{"id":21819,"date":"2014-05-15T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T09:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=21819"},"modified":"2014-05-15T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T09:27:27","slug":"welcome-to-cyprus-traffic-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/15\/welcome-to-cyprus-traffic-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Cyprus traffic violations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cyprus Mail<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n

OVER 2,000 traffic violations were recorded last weekend by two fixed speed cameras installed on Grivas Dhigenis avenue in Nicosia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just give it a minute to sink in. Two thousand violations. In only two days. Recorded by only two fixed cameras (fixed means people know where and when they are). \u00a0These numbers are mind-blowing. \u00a0And yet what does the police decide? \u00a0Here’s what:<\/p>\n

Deputy head of the Electromechanical Services Department (ESD) Loucas Timotheou said that no one would be prosecuted or fined, for now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think this basically explains the attitude towards the traffic laws. \u00a0Furthermore:<\/p>\n

Timotheou told the Cyprus Mail that the weekend traffic violations caught by the cameras could add up to \u20ac100,000 in fines. “Of course, it\u2019s not about the money. It\u2019s about protecting people and making drivers obey traffic laws,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two things that catch my attention here are:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0Isn’t Cyprus trying to survive a bad economy, scrubbing for money everywhere? Why 100K in two days is completely ignored?<\/li>\n
  2. How exactly<\/strong> are you protecting people by recording videos of violators and not issuing<\/strong> fines?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

    Cyprus Mail reports: OVER 2,000 traffic violations were recorded last weekend by two fixed speed cameras installed on Grivas Dhigenis avenue in Nicosia. Just give it a minute to sink in. Two thousand violations. In only two days. Recorded by only two fixed cameras (fixed means people know where and when they are). \u00a0These numbers … Continue reading Welcome to Cyprus traffic violations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22,106],"tags":[2250,27,577,196,2459],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-21819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","category-nicosia","tag-crime","tag-driving","tag-law","tag-police","tag-traffic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8307,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/07\/fooling-traffic-cameras\/","url_meta":{"origin":21819,"position":0},"title":"Fooling traffic cameras","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 7, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"With Cyprus police promising to install traffic cameras in the near future, few people I know started to worry that antiradars won't be working anymore and that speeding will have to become a part of history. 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