Security. Parking control, traffic violations: the turn of the screw of Toulouse town hall
Through Gabriel Kenedi
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It’s a turn of the screw that the municipal majority is preparing to give to Toulouse regarding parking and traffic violations. Several decisions were taken in this direction Friday, October 22, 2021, during the municipal Council. Details.
Parking control: LAPI cars will disembark
While 70% of Toulouse residents still do not pay for parking when they park in one of the 16,300 paid spaces in the Pink City, the town hall has decided to take action by acquiring “4 to 5 cars” equipped with an LAPI system (automatic reading of license plates), which will disembark “In the first half of 2022” to automatically check whether motorists have paid for their parking where it has to be paid for. Amount of investment? It is valued at around 200,000 euros.
They record while driving
Equipped with cameras linked by a tablet, these vehicles are able to record license plate numbers continuously while driving. The system will then verify that the controlled license plate has been recorded in the parking meter and that the parking has been adjusted.
“The challenge is to promote the turnover rate, and to allow people to park more easily where the resident subscription is set up. Verbalization in fine will be done with discernment by a person, who will validate the post-parking package ”, indicated Emilion Esnault, deputy mayor in charge of security.
As for the agents of surveillance of the public highway (ASVP), they will see their missions “diversified”. “They will be able to spend more time in the blue zones, to enforce the turnover rate on these free but regulated places”, argues Emilion Esnault.
“Promote the turnover rate”
The ambition is that these LAPI vehicles control ” at least once a day “ all paid places in the city. “The challenge is to promote the turnover rate, and to allow people to park more easily where the resident subscription is set up,” added Emilion Esnault.
Will there be a parking payment rate target after this measure is put in place? “I don’t want to set a rate! », Specifies Jean-Luc Moudenc. “That would mean that we admit incivism! It would be extremely dangerous to reason like that. The goal is for us to be as efficient as possible. If we arrive at a rate of 100%, I will be delighted ”.
Traffic offenses: video-verbalization
Another decision adopted by the municipal council:” extension of video-verbalization, which until now was reserved only for the city center perimeter. Since its implementation, 11,000 motorists guilty of “inconvenient” or “very inconvenient” parking have been penalized.
By November 2021, the video-verbalization will be extended to the whole city and will not only be used to sanction inconvenient parking but also other traffic violations.
Extended video over-tagging
Emilion Esnault explains: “On traffic violations, we are going to extend video-verbalization to the whole city. Within a few days, we will be able to make video-verbalization on all the fixed cameras in the city, if the need arises. This concerns annoying and very inconvenient parking on cycle paths, on sidewalks, on the entrances to emergency passages, but also crossing white lines, vehicles driving in bus lanes, prohibited directions grilled or taken away. wrong… ”.
Sanction wedding processions
Commentary will video-verbalization be used? On an ad hoc and targeted basis, we assure Toulouse city hall:
“It is one more tool that can make it possible to impose fines in the event of rodeos, an additional tool to sanction wedding processions which emits a little discord before and after the wedding on the Capitol. The idea is not to video over-tag everywhere, all the time, but to give oneself the possibility in certain places, at certain times, of video-verbalizing, to go through one-off missions ”.
The municipal pound will expand
Despite a first extension of 100 places carried out in 2016, the municipal pound, which now has 572 places, is in a permanent saturation situation. In the future, 300 to 350 additional places will be created, a budget of 6 million euros.
“This will reduce the delays that we can have for the removal of cars in a situation of excessive parking and it will also make it possible to develop more strongly public policies in terms of the fight against inconvenient and very inconvenient parking” explained Emilion Esnault last June. While an extension of the pre-existing site seems impossible, the town hall is therefore looking for a new place to carry out this expansion project.
This development consists of creating a dismantling park for vehicles intended for destruction, or operational support within the framework of very large events. All daily activity, for users, stay on the main site ”.
This Friday, the project reached a new stage since in municipal council, the City of Toulouse asked Toulouse Métropole to ensure the project management of this development, the municipality of Toulouse does not have “no public contracts allowing to carry out these adjustments within the timeframe compatible with the general objectives of the project ”.
Public drunkenness: an invoice of 120 euros instituted
Another measure adopted by the municipal council concerns the transport by the municipal police of drunk people on public roads. If they are transported to the hospital and to the sobering-up cell by the police, the latter will henceforth have to reimburse the transport costs.
While each year, in Toulouse, the municipal police question between 250 and 300 severely intoxicated people on the public highway, the municipality adopted a deliberation allowing the municipal police to “charge drunken people transported by the municipal police for the amount of their transport and their support up to 120 euros”. A measure that has already been taken in many cities in France.
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