All of the Brussels Region’s seven high-tech Lidar speed cameras will be out of service for a period of four to five weeks, Brussels Mobility reports.
These cameras, which operate with the help of an infrared laser, are not broken, but rather deactivated due to the termination of a contract with private company Securoad.
Brussels Mobility stresses that this does not mean that “speeders will have a free run” of the city. A new public contract will soon come into force and the cameras will be reactivated.
“The call for tenders for a new public contract is underway,” Steven Fierens, communications attaché at Brussels Mobility, told Belga News Agency.” He estimates that they will be operational again in “four to five weeks” but stated that he is unable to give a “precise date” for their reactivation.
“The check will continue, the other ‘normal’ radars are still in service, and the police controls are also a good weapon against speeders,” he added.
Last year, a record number of speeding tickets were handed out in Belgium. In 2022, there were almost a third more tickets issued than the year before.
