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re: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/309287/1/.html
Title : 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) 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 24/7
Our aim at the end of the day is to bring the number to zero," said
Traffic Polices 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
