Phuket To Get Speed And Traffic Cameras

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Phuket to get speed and traffic cameras

Police will get some much needed help with monitoring the roads.

PHUKET: -- The Phuket Provincial Administration Organization will spend 17 million baht on installing speed and traffic cameras to catch people running red lights in Phuket.

“The cameras will not be of the same type used in a project launched recently in Bangkok. [With this type] we will know who exceeds the speed limit and who breaks traffic laws – and tickets will be sent the the drivers’ houses later,” explained Phuket Provincial Police Commander Pekad Tantipong.

“I believe [drivers] will stop speeding and the number of road accidents will fall,” he added.

Maj Gen Pekad said the Phuket Highways Office was currently planning to make safety upgrades at 12 “blackspots” by October, at a cost of 9 million baht.

A further 85mn baht will be used on improving 38 other black spots during the coming fiscal year, starting October 1.

Among the locations slated for upgrades is the hilly section of Phra Barami Road from Kathu to Patong.

Also, flashing warning lights will be installed at Kuan Yang curve, in front of Wat Suwankeereewong (Patong Temple), and a median strip will be installed along Wiset Rd from Chalong Circle and Rawai Beach – as reported earlier by the Phuket Gazette.

The news came at the same August 11 meeting at Provincial Hall where Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha announced that the 94 million baht will be spent on fixing 50 road accident “blackspots” across the island.

The project will see more traffic islands, traffic lights, street lights, signs, adjustments to traffic lanes, road surface repairs, additional shoulders and speed bumps among other measures to help curb the high accident rates at the hot spots around the island.

The project is part of a national campaign initiated by the previous government and commenced on April 1 under the supervision of a committee headed by Phuket Provincial Police, Gov Tri said.

Phuket’s road accident rate was among the nation’s worst 10 provinces, with 249 road accidents resulting in 15 deaths and 11 people seriously injured in July alone, Gov Tri said.

The accidents were caused by poor driving, the breaking of traffic laws as well as poor-quality roads, he added.

Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2011/article10878.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2011-08-26

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Time to leave.

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Time to leave.

No need to leave.

Pattaya has a speed camera for nearly a year during which time I have seen it used not more than half dozen times.

It was gone for months and last Tuesday I noticed it again installed on RR-7 pointing outbound from Pattaya while the police roadblock was on the inbound lanes to Pattaya stopping vehicles that came flying up the incline from under the overpass. Several of the speeding vehicles they flagged over presumably just gave them the finger, never slowing down or stopping because they just continued on speeding towards Pattaya. Imaging doing that in the developed world. No need to jump on the Thais bandwagon because I see just as many farangs pulling the same stunt. Like the Brit who lost his Driver License for 5-year in the UK, so the company send him on a 5-year contract to their factory in Thailand. Now he has a Thai driver license, he told the Thai DMV he never had a driver license in England.

They also have a Radar Gun showing the speed a vehicle is traveling. Last time I did see it used was couple years ago located in the back of a van with the tailgate open and the Radar Gun pointing at the oncoming vehicles, further down the road was the road block. Since then never seen it used again.

All these items are just play toys and money making for some one’s grandmother owning the business that imports these toys who needs some money.

They don’t want to use these tools because it crimps their rake-off style.

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so if they cant catch a driver who has been in a crash with his number plate, how are they going to catch speeding drivers ect?, wht about all the non registered cars and hire cars?