: You wouldn’t take a job where there is a risk that other quests are affected negatively.
Through the bureaucratic maneuver, the prices for vägföreningarna increased dramatically and the number of entrepreneurs who are willing to take snöröjningsjobb on the individual path to realistic prices have been reduced. The bureaucrats have thus created a completely new problem for rural areas.
for Example, a major contractor suspended, in principle, all contracts regarding snow removal in the municipality of Vilhelmina.
Unfortunately, it has been shown that the previous government has been a total uninterested to solve the problem. Tomas Eneroth (S), then the minister of infrastructure, made a feeble attempt to during the election campaign to go out in västerbotten media and act actionable by claiming that the government ”will not accept this”.
Then he pulled with full force and claimed that it has a mission to ”secure the functioning of snow removal for next winter.”
In this statement there are essentially two problems:
first Of all it is so the mission Eneroth hiding behind the not have any with the individual paths that make. The assignment touches on the state roads and railways. It feels reasonably the minister himself.
”Next winter” looks set to arrive any day now, and in what way the removal of the snow on the private roads is secured is difficult to see. Nothing has happened – despite the fact that the problem has been widely noticed at least since two years back.
Mission slutredovisades on 29 June and includes, despite the bonus veren siteler fact that it was not included in the assignment, a passage on private roads as the primary is about to indemnify himself from liability:
”We are setting standards of quality and timeliness of the winter road maintenance of the state road, but it does not mean that we have opinions on if the contractor also takes on other assignments for example, Municipal or individual road owners”.
It actually says is that the Swedish transport administration is not actively trying to stop snöröjare from taking assignments on individual paths. The consequences of the upgrade in combination with the penalty in practice yet will get exactly the effect, therefore, except the authority’s control.
Thus, it also becomes logical to you in the paragraph about the measures and activities for the road network does not even mention private roads and it is difficult to understand which of the measures to secure the removal of the snow on the private roads.
But it was the Tomas Eneroth (S) promised in the election campaign.
Helena Lindahl (C) , Västerbotten
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