Thirty-five new speed camera posts will be installed on the capital’s roads next year. Brussels Mobility Minister Elke Van den Brandt (Groen) has announced that. According to the minister, 30 poles have been ordered and received.

The installation of 17 to 20 radars is planned for 2023 based on the new radar plan. For the remaining poles, the sites will be analyzed and placed according to the opportunities. For the loop speed cameras (speeding and driving through a red light), five extra poles are planned to be installed, and two are to be relocated.

Speed displays at schools

Between 2021 and 2022, 28 poles for speed cameras only were placed (for 18 cameras) in the Brussels Region. According to Elke Van den Brandt, the reactivation of the speed camera in the Annie Cordy tunnel is planned for the spring, but for the time being, the mayor of Koekelberg, Ahmed Laaouej (PS), is opposed to it.

In addition, 26 new speed displays have been ordered, and 19 installed. With the new Road Safety Action Plan, the Region plans to place speed displays in front of all school approaches,

Finally, six or seven Lidar radars, installed in a movable grey box, are requested by the police zones each week. The last renewal of the contract was in 2022. The minister said a new contract will be launched at the beginning of 2023.

888 offenses per day

According to Brussels police figures, in the second quarter of 2022, it checked the speed of 9 758 387 drivers via fixed cameras, mobile speed cameras, and the LIDAR speed camera. Precisely 19 434 drivers were found not to respect the imposed speed limit. A further 6 137 drivers were caught at the section checks in the Hallepoort Tunnel and the Baljuw and Louise Tunnel.

In 2021, the six police zones in the Brussels Region recorded 324 303 speeding offenses, which amounts to 888 offenses per day. Currently, there are about 90 fixed-speed cameras on regional roads in the Brussels Region. Within three years, these will increase to about 150 on regional roads and the municipal road network.