The deactivation of the radars of the school environments during the nights and the holidays has its advance this month of August. As it is considered a holiday month, radars limited to 30 km/h raise their allowed threshold to 50 km/h from today.
As of the month of September, and during the rest of the year, the twelve radars installed in school environments on streets considered main will have the limit of 30 km/h established from Monday to Saturday from seven in the morning to ten at night. On the other hand, during the night, on Sundays and on public holidays all day it will go up to the maximum speed of 50 km/h allowed on these urban roads.
This is one of the first decisions on mobility made by the new municipal government after the arrival of Jaume Collboni to the mayor’s office. Although the Mobility portfolio was in the hands of Laia Bonet in the previous term and continues to be so now, the City Council decided to back down from the controversy caused by the radars that force them to apply the brakes on roads where drivers are accustomed to going to higher speed.
The cinemometers have already been reprogrammed so that they do not sanction from this August 1st. Now the holiday period will also be used to modify the current signage in the twelve affected school environments, so that the new rules of the game with double speed allowed depending on the time are clear as of next September 1. It will specifically affect certain points around schools and institutes on Balmes, Numància, Enteça, Muntaner, Pau Claris, Mallorca, Sardenya, Indústria, Sant Antoni Maria Claret and Travessera de Gràcia streets.
Apart from these radars, during the month of July 12 of the new 28 educational radars were installed that will be put into operation in the coming months. In these cases they will warn of speeding but will not fine.