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Minister of Transport Caspar Brisken (P) The Minister admitted in an interview that he hoped to gain support from the delegates for the proposal to impose fines from the first kilometer exceeding the maximum permissible speed.
The minister reminded that the proposal to impose fines from the first kilometer per hour exceeded had been rejected once, and then again from the fifth kilometer per hour exceeded.
“The Latvian study is now complete. I have not lost confidence and the deputies are still ready to make responsible, data-based decisions. We have told you before that warnings and penalties have an impact on the average speed of the traffic system, and the average speed poses risks to the entire transport system”, the Minister stressed.
He pointed out that even if speed is not the only or main factor in road traffic accidents, it is always a factor that makes the consequences of accidents more serious, which has been proven by all causal correlation studies in the world.
“We were told in Saeima – no, these are already international studies, everything is different in Latvia, people will react with exaggeration, some will slow down traffic, which will create new unforeseen risks. Even the head of the Latvian Legal Council used such reasoning. Now, the Riga Technical University study proves that the same assumptions that have been proven internationally apply in Latvia,” added Briskens.
He said the ministry was also considering road infrastructure, regulation, driving culture and driver skills, as well as the technical condition of cars. “It’s a very complex system. But there are things we can’t do right now. We can’t rebuild all motorways as four-lane or at least three-lane motorways. What we can do now is to take over the practice of another European Motorway Association (EU) member state and penalize the first illegal kilometer,” the minister said.
The minister added that in this case it was about two penalty units, recalling that one penalty unit is 5 euros, a level that has not been revised since 2014.
“I’m sorry, but for many people a ten-euro fine is like a sneeze. That’s why I’m even ready to introduce a progressive penalty system. Yes, currently there is no general income declaration system in Latvia, but maybe we can discuss linking it to the value of the car, so that the rich spend more,” Brisken added.
He also mentioned that the ministry wants to triple the infrastructure of average speed radars in Latvia, as in these areas a more even flow of people can be observed and the distance between cars more controllable.
“But currently the radar does not warn of violations within ten kilometres per hour. To make the radar work over its entire range, we think the fine should be imposed from the first kilometre of the violation,” the minister said.
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