Nelson Mandela Bay motorists can expect to see an increase in speed trap camera's on the Metro's roads this year.
That's according to the metro's head of Safety and Security, John Best, who was speaking at the a media briefing on Monday, on the successes and challenges of the 2016 Summer Season campaign.
Best revealed that the metro has applied to the Directorate of Public Prosecutors for permission to double the number of speed traps.
"Previously we had fixed cameras in ten spots in Port Elizabeth, we put them all over and now we have ordered some more. We are definitely going to increase that. It's not to fine people it's to curb deaths on the road. So we look at the high spot accident roads and we actually do it there" he said.
He said the municipality also increased the number of road blocks and traffic fines.
Best also added that the National Public Prosecutor Authority increased traffic fines three years ago however the metro is still the cheapest in the country.
He said if you exceed more than 30 km within a suburban area and more than 40 km's in an open road it's a 'no admission of guilt', therefore you will have to appear in the municipality court where they will set the fine amount.
"If you get a fine of R1000 then that means in a 60 km/h area you must have been doing about 89 km/h and that is the standard. So it does work on a scale business, it starts low on R250 and it does increase" Best said.
Meanwhile, Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has halved the number of road fatalities in the Metro during the 2016 festive season.
Executive Mayor, Athol Trollip said there were only five reported road fatalities compared to ten in 2015.
He said some of the successes include also zero drownings on all the beaches, issuing of more than 61 000 speeding tickets and 300 000 visitors on the metro's beaches.
Trollip also added that one of the main challenges the muncipality faced was the consumption of alcohol on beaches despite it's zero tolerance approach.
He said this challenge will be one of the key focus areas this year.
"Now what we need to understand is that there is still an enormous challenge to change that culture where people go and consume alcohol there. It's not the consumption, it's the abuse and the anti-social behaviour that goes with it that infringes other people's rights. I am confident that as we improve the facilities and have regulation about consumption of alcohol that we can change that culture" Trollip said.
