| Inspectors will be fined for low speed The capital's main highways will soon be equipped with radars. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov promised this the other day during a friendly visit to the authorities of Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea. According to him, “all capital highways will be equipped with special electronics, with the help of which it will be possible to measure the average speed of vehicles.” “I have already given this task,” the mayor clarified. The first routes along which radars will be installed will be the Garden Ring, Leninsky, Kutuzovsky, Volgogradsky prospects.
As the prime minister of the capital's government noted, the main goal of the technical innovation is to relieve the city of many kilometers of traffic jams, and the indirect goal is to control the quality of the work of traffic police inspectors. “We need to avoid situations where a traffic jam occurs only because, due to a small accident, two cars are standing across the road and waiting for three hours for traffic cops,” explained Yuri Luzhkov. The mayor decided to make the salary of the capital's inspectors directly dependent on the average speed of cars on the roads. “If the speed is good, high, and constantly increases, then the assessment of the work of the traffic police inspectors will be positive; if the speed is low or constantly decreases, then a decrease in salary is possible, and perhaps personnel decisions in management,” said He.
The initiative of Yuri Luzhkov equally upset both traffic police and motorists. It is obvious that in Moscow, which is oversaturated with vehicles, it is almost impossible to solve congestion problems through a team approach. Road accidents are just a small part of the reasons that impede free movement.
Car owners are afraid that the traffic police will mainly use new devices against those who like to drive around Moscow like a breeze. Anna ShPAK |
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