Increase in traffic finesPress service archives Starting from January 1, 2012, it will be possible to drive at a red light or a prohibiting gesture of a traffic controller for 1,000 rubles. Previously, the fine for such a violation was 700 rubles. Those who like to cross the stop line and wait for the green light at a pedestrian crossing will now have to pay 800 rubles for this habit for each violation. If, of course, there will be someone to fix it. However, since such a violation was not previously imposed with a fine, the traffic police have a chance to raise a lot of funds for the benefit of the state, especially in the capital region. Fighting traffic jams from January 1 will also be ruble. If earlier it cost only 100 rubles for leaving the intersection at which the traffic jam was formed (more often the drivers got off with a warning), now the driver who got up on his car across the road and created an obstacle to the movement of vehicles in the transverse direction will have to fork out for 1 thousand rubles. rubles. This is especially true in large cities, where the rule of not leaving the intersection, if a traffic jam has formed on it or immediately after it, is constantly violated. “We are sure that toughening this sanction should be an effective measure in the fight against traffic congestion. After all, a large number of traffic jams are now created precisely in such situations: the driver drove to a busy intersection and was forced to stop at it, thereby stopping the traffic flow in the transverse direction, "- ITAR-TASS quotes the words of the Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Traffic Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Major General of the Police Vladimir Kuzin. Also, from January 1, the fine for failure to comply with the traffic rules requirement to give way to a vehicle taking advantage of the intersection was increased from 100 to 1000 rubles. Often, it is the ignoring of the “Yield” signs that leads to serious traffic accidents in urban areas, in which pedestrians often suffer.
