Speed ​​cameras – 80 km-h limit: how many signs should be changed? –

80 km / h limit: how many signs should be changed ?

Speed ​​cameras - 80 km-h limit: how many signs should be changed? -

How many road signs will need to be changed if the speed drops from 90 to 80 km / h on secondary roads? The Road Safety Department provides the answer in its document intended for prefects that the Journal moto du Net has obtained…. Hint: prepare the checkbooks !

According to the, the Road Safety Directorate estimates that around 40,000 road signs should be changed when changing the speed limit on the secondary network from 90 to 80 km / h.

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"Outside the agglomeration, the regulations on signaling do not impose an obligation to report the maximum authorized speed," however cautiously specifies the body attached to the Ministry of the Interior. Currently, the 90 panels are "about 20,000", estimates Road Safety, "mainly at the exit of an urban area, at the end of a limitation to 70 km / h, at the announcement of a radar and regularly after the insertion of significant road traffic (motorway exit ramps, bypass of towns or villages ".

"About 6 months" of work

But "in order to promote the acceptability and adoption of this regulation, the government wishes, if this measure is adopted, that additional signs be affixed, which could bring their total number to 40,000", indicate the officials of the Road safety.

At an average price of € 65 excluding tax per panel (from € 63 excluding tax at to € 69.90 excluding tax at), this represents a modest bill of 2.6 million euros for the taxpayer – which, it is true, is not more closely: it is barely more than seven flights (one way!) … Without counting the labor during the duration of the work that the government estimates at "about 6 months", the time "to count the panels 90, to change them, or even to cover them temporarily (which is authorized by the regulations) ".

Eric MICHEL

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