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Blog and news of the Mobilitatis Omni grouping. Proposals for the development of sustainable mobility, railway and intercity bus connections, cycling infrastructure and e-mobility for everyone in Slovenia and the border regions of neighboring countries.
Kozina, 1st of July — The dual border municipality, the Municipality of Hrpelje-Kozina, has become the 36th member to join EZTS Mobilitatis Omni (in formation). We reached an agreement with the mayor of the municipality, Saša Likavec Svetelšek, on the municipality’s support for the grouping’s programme and the transformation of Mobilitatis Omni into a European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation.
Another border municipality, the Municipality of Žetale, is now the 30th member of the Mobilitatis Omni grouping. The primary goal for the Municipality of Žetale is the restoration of frequency connections, with coordinated schedules between intercity bus transportation and nearby railway connections. Such connections were present in the municipality’s past, and there’s no reason why they shouldn’t continue in the future.
With the mayor of the Municipality of Šmartno ob Paki, Janko Kopušar, we have signed a Letter of Intent. The Municipality of Šmartno ob Paki has thus joined, as the first municipality from the Savinja region, the Mobilitatis Omni grouping. Šmartno ob Paki will soon acquire a completely new railway stop on the Celje–Velenje line. For this railway line between Celje and Velenje, we propose an upgrade within the Mobilitatis Omni as part of the corridor, which we have named the Paka–Savinja–Sotla.
Happy and resilient and happy new year. May 2024 bring us peace in the world. Let the impossible become possible by working together.
The municipality of Puconci, a municipality in Mura region, joined the Mobilitatis Omni association before the new year. We We agreed with the mayor of the municipality, Uroš Kamenšek, Master of Tourism, that the Municipality of Puconci joins the Mobilitatis Omni association as the 23rd member. We cooperated more than well with Mayor Kamenšek, also through the position of president of the Mura Tourist Association. We look forward to co-working in the future.
The municipality of Šentilj, a border municipality with more than 8,000 inhabitants, is a new member of the Mobilitatis Omni institute and the consortium of the Central European Alliance for Sustainable Mobility. We are very grateful to the mayor of the municipality, mag. Štefan Žvab, for concluding an agreement on the annexation of the Municipality of Šentilj to the Institute and Consortium of the Alliance.
We have published an assessment of the state of the railway infrastructure and connections for the Mura and Drava regions and last but not least for the Carinthia region, including the border regions of neighboring countries in Austria, Hungary and Croatia.
Although the main railway lines in Slovenia have mostly been renovated, this is certainly not the case for the border parts of these main railway lines. It is particularly worrying that the regional border lines have very poor capacities, are not in the plans for upgrades and also have poor or non-existent connection frequencies.
A key feature of the Mura region is that two of the three railway lines in this region are non-operating. In the Drava region, a key characteristic is the fragmentation of routes and the low frequency of railway connections (with the exception of the connections between Maribor and Ljubljana), especially to and from the border parts of the region. The Carinthian region has the only remaining railway line with very low frequencies of train connections.
The municipality of Kuzma, another border municipality, is a new member of the Mobilitatis Omni institute and the consortium of the Central European Alliance for Sustainable Mobility. We concluded an agreement with the mayor of the municipality, Jožef Škalič, on the incorporation of the Municipality of Kuzma into the Institute and Consortium of the Alliance.
The municipality of Cankova is a new member of the Mobilitatis Omni institute.
Last week, we concluded an agreement with the mayor of the bordering Municipality of Cankova, Danilo Kacijan, on the inclusion of the Municipality of Cankova in the Mobilitatis Omni institute and the consortium of the Central European Alliance for Sustainable Mobility.
We are very grateful for the trust shown and look forward to cooperation in the field of sustainable mobility development, especially public passenger transport, both rail and intercity bus.
Happy New Year, may it be a pleasant and sparkling 2023.
That we are stronger and more resistant to all challenges, that together we realize Melita Osojnik’s children’s song:
“We take the train, we have a good time,… We drive here and there, from Izola to Hodoš,…”.
Good luck, on behalf of the institute, Marko Savić
A modern view of urban spaces where significantly more space should be allocated to bicycles (again). It is not a question of which came first, the chicken or the egg, in terms of how to achieve a higher share of cycling. It’s about infrastructure, stupid, to paraphrase Bill Clinton’s famous slogan. Mikael Colville-Andersen writes very radically, but based on numbers, how to get to bicycle-friendly cities. Five out of five stars.
We published seven proposals for upgrading the railway infrastructure, extended core railway corridors, in Slovenia and border regions. Here are all seven, like the Seven Dwarfs from a fairy tale, upgrade suggestions.
The plans and proposals we created are directly linked to the plans of the trans-European transport network TEN_T.
The presented proposals connect all regions in Slovenia, from East to West, both within the country and back, as well as internationally. With train.
Strateško ozadje 11. predlogov nadgradnje železniškega omrežja v Sloveniji in obmejnih regijah (2. del).
