DARS Management Tenders Resignation in Wake of Tunnel Fiasco

Ljubljana, 8 August - The five-member management board of the national motorway company, DARS, tendered its resignation to the government on Friday, taking part of responsibility for the incidents that have rendered the Sentvid motorway tunnel unfit for traffic.

Ljubljana Transport Minister Radovan Zerjav speaks to the press after inspecting the closed Sentvid tunnel. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

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Transport Minister Radovan Zerjav speaks to the press after inspecting the closed Sentvid tunnel.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana CEO of national motorway company DARS Tomislav Nemec (left) and Transport Minister Radovan Zerjav (centre) after inspecting the closed Sentvid tunnel. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

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CEO of national motorway company DARS Tomislav Nemec (left) and Transport Minister Radovan Zerjav (centre) after inspecting the closed Sentvid tunnel.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana CEO of national motorway company DARS Tomislav Nemec (left) and Transport Minister Radovan Zerjav (centre) after inspecting the closed Sentvid tunnel. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana
CEO of national motorway company DARS Tomislav Nemec (left) and Transport Minister Radovan Zerjav (centre) after inspecting the closed Sentvid tunnel.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana CEO of national motorway company DARS Tomislav Nemec (left) and Transport Minister Radovan Zerjav (centre) after inspecting the closed Sentvid tunnel. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana
CEO of national motorway company DARS Tomislav Nemec (left) and Transport Minister Radovan Zerjav (centre) after inspecting the closed Sentvid tunnel.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana Tomislav Nemec (right) and Bostjan Rigler of the national motorway company DARS after inspecting the closed Sentvid tunnel. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana
Tomislav Nemec (right) and Bostjan Rigler of the national motorway company DARS after inspecting the closed Sentvid tunnel.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana Construction workers removing fire-retardant plaster from the ceiling of the Sentvid tunnel. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana
Construction workers removing fire-retardant plaster from the ceiling of the Sentvid tunnel.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana Construction workers removing fire-retardant plaster from the ceiling of the Sentvid tunnel. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana
Construction workers removing fire-retardant plaster from the ceiling of the Sentvid tunnel.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

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