The new signs did not go unnoticed last December on the Ile de Ré. “Radar checks over 28km”, warns one of these signs, posted on the two main axes of the island, the RD735 (north route) and on the RD201 (south route). They signal the upcoming installation of five “turret radars” on the island. An arrival that does not delight local elected officials, to say the least. Mayors who believe in the first place to have been faced with a fait accompli. As for the Rïs, many consider this installation “useless”.
These radars were the subject of a “favorable opinion” of the departmental council in 2017, recalls the prefect Nicolas Basselier in a letter to local elected officials, whom France Bleu was able to consult. Mail which gives above all a calendar: these five radars will not work not before the end of the year 2022. Before that, field visits will be carried out in January, to define the locations, which will be definitively validated before the summer. The actual installation will take place in “September-October 2022”, for commissioning “late 2022-early 2023”.
– Jean-Baptiste Marie
The roads of France, “among the most accident-prone in Charente-Maritime”
The roads are “among the most accident-prone in the Charente-Maritime department (first for the number of fatalities and second in terms of accidents and accidents and hospitalized injuries)” further specifies the prefect, with 43 bodily accidents, 12 dead and 35 injured hospitalized between 2010 and 2018.
Concretely, these five turret radars (out of nine initially planned) will not work at the same time, but alternately. Only one will be activated over a given time. “The user does not know at which precise point of the course it can be controlled, this leads to a better respect of the maximum authorized speed” assures the prefect.