Opisali smo koridor –Drava–Mura–Raba–Donava–, ki povezuje Podravino in Varaždinsko županijo na Hrvaškem, s Podravjem in Pomurjem v Sloveniji, ter prek Madžarske in Slovaške poteka do Bratislave.
Predlagani koridor se neposredno navezuje, in delno prekriva, saj prav tako poteka prek mejnega prehoda Središče, v prvem delu opisani koridor –Donava–Mura–Drava–Sava–, ki povezuje Dunaj in Zagreb in prav tako poteka po obstoječih progah v Sloveniji.
Wir haben die ersten beiden Vorschläge zur Modernisierung und Einbindung der fehlenden Teile in das Kernnetz TEN_V (Transeuropäisches Verkehrsnetz) beschrieben.
The first part of the background, in which we describe the first two of the four core and a total of eleven proposals for upgrading the railway network.
Simon Sinek is a well-known author who advocates that it is necessary to start with the answer to the question “why?”.
So why do we need a radical upgrade of the railway infrastructure in Slovenia? Three, mostly personal, not directly related stories.
Year in review. The 2021 of Mobilitatis Omni institute in the Letter of the Institute’s Director.
Cycling is one of the best solutions we already have to ensure our planet is habitable for all generations to come. We signed the Letter to governments at COP26.
Moving around during the COVID-19 outbreak. Recommendations by WHO Europe.
COVID-19 is a radical moment in so many ways. Will cities recover? Will private cars reduce or expand their dominance over public streets and spaces?
The corona pandemic has upended the transition to sustainable urban mobility around the world. While the fear of infection has put people off public transport and vehicle sharing schemes, it has boosted private cars, cycling and walking. What happens next hinges on the spread of the virus and how decision makers react.
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A new task force will be formed to explore “long-term and strategic changes” for mobility. This task force—Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme, or THE PEP—will “develop a set of principles for green and healthy sustainable mobility,”
The Radgona line Spielfeld Straß—Radgona—Ljutomer was built by the “South Railway Company” in two parts. The first part between Spielfeld Straß and Radgona was opened in 1885, the second to Ljutomer then in 1890. Ljutomer was initially the terminus of this line and had no connection with other lines until 1924, as during the time of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy it was not connected by rail either to Ormož or to the railway line — Hodoš — Murska Sobota [1907].
Mobilitatis Omni is an initiative that advocates for: + the restoration of the three missing links of the Mura and Drava line network; + establishment of long-distance cycling routes along these routes; renovation and upgrading of the existing cross-border Mura and Drava lines.
The golden age of railway construction in the Mura and Drava river regions took place between 1857 and 1924, mostly during the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. In the blog entry, we present six routes that made it possible for the regions of the Mura and Drava rivers to be better connected as far back as 1924 than they are today.
Murski železniški most je bil zgrajen kot del Radgonske železniške proge med Špiljami in Ljutomerom že davnega 1890-ega leta.
Zgodovinski mejniki kot most povezovanja. Železnica kot most do varnosti. Kulturna dediščina kot most razumevanja.
Šport, še posebej odbojka na mivki kot most povezovanja. Trajnostni turizem kot most do regionalnega razvoja. Regionalni razvoj kot most do stabilnosti Evropske unije.
Trajnostna mobilnost kot most v nizko-ogljično družbo. Regionalni železniški krog in križ kot most do povezav v centralno Evropo. Ključavnice na mostu za sklepanje ljubezni.
Pred skoraj 73. leti, 17. aprila 1945, je bil železniški most v Mitterlingu v bližini Bad Radkersburga oz. Gornje Radgone zminiran s strani nemške vojske, tako vsaj pravijo dostopni viri.
»Film Prevratno Prekmurje Zgodba o Vilmošu Tkalcu in Murski republiki je spodbudila tudi prekmurske filmarje. Pred tremi leti je bil premierno predvajan film z naslovom Murska republika 1919, ki je nastal v produkciji Zavoda Sončnica ter režiji in po scenariju Štefana Celeca. Rdeča nit filma je življenska pot Vilmoša Tkalca in dogajanja v pokrajini ob Muri po prvi svetovni vojni, ko je razpadel avstroogrski imperij.« (Sobotainfo.com)
»… še dolgo so mu oponašali, da je z očetovim denarjem podprl Žide ter predvsem tistega samooklicanega rdečkarja brez porekla in samooklicanega revolucionarja Vilmoša Tkalca, ki je prav od tukaj, z balkona hotela Dobray, 29. maja 1919 razglasil Prekmursko republiko…«
We launched an initiative to connect tourism and sports with the economy through infrastructure projects in Pomurje.
The key project of the initiative would be the bridge over the Mura river near Gornja Radgona/Bad Radkerburg and the upgrading of the existing line Gornja Radgona—Ljutomer.
You are invited to join the initiative. Contact us.