Cities and departments could soon be authorized to install automatic speed cameras, which is currently reserved for the State. The League for the Defense of Drivers, which fears an increase in speed cameras for financial purposes, has launched a petition against this project.
The National Assembly Law Commission is currently studying the 3DS bill (differentiation, decentralization, deconcentration and simplification), adopted and extensively amended by the Senate on July 21. The text, submitted to parliamentarians by the Government in an accelerated procedure, provides in Article 10 of allow municipalities, metropolitan areas and departments to install automatic radars within their perimeter. This prerogative is currently exclusive to the State. Several voices are raised against this possible development, the modalities of which remain to be defined.
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Where would the PV money go?
Communities that want to equip themselves with radars will have to put their hands in their pockets, or the greatest vagueness remains regarding the redistribution of the amount of VPs since nothing is said about it in the bill. ” It seems appropriate that the methods of distributing the revenues relating to these controls are also defined by decree in the Council of State, in order to allow the local authorities and their groups to benefit from all or part of the revenues. “, Demanded several senators Les Républicains (LR) through an amendment. However, this was withdrawn at the request of Jacqueline Gourault, Minister of Territorial Cohesion, who considers that ” it is the responsibility of the finance law Also under review.
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A petition against radars managed by cities
If cities effectively had control over their automatic radars and their revenues, one could fear a proliferation of control devices. Especially since this would follow the recent lowering of the speed limit to 30 km / h in several municipalities with, in some cases, an explosion in the number of HP. The League for the Defense of Drivers has put online a petition opposition to article 10 of the 3DS law. ” This will be the start of a proliferation of radars in the city, unrelated to safety, intensifying the bludgeoning of drivers beyond the bearable.s ”, can we read above the form to be completed. As of this writing, the petition has collected over 29,000 signatures.
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The security aspect added by amendment
The League is not alone in fearing an installation of radars decorrelated from road safety issues. An amendment submitted by the rapporteurs of the text to the Senate Mathieu Darnaud (LR) and Françoise Gatel (Union Centriste), demanding the approval of the prefect and the ” consultation of the departmental road safety commission, on the basis of an accident study on the road sections concerned Before the installation of radar, was adopted. It also stipulates that the findings of offenses detected by these radars must be treated in the same way as those which depend on the State. The deputies must vote on the 3DS law before the end of the year.
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