The Public Prosecution Service has started replacing and moving fixed speed cameras in the east of Brabant. It is the start of a major renovation operation, in which the majority of the five hundred fixed speed cameras throughout the Netherlands will be replaced over the next year and a half. Renovation of speed cameras has also started in The Hague and Rotterdam.
The current speed cameras are now a few years old and need to be replaced. According to the Public Prosecution Service, the new cameras have the latest technology and can monitor multiple lanes at the same time.
In some places they are now being removed because people no longer drive too fast. About a hundred speed cameras in the Netherlands are therefore changing locations.
The Public Prosecution Service has yet to determine the new locations. “The traffic situation is being looked at, how busy it is, how often people drive too fast and whether there are other ways to reduce the speed,” prosecutor Ivy Obadagbonyi told the newspaper. NOS.
One of the speed cameras that has already been renovated is located on Gijzenrooiseweg in Geldrop. It is one of the places where the speed camera simply remains. Last year, 8,000 speeders were caught here and more than 150 people ran red lights. According to the Public Prosecution Service, such figures show that control in this area is still desperately needed.
Checking for texting behind the wheel
The number of speed cameras must be increased to 650 throughout the country in three years. They check for speed and driving through red lights. There will be fifty additional cameras that check for texting behind the wheel.
There will also be more flex filters, which will be in a different location every few months. Since November last year, mobile speed cameras have been installed along roads, including in Brabant. In Bergen op Zoom, 350 speeding drivers were fined in two months.
Hoping for more speed cameras
More speed cameras do not mean that the entire country will soon be full, the Public Prosecution Service says. “We really look at where the greatest risks are for road safety and where they are therefore most needed.”
One of the municipalities that fervently hopes for a speed camera is Tilburg. Councilor Rik Grashoff would even like to have several, for example along the Ringbaan-Zuid. “We have repeatedly had major hits here in recent years and also some fatal accidents,” Grashoff told NOS.
According to him, people regularly drive much faster than the 70 kilometers per hour that is allowed. “We definitely want to get rid of that and a speed camera is a good way to do that.”
‘Race for the worst situation’
Several applications from the municipality of Tilburg for speed cameras were rejected by the Public Prosecution Service. “There are only a limited number of speed cameras available in the Netherlands, so it is a kind of race where the situation is the very, very worst. That is not how I would like to deal with road safety.”
These speed cameras in Brabant flashed most often in 2022.