“I just got out of the house and I’m getting amended by police in reflective vests, allegedly because I did not stop myself before someone who was close to the pedestrian crossing. I think it is a bit abused … “This father waits before the painful school, nervous, seeing time turn: he must quickly take his son to school and then spinning at work. It’s 8 am on Monday of the school year. Ordinary life resumes, and with bad habits.
“Good day and be careful on the road,” says a policeman after he handed a fine of 140 francs for non-compliance to pedestrians. This is the fourth time that the agent released his book in minutes, including a mother driving without a safety vest or a vehicle parked on a pedestrian crossing.
The school year was coupled with an output of the traffic police. A bike and rollerblading, a swarm of agents with their visible fluorescent yellow vest with reflective tape were first made prevention and cracked if they saw offenses. “A conductor has abused the horn because she found that the cars before they were not going fast enough,” says another official.
The police action is not always well perceived. A van is penalized for no stopping on a yellow line reducing visibility to approaching a pedestrian crossing. “My husband stopped two seconds to kiss me and he is verbalizing. You find that normal?” said a mom on the edge of hysteria. Another, very quiet, denounced the establishment of the zone 30 in the area that was accompanied by the removal of pedestrian crossings … Road safety is a poem!
Patrick PULH, new chief of traffic police department knows it. “In September, the year of peak stress for families, parents arriving by car, motorbike or bicycle to school by doing a little anything sometimes: they phone, eat, ride on sidewalks, etc. They first think of their child, but not to others. We do not hunt the offense, but we do prevention. Each school year is elsewhere. Only this year, the strategy has changed. “Instead of staying outside the hotel, the police patrol visibly with reflective band on the clothing on the way to school in a wider area. There are also mobile speed cameras. “This big operation will target a different scope of the right bank and left bank until Wednesday. It will be repeated randomly throughout the year, not necessarily after the holidays.