In July 2009, we wrote that drivers were speeding excessively on the road out of Bolesławiec toward Łaziska. In August—following our intervention—employees of the District Roads Authority in Bolesławiec moved the “end of built-up area” sign. “It took them 6 minutes,” a reader who asked us to publicize the matter said at the time. “And I had been fighting for this change for two years.”
Why did residents of Kosiby Street have to wait so long? “That is not a question for us, but for lawmakers,” explained Joanna Jarocka, spokesperson for Dolnośląska Służba Dróg i Kolei, the road authority. “It could not have taken less time; those are the procedures,” she added.
To further improve the safety of families living near Kosiby Street, in April this year the Bolesławiec city authorities asked DSDIK for permission to install a speed camera there. Funds for this task had already been allocated in the city budget. However, it turned out that the project would not go ahead. In response to a letter from the urban municipality, Jan Maćkała, acting head of the Roads Department at DSDIK, wrote:
Due to the lack of implementing regulations for the Act of October 29, 2010 [...] and certain other acts, specifying how stationary speed-recording devices are to be located and how they are to be marked, as of today it is not possible to issue a location decision [podkreślenie – red.] or determine the conditions for installing and marking stationary speed-recording devices (speed cameras) on urban roads.
“Once again, the lack of some regulation makes it impossible to carry out a sensible project,” comments Mayor Piotr Roman. We will return to the matter.
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