The traffic police and the Ministry of Finance are in favor of lowering nestratova speed threshold, but for it to rise on highways

25 October 2019

The speed threshold without penalty want to reduce from 20 to 10 km/h and the speed limit on motorways, on the contrary, rises from 110 to 130 km/h

First Deputy Minister of transport of the Russian Federation Innokenty Alafinov told the media that the traffic police and the Ministry of transport supported the decline in nestratova high-speed limit up to 10 km/h from the current 20 km/h, but at the same time, advocating for higher speed limits on Federal highways.

He said, "Now we believe that from the point of view of road safety it is a step the right. But there is a very important caveat: while we are now together with the state-owned company (Russian highways – ed.) The Federal road Agency has fulfilled a complete list of Federal motorways, which may increase the speed by reducing the threshold... By and large, we with the traffic police for the purposes of the national project is supported, but that we are on Federal roads at the same time somewhere mode promotion."

In addition, the Deputy head of the Ministry of transport noted that nestrashnye speed limit 20 km/h initially appeared only due to the fact that the first system fotovideofiksatsii worked with "a large enough margin of error", but modern systems have become much more accurate.

According to Alafinova, now with the traffic police discussed increasing the maximum speed on highways from 110 to 130 km/h, but it "goes nowhere" when nestruev limit 20 km/h. At this time the possible implementation of a lower limit Alafinov did not specify, so as long as the theme "live" discussion with the public and GD.

PS proverb says snail travels when something. In this case, I would like that kind of "arrived" as late as possible.