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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/309287/1/.htmlTitle : About 600 motorists caught speeding every day since new KPE opened
Date : 02 November 2007 2143 hrs (SST)
URL : http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/309287/1/.html
SINGAPORE: About 600 motorists are caught speeding on the newly-opened Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) each day.
Cameras installed in the tunnel have captured 3,378 vehicles travelling above the speed limit of 70 kilometres per hour since it was opened a week ago.
The traffic police said this is cause for alarm because on average 10,000 speeding summons are issued in a month.
Many people do not know there are now digital speed cameras operating 24 hours a day in the tunnel. And many motorists are not fully aware that the speed limit in the tunnel is 70 kilometres per hour, not 90 kilometres per hour as in some expressways.
"In many countries, speeds in tunnels are always lower than (those) in open expressways. And in Mont Blanc where a serious accident happened before, the speed limit is now 50km/h, much lower than the 70km/h that we have in the KPE tunnel," said Land Transport Authority (LTA) Â’s transportation chief engineer Chin Kian Keong.
To guide motorists, the LTA has put up signages and road markings.
"The figures are high because motorists are in fact speeding. They are not travelling within the speed limit of 70 kilometres an hour. They may also not be aware that there are cameras operating 24/7Â… Our aim at the end of the day is to bring the number to zero," said Traffic PoliceÂ’s Deputy Superintendent Alvin Lee Fook Wing.
Those caught speeding in the KPE in its first week will receive advisory letters or summons over the next few days.
An average of 21,000 vehicles travelled in the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway tunnel on weekdays. And on the first weekend since it opened, the number jumped to 25,000.
The Land Transport Authority said traffic along the three-kilometre tunnel, which forms part of the 12-kilometre expressway, has been smooth-flowing. - CNA/ac