More than 600 two-way radars by 2016

Road Safety, which had proved to be excellent in an unexpected role of comic troop this summer – "the radars are placed on dangerous roads", then assured the body of the Ministry of the Interior in charge of cashing the money to ensure safety on the roads …

Road Safety, which had proved to be excellent in an unexpected role of comic troop this summer – "the radars are placed on dangerous roads", then assured the body of the Ministry of the Interior in charge. to collect change to ensure safety on the roads (read again) -, with the re-entry, finds a more conventional register by announcing the proliferation of two-way radars (read).

While the gray boxes scattered throughout the territory could so far only honor you from the front ("approaching, Cruchot") or from behind ("moving away, my commander"), the news will take you cheerfully in both directions – including when overtaking !

As shown in the diagram opposite, a single radar can now flash vehicle 1 on its lane but also vehicle A in the opposite direction, including when they take the opposite lane to overtake – which is good. known, must last as long as possible to be perfectly safe…

15,000 euros the two-way option

These two-way radars will be installed on roads where the speed limit is the same in both directions of traffic, where the adjacent lanes are not separated by barriers and outside an area marked on the ground by zebras, emphasizes Security annuitant road, specifying that "the total average cost of installing this function amounts to € 15,000 per radar".

Since yesterday, the first two-way radars (9 in Ain, 5 in Ardèche, 2 in Bouches-du-Rhône, 6 in Charente-Maritime, 7 in Gard, 7 in Haute-Garonne, 8 in Gironde, 3 in Herault, 6 in Ille-et-Vilaine, 7 in Isère, 8 in Loire-Atlantique, 7 in Morbihan, 12 in Oise, 3 in Pas-de-Calais, 2 in Haute-Savoie, 1 in Seine-Maritime, 4 in Seine-et-Marne, 2 in Var and 12 in Vendee) are no longer joking: after a test period "without any ticketing", they can now begin their real task of tax collectors road safety tool.

"From Monday, September 14, 2015, legal proceedings for speeding offenses identified by the 111 two-way devices will begin to be effective," warns the Ministry of the Interior, announcing that "200 fixed speed cameras will be equipped with two-way systems by the end of 2015 and 300 more will be in 2016 ”. But rest assured: "information panels are systematically installed on each of the axes controlled by two-way equipment, in each direction of traffic".

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