The Paris inaugurated the first today noise detection radar as part of a plan to impose fines on noisy motorcycles and other vehicles in one of Europe’s busiest cities.
Mounted high on one street lamp in the 20th arrondissement of eastern Paris, the first noise detection radar in the French capital will measure the level noise pollution from passing vehicles and will record license plates.
“High noise pollution makes people sick. “For health and quality of life… this first noise detection radar is intended to automatically impose fines on vehicles that make a lot of noise,” Paris Deputy Mayor David Beyard wrote in a Twitter post.
In the coming months, the French capital will examine whether this radar can clearly identify the license plates of noisy motorcycles and cars and then the equipment should receive official approval from the authorities by the end of 2022.
No fines will be imposed at this time, something Paris has been planning since early 2023, as the government installs more noise detection radars in other French cities and tests procedures to automate fines under a 2019 mobility law. .
Under current law, authorities can already impose sanctions on owners of noisy vehicles, but police need to have the necessary equipment and arrest drivers on the spot. The new system will work like speed tracking radars, with automatic fines.
“The problem is that the police often have other things to do,” said Fanny Mietliski, head of Bruitparif, which has developed noise-detection radar technology.
Similar radars have already been installed in the Ile-de-France region, on the outskirts of Paris, in Nice and Lyon since the end of January.
A second noise detection radar is scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, in the western part of Paris.
According to a December 2021 survey by Money.co.uk, based on data from the European Environment Agency, Paris was one of the busiest cities in Europe with 5.5 million people exposed to noise pollution exceeding 55 decibels by road. traffic, compared with 2.6 million in London and 1.7 million in Vienna and Rome.
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