This article is about intersections. Or rather, about the “letters of happiness” that drivers “arrive” for offenses committed here. And specifically about punishments based on part 1 of art. 12.13 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for “driving into an intersection … in the event of a traffic jam that forced the driver to stop, creating an obstacle to the lateral movement of the vehicle.” The fine for this is now equal to 1000 rubles. In large cities, and especially in Moscow, local authorities and road police have long been using automatic cameras to record “crimes” under this article.
Most often, motorists are fined when their vehicles stop in the middle of the intersection of streets due to a traffic jam and a red traffic light flashes ahead of them. To make it easy for the camera to determine the boundaries of the intersection and the driver to understand where the “forbidden zone” is located, markings in the form of a yellow “waffle iron” are usually applied to the asphalt in such places.
In the SDA this is referred to as marker 1.26 – a “grid” of diagonally intersecting lines, bounded by a few solid lines of the same yellow color. At one time in Moscow, at quite a few crossroads, similar “arts” appeared. Moreover, both on those where congestion is common, and where traffic jams are extremely rare. And not everywhere the traffic police cameras check the wafer markings, by the way.
Drivers, seeing a yellow “waffle” on the sidewalk, try not to drive it for fear of fines, even though there are no fixation complexes in this place and never have been. It is possible that the lack of the expected number of fines from the “crossroad” cameras prompted authorities to “experiment boldly”. Recently, on part of the Moscow crossroads, the “waffle iron” was completely erased. And a double, solid yellow marker line was painted along the former borders. Like, here they are – the edges of the intersection, the citizens of the carrier, let them guide you. Anyone ‘hanging’ in traffic jams will be fined.
But the trick is that there is simply no yellow double continuous line of permanent marking in the traffic rules. And it is not surprising that drivers do not pay attention to it, drive (in the absence of the usual “waffle iron”) under the cameras monitoring the intersection and receive “letters of happiness” for 1000 rubles. And from the point of view of the law, they are punished correctly, you can not find fault.
But from a cleanliness point of view, the defiantly removing the road-legal markings maneuver seems like a sly invitation to transgress. Drive out, dear, to the crossroads, it’s okay if you don’t have time to pass it on your “green” – who doesn’t happen to you … And then bam – a fine. Very much in the spirit of bureaucracy, accustomed to “throwing over” millions of crazy rubles from motorists who naively continue to believe in the presence of common sense in “responsible jackets” of all calibers.
This article is about intersections. Or rather, about the “letters of happiness” that drivers “arrive” for offenses committed here. And specifically about punishments under Part 1 of Art. 12.13 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for “driving into an intersection … in the event of a traffic jam that forced the driver to stop, creating an obstacle to the lateral movement of the vehicle.” The fine for this is now 1000 rubles. In large cities, and especially in Moscow, local authorities and road police have long been using automatic cameras to record “crimes” under this article.
Most often, motorists are fined when their vehicles stop in the middle of the intersection of streets due to a traffic jam and a red traffic light flashes ahead of them. To make it easy for the camera to determine the boundaries of the intersection and the driver to understand where the “restricted zone” is located, markings in the form of a yellow “waffle iron” are usually applied to the asphalt in such places.
In the SDA this is referred to as marker 1.26 – a “grid” of diagonally intersecting lines, bounded by a few solid lines of the same yellow color. At one time in Moscow, at quite a few crossroads, similar “arts” appeared. Moreover, both on those where congestion is common, and where traffic jams are extremely rare. And not everywhere the traffic police cameras check the wafer markings, by the way.
Drivers, seeing a yellow “waffle” on the sidewalk, try not to drive it for fear of fines, even though there are no fixation complexes in this place and never have been. It is possible that the lack of the expected number of fines from the “crossroad” cameras prompted authorities to “experiment boldly”. Recently, on part of the Moscow crossroads, the “waffle iron” was completely erased. And a double, solid yellow marker line was painted along the former borders. Like, here they are – the edges of the intersection, the citizens of the carrier, let them guide you. Anyone ‘hanging’ in traffic jams will be fined.
But the trick is that there is simply no yellow double solid line of permanent marking in the traffic rules. And it is not surprising that drivers do not pay attention to it, drive (in the absence of the usual “waffle iron”) under the cameras monitoring the intersection and receive “letters of happiness” for 1000 rubles. And from the point of view of the law, they are punished correctly, you can not find fault.
But from a cleanliness point of view, the defiantly removing the road-legal markings maneuver seems like a sly invitation to transgress. Drive out, dear, to the crossroads, it’s okay if you don’t have time to pass it on your “green” – who doesn’t happen to you … And then bam – a fine. Very much in the spirit of bureaucracy, accustomed to “throwing over” millions of crazy rubles from motorists who naively continue to believe in the presence of common sense in “responsible jackets” of all calibers.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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