Roads in Taipei City that suffer from a lot of vehicle accidents will have more speed cameras installed in an attempt to reduce traffic accidents, the city government said yesterday.
Over the next four weeks, Taipei City Police Department’s traffic police division will relocate speed cameras to the four places with the most vehicle accidents: the intersections of Zhongzheng Road and Jihe Road, Minquan W Road and Yanping N Road, Dadu Road and Daye Road, and along Chengde Road. More cameras will later be set up at other intersections.
The four cameras were originally set up at intersections with fewer traffic accidents, and relocating the cameras would help reduce the number of car accidents at these dangerous intersections, director of the division, Dennis Huang (黃勢清), said yesterday at police department headquarters.
The division will also place new speed cameras at the intersections between Wende Road and Chenggong Road, Civil Boulevard and Zhongnan Street, Songshou Road and Keelung Road, and on Section 1 of Neihu Road, he said.
For other locations in the top 10 most dangerous spots, which include Section 4 of Zhongxiao E Road and Linsen N Road, the division will dispatch more traffic police to crack down on speeding and other illegal driving activities, until more cameras can be installed, he added.
Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) said the purpose of the cameras was to reduce traffic accidents, not to swell city government coffers through the collection of fines.
“Locations with a large number of traffic accidents are priority spots for installing cameras. Hopefully drivers will pay extra attention when driving in these areas because of the cameras. Giving traffic tickets and collecting fines is not the purpose,” he said.
Statistics from the traffic police division showed that the city government issued over 50,000 traffic tickets last year. There are 131 roadside speed cameras in the city, including 76 radar speed cameras along roads and 55 cameras at traffic lights.
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