Moldova is negotiating a new grant of US$10 million for extending the video-based traffic monitoring system on the national roads with the Government of China. Head of the Traffic Monitoring and Control Center of the Interior Ministry’s Information Technology Service Dan Chirita told a news conference that owing to such a grant another 50 intersections in the country could be monitored through surveillance cameras, IPN reports.
According to Dan Chirita, the Interior Ministry aims to place surveillance cameras on all the national roads by 2016. The Traffic Monitoring and Control Center will propose new technologies aimed at making the drivers more responsible. The equipment will be able to determine the average speed on certain road segments. The new systems will be set up first on the roads witnessing the largest number of traffic accidents.
After surveillance cameras were installed at intersections, the number of cases of passing at the red color of the traffic lights and of ignoring road signs reduced, but of fines imposed for speeding increased. The highest vehicle speed was fixed by the surveillance cameras from the Chisinau viaduct – 185 km/h.
In February – September this year, the surveillance cameras recorded over 85,000 violations of the traffic rules. Since July 12, the drivers penalized for the violations committed in traffic paid fines of 20 million lei. Among the fined drivers are 200 public servants.
About 3,000 traffic rule violations are recorded daily in Chisinau. Most of the violations are committed in Buiucani district of Chisinau, where surveillance cameras haven’t been yet installed. Earlier, Botanica was considered the ‘district of death’, but now, following the setting up of surveillance cameras, it ranks last by the number of road accidents.
