The Argentinean Government is pushing ahead with a radical restructuring plan for its road transport system. This is seeing the National Road Directorate (Vialidad Nacional), National Commission for Transport Regulation (CNRT), National Highway Directorate (DNV) and the National Road Safety Agency being dissolved in their present form.
The bodies will be reorganised and be merged into the new Agency for Control of Concessions and Public Transport Services, part of a plan to privatise 9,000km of roads across the country. Argentina’s Ministry of Economy will assume the responsibility for the study, construction, and maintenance of national roads. The National Gendarmerie meanwhile will have responsibility for enforcement of traffic laws on national routes and highways.
The DNV has been focussed on ensuring efficient and safe transport on strategic corridors and main roads across Argentina, with a supervisory role for the network. However, Argentina’s Union of Road Workers and Related Workers (STVyARA) has said that dissolving the DNV risks increasing dangers on Argentina’s road network and losing the progress that has been made by Argentina in recent years on cutting road casualty rates.