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Norway’s first falm is in place.
Watch the video above: This “smart” solution will make life miserable for those who like to hit the gas pedal hard.
The automated solution has been tested in Sweden for several years and now reaches western Norway and the city between the seven mountains, Bergen.
– They have tested this for ten years in Sweden, and no damage to cars or bicycles has ever been reported, says the communications consultant in the department of infrastructure and roads in the Vestland county municipality Silje Christine Alvsaker to Nettavisen.
Fallemen, which is a speed bump, is called Actibump. The system has been developed and tested in Sweden, and the idea with the system is that law-abiding drivers will not notice anything, while those who do not comply with the speed limit should have such an unpleasant experience that they do not do it next time.
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– Fortunately, most people keep the speed limit, but those who drive too fast will receive a clear alarm and will remember this until next time, Senior Engineer in Vestland County Municipality Trond Hollekim tells Nettavisen.
Nattlandsveien
It is thus in Bergen where the first fall of the country arrives, and more specifically it will be located in Nattlandsveien, which has an area of 40. The road is also an important access route to the center of Bergen. According to Dinside, the road is busy with 11,200 cars a day.
– It is a pilot project that we will evaluate in the first half of 2021. The reason why we are testing this in Nattlandsveien is that it is a very complex road with all kinds of road users in the form of cyclists, pedestrians, motorists and buses says Hollekim. .
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– Buses are also not happy with speed bumps and speed platforms where there are bike lanes. So we want to test this solution here, he adds.
Hollekim also hopes that the Bergen experiences will be positive, so that more places will test this solution in the future. The new Bergen system has an estimated price of around half a million crowns.
Six centimeters
The new installation consists of one limb, and if you choose to drive too fast, a hatch will open in the road and your tires will touch a steel rim. The deceased are monitored by a radar that measures the speed of the car.
– Feels like a clear hit. It goes down six inches and the tires meet a rounded edge. We are not aware of the reported injuries, so it is just an unpleasant experience for the driver, says Hollekim.
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Dinside writes that the experience from Sweden shows that rough driving decreased considerably after downers were installed in various places in the country, and that it should be good for emergency vehicles to pass over downed ones. The same is confirmed by the Vestland County Municipality.
“If there is a patient on board an ambulance, the driver must take it into account in the same way if there had been a pothole. There is a transponder solution, but so far no one has used it in Sweden or Australia. By summer 2021, an application for emergency services will be ready for use. In the app, the limb can be deactivated, “states the Vestland County Municipality in a letter sent to Nettavisen.
See what happens when the ambulance passes over the limb:
– Interested in experiences
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration will monitor what emerges from the pilot project.
– We are aware of this and assume that Vestland County can make such an attempt on its own road as it is a county road. However, we are interested in the Bergen experiences, press manager Kjell Solem tells Nettavisen.
And he claims that the Norwegian Public Roads Administration is “on the sidelines” and not a higher authority.
– This is a measure that assumes that there are streets at low speed. Therefore, it is not strange that the county municipalities manage this themselves. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration does not have these roads. We do not “rotate” according to a set of national rules here, but we view the project in Bergen in a positive light, says Solem.
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