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Berlin Rules Out New Speed Cameras for 2025

City prioritizes modernizing existing enforcement technology despite rising traffic violations and fatalities.

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Overview

  • Berlin's interior administration announced no budget allocation for additional speed cameras in 2025.
  • Efforts will focus on updating and renewing the city’s existing fleet of 46 stationary and 83 mobile speed monitoring devices.
  • Traffic violations increased to over 1 million in 2024, with fines generating €33.4 million in revenue.
  • Traffic fatalities rose from 33 in 2023 to 55 in 2024, disproportionately affecting vulnerable road users.
  • Critics, including Grünen-Fraktion's Antje Kapek, argue that the lack of new cameras undermines road safety efforts.