Cyclists are allowed to blithely continue texting, calling and appen

Posted on 20-05-2015 at 9:41 am by Dizono – 63 Comments”

According to minister Melanie Schult van Haegen.

In the ‘verzamelbrief road safety, the minister of Infrastructure and the Environment to the Second Room sent, let them know that they were not in favour of difficult to enforce regulations and there is the use of the mobile phone on the bike according to her. Due to the lack of figures on the consequences of calls, sms and appen on the bike, it has the minster also decided to have a by the room required ban.

On the basis of the data from the other European countries, then I see no reason for our rules to change. We in the Netherlands are seriously in to change behaviour in a positive way.

Instead of a ban, will the minister therefore encourage behavioural change. With providers KPN, T-Mobile, Vodafone and Ziggo, the ministry to the campaign ” Focus on the Road, where under the heading Fietsmodus a lot of attention will be for cyclists.

There come both in the spring and autumn actions to students to encourage the Fietsmodus to the use of prizes to be won. Also will the telecom providers themselves are soon to consider what they, in addition to contributing to the campaign, could still do more to responsible smartphone use.

Red crosses

Incidentally, reports by minister Schultz van Haegen in the same letter that cameras guidance, register cars or make use of afgekruisde carriageway is not legally feasible. Verification will thus only by police and specially competent BOA’s to be carried out. Since the beginning of this year you have after the violation and prevent the court sets the amount of the penalty.