Formentera.eco expands surveillance network with license plate reading cameras

The area of Mobility of Formentera continues to strengthen the resources of the system of regulation of entry of vehicles to the island with the installation of two new number plate reader cameras in Sant Ferran.

The Consell recalled that for the fifth year the Formentera.eco project is applied and “control has been improved with the installation of new cameras whose objective is to check that vehicles circulating on the island are properly accredited”.

Between June 1st and September 30th visitors’ motor vehicles that want to circulate on the roads and paths must first obtain an authorization for the period of time they want to circulate and which is subject to the payment of a fee of 6 euros per day, with a minimum of 30 euros for cars and half for motorcycles. Residents of the Balearic Islands must request the authorization but are exempt from paying the fee.

This year the Consell Insular has just installed two new license plate reading cameras in the joan Castelló Guasch Avenue and the second at universitat street (ring road), both in the town of Sant Ferran de ses Roques.

These control cameras are in addition to those already installed last year at the traffic circle of the Hospital and those existing since the beginning of the regulation, in 2019, in the street of Almadrava de la Savina.

The places chosen for the installation of these cameras are at the entrance and exit of the port of La Savina and in places of much passage of vehicles. In addition, a vehicle of the Consell, 100% electric and easily identifiable, has two cameras installed and will circulate around the island, also on secondary roads, with the same objective of detecting the presence of vehicles circulating without authorization.

1.000 euros fine

The Formentera.eco is the result of the practical application of the ‘Law 7/2019, of February 8, for the environmental and economic sustainability of the Island of Formentera’, approved by the Balearic Parliament and fully in force. The aforementioned law foresees sanctions of, at least, 1,000 euros for vehicles circulating without a license.

In fact last year, from the beginning of the regulation, which started on June 15, until mid-August, more than 1,800 sanctions were imposed on vehicle owners for driving on the island’s roads without the required authorization.