Paphos Life

Kili01 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:18 pm At present it seems as if the increase in motoring fines which was announced recently is not having the desired effect. I wonder how many motorists will actually pay their fines?
I did notice that at Paps supermarket this morning that for a change no one had parked in their 3 disabled parking slots. Hope that this continues so that disabled drivers or those having a disabled passenger will be able to use them.

Dee

Paulo wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:18 am I have also had several traffic violations over the years (not for a long time though) and I usually pay them quite promptly.
I was travelling through Paphos Airport, a couple of years ago, when I was stopped at passport control and taken to one side. I was informed that I had two outstanding traffic violations dating as far back as 2007, one of these I have no recollection of and the other one I thought I had paid (apparently I was given 2 penalties at the same time and had only paid one of them). In the meantime these had both been to court and accumulated a total balance of €1200!
It was made very clear to me that if I wanted to leave the country I would have to pay this in full, if not I would be arrested and taken to Paphos police station and held until I could appear in court on Monday morning (it was Saturday). As you can imagine I paid up!
My point is, if you don’t pay the fines they will catch up with you eventually and it can turn out to be very expensive.

What’s strange is I usually fly out of Larnaca several times a year and it was only when I tried to fly out of Paphos that I was stopped???

Kili01 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:34 pm WHL, and Paulo, thanks for explaining how the system here works if people omit to pay their motoring fines. I've only had the odd parking ticket here and always go to pay it within a week or so... so was not aware of the way that motoring fines stack up if unpaid

But I seem to remember that when Cyprus had its first trial with the use of fixed speed cameras that was later abandoned, there was talk about a huge volume of unpaid speeding fines... does anyone else remember this?

Dee

mike strand2 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:48 pm
I remember an instance not long ago where a single camera was catching far too may exceeding the 50kph, that the limit was raised to 65kph!

WHL wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:34 pm

Kili01 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:18 pm At present it seems as if the increase in motoring fines which was announced recently is not having the desired effect. I wonder how many motorists will actually pay their fines?
I did notice that at Paps supermarket this morning that for a change no one had parked in their 3 disabled parking slots. Hope that this continues so that disabled drivers or those having a disabled passenger will be able to use them.

Dee

Why do you keep on about how many people will pay their fines?
I can tell you, as someone who has had their fair share of motoring fines, the vast majority will pay up.
The longer you don't pay the fines, they will be increased, and if you still don't pay a big hairy policeman will be knocking on your door with a summons for court , it happened to me