Cameras to monitor trucks near school gates

Now, some municipalities already have charters that prohibit heavy traffic from driving past schools during the busiest hours. But the police don’t have enough people to check that. Cameras and higher fines must now provide a solution.

The heavy freight traffic to and from Meulebeke comes through a diversion along the center of Tielt. Also along the school gates.

“In recent months we have seen an increase to 2600 freight movements per day, past those four schools, right through our historic city center. That is very unsafe for the children. We have a primary school here, a kindergarten. Here at this point we see that pedestrians and cyclists are forced onto the roadway and have to share the road with heavy truck traffic,” it sounds.

This morning the committee approved a bill from Vooruit to install cameras in school districts.