An Egged ticket inspector is attacked by a passenger.
Taken from a body camera of another visitor/Agg
After the discussion on the policy of bus inspectors initiated last month by MK Yitzhak Pindros (Torah Judaism) in the Public Complaints Committee in the Knesset, and another discussion this week on the subject in the Constitution Committee, initiated by Knesset members Avraham Bezalel and Erez Malol (Shas), Moshe Saada and Tali Gottlieb (Likud), Yitzhak Kreuzer (Otzma Yehudit) and Matan Kahana (the state camp) the campaign led by MKs, mainly from the ultra-Orthodox sector, against the imposition of fines on passengers who do not pay on public transport continues.
This time the speaker is MK Uri Makalev (Torah Judaism), and this is already an attack On the Ministry of Transport, from the person who serves as Deputy Minister.
Makleb chose the Lithuanian ultra-orthodox daily "Yad Na'aman" to conduct an interview against the professional echelon of the ministry, to attack the supervision of passengers, and to reveal that he had ordered a re-examination of the matter.
At this week's hearing, Attorney Ofer Levy from the legal department of the Ministry of Transportation admitted that "20-30% of public transportation users do not pay for the trip.
This is not only an injury to the state coffers but also to the public, when the money is supposed to be returned to the public as an investment." Levy admitted that the ministry had disseminated a new procedure that was revealed in Vale Car, according to which the activity of inspectors on buses would be limited.
MK Uri Makleb. The data presented by the ministry according to which about 30% are not attacked are "old data" / photo processing, Reuven Castro
Makleb said in an interview that the data is not accurate.
"I do not believe that the numbers that were presented are correct and in my opinion they are lower. There is clearly a decrease in the percentage of non-validation and in order to verify the situation, I ordered an independent survey to be conducted on behalf of the Ministry of Transportation in addition to the survey conducted by the companies."
The Deputy Minister of Transportation added that this is old data that was retrieved for the purpose of the discussion from several years ago.
If the data now do not show a decrease, "this is proof of the ineffectiveness of the supervision, which requires looking for another way to replace them, for example through information or training. This is relying on sources that are clearly not updated, to prove that the supervision is justified. It is important to understand that companies also have motivation to show that the percentages of non-violations have decreased because they receive incentives for doing so. Regardless, the draconian mechanism of supervision, as it is done today, in a particularly tyrannical and aggressive manner, especially by the Egged company, requires an upgrade so that it becomes more environmentally friendly and does not keep people away from the The private vehicle."
However, Makleb said in an interview with Tid Ne'am, that "the situation also does not justify running away from payment, which constitutes robbery for all intents and purposes and causes a direct loss.
Both to the driver, who receives a premium for each validation that is part of his salary structure, and to the company responsible for paying one and a half billion shekels out of the total cost of 11.5 billion shekels for operating the traffic police in Israel, with the rest being subsidized by the state."
The Ministry of Transportation estimates that the financial loss from non-validation by passengers reaches NIS 300 million per year, which is missing from the transportation budget.
The Makleb office says that it has not yet been decided how the inspection will be carried out, and we will examine whether it is necessary to conduct a tender for this among the control companies of the Ministry of Transport.
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