The Ministry of Public Security is due to publish the list of the 60 new digital speed and traffic light cameras today. However, only 12 cameras will be operational at their Sunday debut. The ministry does not intend to announce which 12 of the 60 cameras will be operating, however, "Globes" has learned from other sources which cameras will be activated.
Nine more cameras will become operational over the next two months, and all 60 are supposed to be operating by the end of the year.
Even through the new A3 speed and traffic light cameras are not yet operating, government officials are already fighting over the loot. Sources inform ''Globes'' that the National Traffic Safety Authority is asking for a budget supplement from the traffic fines, and the Israel Police's traffic unit wants the money too. The organizations want the proceeds from fines to partly finance the heavy cost of the new system and its deployment.
Meanwhile, Or Yarok Association for Safer Driving in Israel executive director Shmuel Aboav today asked that part of the proceeds from fines to be channeled to road safety.
The location of the first 12 cameras are as follows:
- Two speed cameras on Road 4 (Geha), one facing north between Benyamina and Or Akiva, and the other at the northern entrance to Hadera.
- Two speed cameras on Road 65 (Hadera-Afula), one west of Kafr Kara and the other between Ar'Ara and Um el-Fahm.
Traffic light cameras, which will also catch speeders, will be located at the Acre Junction, Ahihud Junction, Evlayim Junction, and Hanna Junction in the Western Galilee; at the Morasha Junction (Road 4 and Road 5, outside Tel Aviv); on Road 44 at the Hashiva Junction and at the Beit Dagan Junction outside Rishon LeZion; and at the Givati Junction on Road 35 between Ashkelon and Kiryat Gat.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on February 1, 2012
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