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“Evil Trap” – 2850 cars flash here in a week
At the main construction site in front of the entrance to the Wolff motorway in Basel, a speed-monitoring camera has caused many drivers to rage. The police should better sign a speed limit.
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A speed camera in front of the Gellert motorway in Basel causes red heads. Reducing speed is not enough landmark for many motorists and drivers.
20 minutes / Lukas Hausendorf
Despite a police press release about the speed camera and the situation at the large construction site in front of the Wolf Autobahn entrance, some 2,800 cars were flashed in a week.
20 minutes / Lukas Hausendorf
The flashing numbers of police cars show that word of the speed camera has circulated through the media release and most people are now familiar with speed reduction.
20 minutes / Jonas Gott
That’s what it’s about
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In Basel, the mobile radar system is causing red faces among drivers.
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At the entrance to the Wolf Autobahn, the speed is temporarily reduced to 30 km/h due to a construction site.
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Although the police publicly warn about the speed limit, the system flashes hundreds of drivers every day.
A mobile speed camera has been causing red heads in Basel at the entrance to the Wolf Autobahn for two weeks. In order to increase the safety of construction workers on a large construction site, the speed has been temporarily reduced from 50km/h to 30km/h. Basel-Stadt cantonal police In a media release Beware of the speed limit. “We wouldn’t do it otherwise,” police spokesman Stefan Schmidt confirms. The cantonal police set up the mobile radar system after several grazing collisions occurred as a result of a change in traffic management due to the construction site. Since February 20, the flash has been used there in unison.
According to the cantonal police, 2,850 cars flashed between February 20 and 28. A clear decrease can be seen. Where about 1,050 vehicles passed the system very quickly in the first two days, there were only 750 new cars flashing in the next three days. The number has steadily decreased to 450 overspeed vehicles on February 28th. Speed cam has bypassed the media version and now most of them are aware of speed reduction.
It’s always a cash cow. If you flash at 11 to 15 km/h in residential areas, you have to pay 250 francs. Even by a conservative estimate, the tin policeman brought in the annual salaries of more than one police officer in a week.
“Policemen wash their hands of innocence.”
As you know 20 minutes in, several of the drivers who were shown phoned the police because they didn’t know why they had fallen into the trap. Not everything is in Basel. Dozens of callers reported to the bus control center of the Basel-Landschaft police force. “The Tempo 30 signal is not enough,” says one of those affected. And he comes to the end: “This is an evil trap.” Especially if you drive from there in the dark in the evening, you will never notice.
“It’s not about paying a fine now or maybe even giving up my driver’s license,” says the reader. With the press release and minimal signage, the police are “innocently washing their hands” and deliberately letting people drive at a nasty 30 speed limit, where they’ll then blink, he says exasperated. “If you want to better protect construction workers, you have to improve signaling.”
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