Only 12 cameras on bus lanes and 17 on Attiki Odos are working at the moment. The first of the 1,388 will be installed in the summer, the Minister of Digital Governance Dimitris Papastergiou emphasized to SKAI 100.3, referring to the government plan for the installation of traffic cameras, policing and citizens’ safety that he presented on Thursday morning with the co-competent ministers of Infrastructure and Transport and Citizen Protection.

“The citizen will be informed by a message on his cell phone that he is being checked for a violation, before the call is digitally confirmed and he will have the option of filing an electronic complaint,” he noted.

Dimitris Papastergiou explained that with the current legislation the license plate is recorded, but now we are going to check and correct the legislation so that it can also record the driver, not neighboring vehicles, not co-drivers, something that already applies in Europe, and it is crucial to be done. The legislation will be resolved in the next period, today this is not foreseen, but it is not prohibited either, that is why all over Europe the calls will now come personalized to the driver.

Private contractors will be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the cameras, while they will only be paid for those that work, the minister clarified.

It is a single effective operating system that when the violation is committed you will be informed by a message on the mobile phone that you are being controlled. The current ones record only red, the new ones will have a much more expanded possibility, explained Mr. Papastergiou.

The call will go to the citizen’s inbox, emphasized the Minister of Digital Governance.

He also announced that in a few days, in the first phase, the identity of the firefighters will be included in the wallet, in order to satisfy a long-standing demand that is imperatively put forward by the uniformed.