Watch your speed ...

[Janet]

"Watch your speed" is good general advice, of course, but it is particularly necessary over the next week because Tráfico is carrying out a campaign to highlight the role speed plays in accidents and in deaths on the roads. The campaign, being carried out in conjunction with local police, will be targeted at information ... and control. There'll be checkpoints and patrols, so watch your speed ... JA

[Michael]

I was just wondering, the Canarian government is skint.

Many Canarians drive like complete arseholes.

Why have they not introduced a few speed cameras?

Jeez, they'd make a clean fortune. Especially if they were hidden. 

[Janet]

they've got a few ... on the motorways, but I'm told they can't afford to run them ...

On the other hand, there are stories of people being fined ...

Usual conflict of information, and I've never felt overly inclined to investigate the truth because I don't have too much sympathy for people getting caught for driving offences ...

[Nova]

I pay several fines every day.  Mostly speeding fines of 200 > 100 euros, some seatbelt, indicating or flashing other drivers fines of 100>50 and 80>40 and a couple of times a week I see drink-drving fines off 500>250 euros.  The Guardia are always active somewhere in the local area 

[Marion]

I pay several fines every day.  Mostly speeding fines of 200 > 100 euros, some seatbelt, indicating or flashing other drivers fines of 100>50 and 80>40 and a couple of times a week I see drink-drving fines off 500>250 euros.  The Guardia are always active somewhere in the local area 

You must be a terrible driver Nova if you have to pay fines like that every day!   

[Nova]

Do you know what, I was waiting for something like that 

[NAH]

So it's true then.....indicating on roads in Tenerife is an offence for which you can be fined 

[Janet]

well, it depends on what sort of indicating Nova means, because driving regs require drivers to indicate for overtaking, or even when changing lane in a motorway.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Then why are indicator lights optional on all the cars?

[Michael]

they've got a few ... on the motorways, but I'm told they can't afford to run them ...

On the other hand, there are stories of people being fined ...

Usual conflict of information, and I've never felt overly inclined to investigate the truth because I don't have too much sympathy for people getting caught for driving offences ...

Seems like rather a false economy. 

Do you know what, I was waiting for something like that 

She beat me to it.