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Police have announced some fairly bad news for errant drivers on Dubai’s highways: radar traps will now be installed one kilometre intervals on roads and highways around the emirate.
Currently, radar traps are typically placed at four kilometre intervals but police say they’ve been so effective that they now want to install hundreds more to curb speeding, pick up seatbelt violations and monitor the space between cars and lane discipline.
Major Saif Muhair Al Mazroui, acting Director of General Department of Traffic, Dubai Police, told local newspaper Khaleej Times: ‘‘We have plans to increase the number of radars. In the past, we installed a radar every four kilometres, but soon we will fix a radar every kilometre after we noticed that some motorists slow down when they notice them and then speed away.”
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Police also used unmarked patrol cars to monitor behaviour on the road.
Mazroui said that police had noted a drop in the annual road toll since introducing radar cameras: from 332 in 2007 to 224 in 2009. There were no fatalities on Jumeirah Road, once considered one of the most dangerous roads in the emirate, last year.
Mazroui said an awareness campaign for labourers would be launched next week to make them aware of the new initiatives.
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Sounds like an excellent idea, let's hope it picks up the morons that overtake using the central reservation at ridiculo