A Bordeaux, les 30 km/h largement dépassés par tous
And the least we can say is that few people respect the 30 km / h in the 7 radarized places. So the pedagogy would not work? If we look at yesterday, Saturday December 10, 2022, by compiling the average speeds of the seven radars, we see that this average is always higher than the regulatory 30 km/h. Yesterday, the lowest average was 34.73 km/h at 11am.
If we break down by radar, we can see that rue Belleville, the average speed is lower than elsewhere and above all below 30 km/h. But, it’s an average and you can see peaks at 58 km/h on this street, almost double the limit. On this axis, 20.8% of vehicles still traveled 30 km/h.
133 km/h in the middle of the day!
On the other hand, the speed camera on rue Georges Mandel competes with that on boulevard Ludovic Trarieux for the palm of speed. That of the boulevard displays an average beyond 47 km / h at 5 am. 50% overshoot, and again, this is a measured speed. The speed on the clock is certainly 2 to 5 km/h higher.
And these are just averages! If we look at the detail of the speeds, we can see many beyond 50 km/h and even 3 beyond 100 km/h! There is even a 133 km/h at 1 p.m. Rue Jacques Nancy! Obviously, one can always imagine that it is a medical or police emergency. On yesterday’s dataset, with 27,956 entries, 76.8% of the vehicles whose speed was recorded were above 30 km/h.
Some will argue that the 30 km / h in town is “not tenable” (you have to return your license then). But the statistics are also quite bad here with 56.9% of drivers at 50 km/h or more. 20 km/h more in town, it is a considerable energy to disperse to avoid a pedestrian or a cyclist. The difference between minor injuries and serious or even fatal injuries.
Our opinion, by leblogauto.com
It could be interesting to have the data of a “real” speed camera which detects infractions to see if there is a change in driver behavior compared to an educational speed camera. Unless it’s a waste of time and drivers can’t drive at 30 km/h? It would also be interesting to have the data before the switch to generalized 30 km/h in Bordeaux on January 1, 2022 to see if this switch made people slow down or not.
In the meantime, these figures which concern Bordeaux should be available in the major cities of Metropolitan France. This would be really educational with an exhaustive analysis of the necessary data.
For those described by these datasets, they are available on Opendatasoft, here. Please note, the data is at D-1 and only that day.