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In Vilnius, the campaign takes place near the Seimas, in Klaipėda, Marijampolė and Šiauliai – near the municipality, in Panevėžys – near the Office of the Government Representative.
The main demand of the protesters is to renew the practical driving tests in the “Regitra” and to allow driving schools to organize driving classes.
Understand instantly
- The practical driving lessons at the driving schools and Regitra will not take place from mid-December due to the tightening of the quarantine.
- Regitra representatives say that during the first quarantine they redesigned their cars and installed additional partitions. Thus, instructors are prepared to take practical driving tests safely (theory tests have not been interrupted).
- Driving schools have limited their activities since 2020. October, after the announcement of the second quarantine, when it was not entirely clear whether training could continue. Because at first it was not clarified what the state of driving schools is: non-formal education, service providers, etc. So since October. Due to the precarious situation, the driving schools worked at 30 percent. capacity.
- Regitra currently has a queue of approximately 11,000 people waiting for a driving test. Both examinations the company was able to carry out in one month.
According to the picket organizers Neringa Pekarskaja and Arnoldas Žaltovskis, it is not correct to allow beauty entertainment companies to work, but to prohibit driving instruction when direct contact is avoided (cars with partitions, teachers and inspectors with masks). All the more so since so far no cases have been identified in which, say, a Regitra instructor has hired the examinee.
Photo by Žilvinas Pekarskas / 15min photo / Protest against the “Regitra” closed
Exam preparation is weak
Artūras Pakėnas, Head of Amplius LT Driving School, warns that some students who passed the theory exam did not have the opportunity to improve their driving skills for 3-4 months, so first of all, the conditions must be created to upgrade driving skills. . And only then allows you to take the exam in the “Registry”. Traveling alone with family members (not everyone has that opportunity) is not enough. Also, last winter was really thankless for individual lessons.
“I can see in practice that only about 20-30% study with family members. Students. Therefore, only a small part will be properly prepared for the practical exam. It is also important that skills have to be constantly improved, and such long breaks are definitely not beneficial, ”commented Artūras Pak comentónas.
According to the Minister of the Interior, Agnė Bilotaitė, a proposal to renew driving tests was presented to the government in February. However, this issue is not yet on the agenda.
Driving practice tests suspended until March 31.
According to the government-approved quarantine mitigation plan, practical driver training and driving tests and driver training would resume when the coronavirus incidence rate fell below 200 new infections per 100,000. population within two weeks, and the proportion of positive tests would not be more than 10 percent. So far, this figure is 250.
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