Correspondents of “Сhronicles of Turkmenistan” report that the Ashgabat Road Traffic Department of the police has tightened control over compliance with road rules. Besides, Ashgabat residents received a text message obliging pedestrians to observe the road crossing rules and drivers to observe the speed limits.
The signs limiting the speed to 40-50 km/h are installed on many streets or parts of the roads.The drivers whose violations are recorded by radars receive a fine payment receipt.
If a fine is not paid within three day, police officers are given car registration number (the list of violators) which needs to be located and sent to a car impound in Choganly.
In their turn drivers complain about poor organization of the Road Traffic Department and problems with fine payment.
It is very challenging to pay a fine.You need to visit several officers where staff checks whether you have other violations or whether your car has undergone technical inspection etc.
No central recording system is in place and queues are formed in front of each office.After visiting all offices you have to return to the first one to join the queue where the staff says: “Now go to the bank to pay 10 manats for transporting the vehicle to a car impound”, – one of those who violator road safety rules said.
According to eye witnesses, car impounds in Choganly and Anev are filled with cars.
Let us recall that on 6 April President Serdar Berdymukhammedov held an extended Cabinet session, in the course of which he dismissed the Interior Minister Ovezdurdy Khodzhaniyazov.
The reason behind the decision was the violation of road traffic rules by Ashgabat drivers.During the session Prosecutor General Batyr Atdayev reported that over thirty violators had been detained and brought to justice for driving at speeds of 100 to 180 km/h.
Names and Registration numbers of those detained were provided.
According to sources of “Chronicles of Turkmenistan”, about two thirds of the detainees are friends or acquaintances of cousins of Serdar Berdymukhammedov (former President’s nephews).
The road patrol was organized at his initiative.The post Ashgabat residents receive text messages with a requirement to obey to road rules; police officers tightened control on the roads first appeared on Chronicles of Turkmenistan.