Over €4 million are about to be ploughed into a new speed control system in Portugal which will spy on traffic on every kind of road and in every district.
According to the public tender announced last week in Diário da República, SINCRO is designed to place Portugal among the Top 10 European countries when it comes to road safety.
The plan, claims Correio da Manhã newspaper, comes at a time when road safety in Portugal is improving anyway.
Even so, €4 million will go on the “acquisition, installation and maintenance of cabins, speed cameras and other technology in every borough and district”.
The nerve centre of the new system will be located in Tagus Park, Oeiras, and the first contract to be awarded will last for four years – with the lion’s share of payments being made this year.
The decision to launch the SINCRO tender followed a resolution by the Council of Ministers passed in December last year, writes CM.
“The objective of the government is to place Portugal among the 10 countries in Europe with the lowest incidence of road traffic accidents, assuming the ambition of turning the country into an example, sustainable through time, of the combat of road traffic accidents”.
CM pointed out that since December 2012 deaths on the roads due to accidents have dipped, as have the number of road traffic accidents – but at the same time, the serious injuries have increased, and this may have a lot to do with speed.
