By Penelope Galliou

One week after the tragic accident in Tempi and the government is trying to restart the time that froze at midnight on February 28 and undertake those actions and interventions that will not allow “never again” as the prime minister himself pledged, to happen in the future.

Neural role, after assuming political responsibility and resignation of Kostas KaramanlisGiorgos Gerapetritis took over, moving with a specific government plan for immediate, quick, medium-term and medium-long-term interventions in the railways.

He is expected to present this framework today during the first press conference on the tragic accident, which is scheduled for 11 am and is expected to make important announcements.

With the government’s priority at the moment being to investigate every aspect of the accident and to clarify the causes of the accident, Giorgos Gerapetritis is expected to set the tone for the changes that will be launched and the interventions that will be promoted in the next period of time. The extraordinary measures expected to be presented by the Minister are expected to bring changes to the OSE.

According to information, Mr. Gerapetritis is expected to announce some emergency measures on train routes and in particular the possible suspension of passenger train traffic for a short period of time until additional safety safeguards are established and implemented on the railway.

instead commercial train traffic is expected to be unaffected while the changes are expected to affect the shift system of the Railway Organization as well as the efforts to speed up all those procedures in order to meet the schedule for the installation of safety systems by the Alstom company, as the relevant deadline expires in September.

On a second level, the Minister of State’s announcements are expected to be related to wider announcements of initiatives and interventions with the aim of upgrading the railway sector as a whole.

Yesterday after his return from Thessaloniki, Giorgos Gerapetritis was at Megaros Maximos where the priorities and goals of the government were reaffirmed while the procedural issues of the press conference were “sorted out”.

In the previous two days, the Minister of State, now responsible for transport and infrastructure issues, visited Larissa and Thessaloniki and visited the Remote Control Center of Thessaloniki, where Kyriakos Mitsotakis was scheduled to go the day after the accident. On Monday, Mr. Gerapetritis took part in a debriefing meeting in the region of Larissa, he visited the scene of the tragedy, the hospital of the Thessalian capital, while he also performed an autopsy at the city’s fatal station, where he spoke with the employees and station masters and heard everything the problems and pathogens that exist.

Under these conditions, tomorrow Thursday the Council of Ministers will also meet, with the main and exclusive topic of the developments after the Tempo tragedy. There, the prime minister is expected to give his stamp on any new initiatives, while Mr. Gerapetritis will inform the members of the government about what has been done and what is planned to be done in the near future.