Traffic Cameras for Causeway in January
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Traffic cameras for Causeway in January
The Second Link will also be covered under the plan to help nab traffic offenders with unpaid fines
MALACCA - Cameras will be installed at the Johor Causeway and the Second Link from January to track all vehicles entering and leaving the country.
The director-general of the Road Transport Department, Datuk Dr Mohamed Shahar Sidek, said yesterday that the plan was part of the RM2.9-million (S$1.37-million) Automatic Vehicle Screening System to be introduced in the country.
It will be installed initially at the exit and entry points of Johor. Later, it will be extended to other points along the Malaysian border.
'Information needed on any particular vehicle captured by the cameras will be obtained from the road transport departments of the neighbouring countries - Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore with which Malaysia shares land frontiers,' he said.
Dr Shahar said the vehicles would also be caught on camera as they left the country.
Those found to have committed traffic offences while in Malaysia would be stopped and asked to settle the summonses.
He said the cameras would also help police and Customs officials to identify vehicles involved in criminal activities.
He said the system would not disrupt the smooth flow of traffic but would, in fact, reduce the number of outstanding summonses involving foreign vehicles.
Malaysia has been trying to crack down on errant motorists from Singapore, Thailand and Brunei for unpaid traffic fines.
Earlier this month, Dr Shahar had said that summonses would be issued immediately for any traffic violation - before motorists were allowed to leave the country.
'This will ensure fair treatment of locals as drivers from foreign countries would be subject to the same consequences when they violate our laws,' he said.
Deputy Home Minister Datuk Chor Chee Heung has said that foreign vehicles account for RM130,000 in unpaid summonses every year.
The majority of the cases involved Singapore-registered vehicles. The gahment is considering blacklisting these vehicles and banning them from entering the country.
He said the local police, with the help of their Singapore counterparts, had tracked down the vehicle owners and written to them to pay up their summonses.
However, not many had responded, he said.
'Of course the good ones, they come forward to settle, but most of them don't give a damn, because they always feel that once they are back in their country they are safe,' he said. -- Bernama -
Like that means
cannot speed there liao ah? -
still can lah, but dun get caught lor.Originally posted by GAME OVER:Like that means cannot speed there liao ah? 
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traffic camera.. nt speed camera..
means u can speed.. but dun get caught..
caught liao muz pay summon nia mahz...
aiya... anyway.. guess many ppl here noe wat to do if u ever get caught lor..
hiak hiak hiak
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Bloody hell.. copy our OCR system in our checkpoints.