Step forward for speed cameras
Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos on Tuesday inspected the site on a busy Nicosia junction where the first four speed cameras are to be installed, as...
Speed cameras
Step closer for speed cameras
The first four mobile speed cameras out of a total of 120, including fixed ones, have recently arrived in Cyprus and are ready to be...
Cyprus’ two traffic cameras filmed over 87,000 speeding violations in five years
Cyprus’ only traffic cameras, operating on a small strip of Nicosia’s Grivas Digenis avenue, recorded over 87,500 traffic violations in five years, though only some...
Minister says traffic cameras pilot to be operational by 2020
News that the government is calling for tenders for the much anticipated, often delayed speed cameras was met with scepticism on Tuesday. Transport Minister Vasiliki...
‘Seat belts save lives,’ police plead after two more deaths
Police on Monday intensified their media awareness campaign on the importance of seat belts following another fatal road accident on Sunday that claimed the lives...
New model for introduction of speed cameras
The government has come up with a new model – the latest in a series – for introducing speed cameras, where the company to be...
Harsh penalties for driving offences not enough on their own – study
A study by the University of Cyprus law department into how to reduce road accidents concludes that extrajudicial penalties should be harsher but said this...
Desperately needed speed cameras on the way
Speed cameras reduce accidents by up to 30 per cent, but it has been a struggle to get them on the roads By Angelos Anastasiou...
Our View: Speed cameras should be a top priority
NICOSIA district court yesterday sentenced a young man to a year in prison for causing the death of another young man, three years ago, through...
Transport minister seeks speedy introduction of speed cameras
Transport minister Marios Demetriades said on Monday that speed cameras should be installed as soon as possible. Speaking after a meeting with the Road Safety...
Speed cameras on their way
THE GOVERNMENT plans to have speed cameras installed across the island next year, justice minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Thursday. The transport ministry is going...
Engomi mayor miffed over all-day speed cameras
By Evie Andreou SPEED cameras were installed to combat illegal car races at night and not to fine day time drivers, Engomi mayor Zacharias Kyriacou...
Over 5,000 speeding offences in first week
In their first week of operation, speed cameras on Grivas Dighenis Avenue in Nicosia recorded over 5,000 speeding drivers, police said on Tuesday. Police traffic...
Seventy plus violations in first hours of speed cameras
By Angelos Anastasiou A PAIR of speed cameras on Engomi’s Grivas Dhigenis avenue became officially operational and started recording violations at midnight on Sunday, with...
Test camera records 1,800 offences in 24 hours
Test recording of speed cameras set up on Grivas Dighenis Avenue clocked 1,800 traffic violations – 1,500 of which were speeding offences in the 24-hour...
Green light for speed cameras
By Constantinos Psillides SPEED cameras in Grivas Dhigenis Avenue in Nicosia will be officially operational on June 2, police said on Saturday. According to a...
Roadsters beware, cameras are back
By Constantinos Psillides TWO PAIRS of fixed speed cameras are being installed on the busy Grivas Dighenis Avenue in Nicosia, in an attempt to stop...
Revival of road cameras will be a private affair
By Constantinos Psillides A PRIVATE firm will be hired to install traffic and speed cameras throughout the island in 2015, according Communications and Works permanent...
Boy racers to face speed cameras and bumps on Griva Digeni
By Peter Stevenson POLICE will install two fixed speed cameras and build a pair of speed bumps on the capital’s busy Griva Digenis Avenue which...
Cameras to quell boy racers
By Stefanos Evripidou THE COMMUNICATIONS Ministry on Friday decided to place cameras on Griva Dhigenis Avenue in the Engomi area of Nicosia after years of...