Posted on 27 June, 2023
Residents and visitors of Rotterdam are familiar with the phenomenon when the weather is nice: unnecessarily accelerating cars and motorcycles, ignoring speed limits, strolling traffic, noise from blasting exhausts and loud music.
Residents and visitors of Rotterdam are familiar with the phenomenon when the weather is nice: unnecessarily accelerating cars and motorcycles, ignoring speed limits, cruise traffic, noise from blasting exhausts and loud music.
In many places in the city, Rotterdam has to deal with a group of traffic asocials who repeatedly display this behaviour. This has major consequences for quality of life and road safety. Rotterdammers are massively annoyed by the behavior of these administrators.
Rotterdam Traffic Saso Approach
Since 2021, the municipality, police and the Public Prosecution Service have started a summer offensive against anti-social behavior in traffic. A joint attempt has been made to tackle the problem by means of control actions by the police, interventions in the outdoor area, technology (such as speed cameras) and communication.
Valuable experiences of recent years form input for the Rotterdamse Verkeersaso Approach. Where measures for the short and long term are distinguished. This is just the beginning, interim monitoring and adjustments ensure continuous development. Together we make a fist against traffic asocials and we get to the front of the problem!
The Municipality of Rotterdam will be launching many new actions from this summer:
- Fine for 'unnecessary noise nuisance' for, for example, accelerating unnecessarily hard, tuned cars with banging exhausts and loud music. Fine: € 280!
- Municipal enforcers hold targeted actions in streets where there is a lot of nuisance. Enforcers observe, report and impose the order subject to periodic penalty payments.
- Setting up a special enforcement team 'traffic safety team' that enforces traffic anti-social behaviour.
- Impose neighborhood and area bans on traffic permits
- Talk to car rental companies to ensure that traffic operators who make repeated mistakes are no longer able to rent cars.
- Noise monitoring using sound meters
We install sound meters at various locations for the Municipality of Rotterdam. This allows the municipality to monitor noise nuisance and, in collaboration with the Enforcement Traffic Aso team and the police, to determine more specifically which locations and time periods are eligible for enforcement.
The sound meters can be fitted with a matrix board on which the perpetrator is alerted to the nuisance caused and the amount of the fine.
Various municipalities will also use this method of monitoring traffic noise, just like the Rotterdam approach.
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