From July 1, 2012, drivers will expect new changes in the tariff scale of fines for traffic violations and innovations in the operation of vehicles. Fines for car owners in Moscow and St. Petersburg will increase significantly, and the regions will be able to independently regulate this issue in some situations.
First of all, measures against illegal tinting of windshield and front side auto windows will be toughened. From July 1, the light transmittance must be at least 75% for the windshield and 70% for the side windows. The traffic police inspectors can determine the light transmittance with a special device. If the norm does not comply with GOST, the car owner will be fined 500 rubles and the license plates will be removed. Within a day, the car owner must remove the illegal tinting, pay the fine and come to get the license plates. If he did not manage to do this, he will face punishment under the article for operating a vehicle without registration plates.
Most of the controversy among motorists was caused by new amendments to the traffic rules on parking rules. Now fines for parking in the wrong place (contrary to signs and road markings) will have to pay 3000 rubles in Moscow St. Petersburg and 1500 in other regions of Russia. In this case, the car left in this way is forcibly transported to the fine parking lot. However, this service will remain free only for Muscovites. In the regions, an additional fee will be charged for this. Similar measures await those who decide to leave their car at a pedestrian crossing or closer than 5 meters to it; at a public transport stop and tram lines. Now you can stop in the second row only if absolutely necessary. Otherwise - all the same 3000 rubles and forced evacuation.
It will not be easy now for those who like to bypass traffic jams on dedicated lanes for public transport. Now, for such recklessness, you can lose three thousand rubles in two capitals, and one and a half thousand in the regions. And if we take into account that all the allocated lanes are equipped with video fixers, it can be assumed that such a fine will become the most popular in the coming days.
Violations of traffic rules in the residential area have also undergone significant changes in the tariff scale. Now driving through the courtyards at high speed can deprive the car owner in the region of 1,500 rubles, and Muscovites and St. Petersburg residents - all the same 3,000.
