ALICANTE drivers will need a steady right foot this winter as the DGT traffic authority prepares to switch on three more speed cameras across the province.
That makes nine new cameras in Alicante this year.
The first of the new ones will cover a 6.5km stretch of the A-31 between Alicante and Monforte del Cid. It will check Madrid-bound traffic from opposite the Las Atalayas industrial estate (km 232.5) to just before the AP-7 junction at the Aspe-La Alcoraya exit (km 226).
Building work is done and the number-plate cameras will be fitted in the coming days, ready for a switch-on at the end of the month.
A second section camera, covering almost 3km of the CV-725 into Denia from the AP-7, has been delayed. It was due this month, but last week the central government’s office in Alicante said installation had been pushed back.
No new date has been set.
A conventional camera will also go live in the coming months at km 7.8 of the CV-740 between Javea and Benitachell.
All three are signposted, and drivers caught speeding in the first month will only get warning letters. After that, fines will follow.
Average-speed cameras have operated in Spain since 2010 but only reached Alicante in February, when three went live.
Two are on the A-31, and the third on the A-7 between Elche Sur and Crevillent, heading towards Alicante.
Instead of clocking a car at a single point, the system reads each number plate as it enters and leaves the stretch and calculates the average speed between the two. Braking hard at the camera and speeding up again no longer works.
When the first cameras went live, Alicante’s traffic department said anyone caught over the limit has “without question been doing so continuously.”
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