OREANDA-NEWS. The State Duma Committee on Transport has prepared a bill proposing to limit the use of traffic cameras on Russian roads. This is reported by the newspaper "Kommersant".

The amendments, if adopted, will affect the law “On highways and road activities”.

The bill states that cameras can be installed in places selected after a traffic safety audit, and on emergency sections of roads. It is expected that the complexes can be resorted to at dedicated lanes, intersections, at road construction sites, in no-parking zones and at pedestrian crossings at any accident rate.

Mobile cameras are proposed to be installed for a certain period, for example, until the termination of the circumstances that caused them to be used” (in particular, until the completion of road works).

Consent to install the camera must be provided by the owner of the road, the regional ministry of transport or the local transport committee, as well as the traffic police, the bill states.

Previously, the amount of fines imposed with the help of traffic cameras was named. Last year, the traffic police collected 100 billion rubles in fines with the help of traffic cameras. Writes about this "Kommersant".

It is reported that more than 160 million decisions were issued in total. A third of citizens were fined in the Moscow region - 41 billion rubles.

It is noted that only half of this amount of fines has been paid.

Penalties from cameras are growing not because of an increase in the number of violations by drivers, but because of modern algorithms and neural network technologies, said Petr Shkumatov, coordinator of the Blue Buckets movement. He noted that new technologies help to identify more violations.