Warsaw. Speed cameras at the Poniatowski Bridge: a quarter of drivers still drive too fast
Research conducted by the capital’s road construction workers shows that photo driving will be used on the bridge rather than in the suburbs. It’s just that still a quarter of them break the rules. The Mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, assessed that “it is not perfect, but the progress is enormous”.
The first speed cameras launched on the Poniatowski Bridge were launched in September. Initially, only three devices were switched in registration mode. The configuration has already outgrown five of the six speed cameras. The last speed camera went into registration mode on Tuesday at noon.
On Friday, the President of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, spoke about them. “It was said about the speed camera on the Poniatowski bridge. That they were standing in such a way that the situation, that he could not pass much, that he could not. he is just funny “- in short, in short, in a post on Facebook.
Ask for access to services by the Municipal Roads Authority on September 29, 24-hour traffic monitoring in the center. “I want to continue with similar research, which in 2018 and this year (when the radars are standing, but not even further), further progress is growing.), Of which 370, where it should be necessary to withdraw a driving license, because all passengers those close to 50 kilometers per hour fast. Setting up the radars definitely made traffic on the bridge more active, “wrote the president.
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He noted that it is still not perfect, but “the progress is colossal”: “The average speed on the bridge is now 44.5 kilometers per hour. by 20, 30 or 50 kilometers per hour, which was previously not sad – and very dangerous – to others.
“These yellow boxes are not aesthetically pleasing and putting them up is not the most appropriate version, but the question is whether or not it is the simplest. .
26 accidents in four years,
The Capital City Hall pointed out in the transport medium sent that the Chief Inspectorate of Road Transport, which was handed over in the photo program, in the first two “photographed” 28 drivers who traveled at the highest speed of over 100 kilometers per hour. The captured photo has yet to be verified (the example is not for an emergency service vehicle), but the implementation is now. In total, they took six thousand photos over ten times when they traveled faster than 50 kilometers per hour.
As the city hall also reported, the road towards the center is slightly faster – on average 45.16 kilometers per hour – and 43.85 pages per hour towards -. “Interestingly, driving towards Prague faster than 60 kilometers per hour (10 kilometers per hour more than the speed limit), to just 1.3 percent of all drivers heading in this direction, i.e. 249. Before the speed cameras, i.e. according to measurements from 2018 r., there were such drivers during the day … over 16.5 thousand! ” – emphasized the capital city officials.
Let us also remind you that in 2015-19 there were 26 road accidents on the Poniatowski Bridge during the 16 years of a call crash, there was an excessive speed. Three people died in them.
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