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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Works and Transport has announced that it has suspended the automated Express Penalty System (EPS Auto), “following a comprehensive review.”
Minister Gen Katumba Wamala will brief the press Thursday morning and detail the way forward.
In their statement, the Ministry of Works said this decision takes effect at midnight tonight. “In the meantime, we urge all road users to continue driving responsibly and observing traffic rules.”
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The new regulations that are suspended
⚠Exceed the speed limit by 1–30km/h? That’ll cost you UGX 200,000.
âš Go over by 30km/h or more? Get ready to cough up UGX 600,000
The Traffic & Road Safety (Speed Limit) Regulations 2024 were introduced to the public and gazetted in February. They see a reduction in speed limits in redefined “urban centers” and subsequently an increase in the maximum penalties from sh200,000 to sh600,000 for any person who exceeds the speed limit.
“So if you’re flying at 100 km/h on Northern Bypass (limit: 70 km/h) or above 60 km/h on Lugogo Bypass (limit: 30 km/h)… that’s 30 currency points out of your wallet—not the old 10! Let’s keep the roads safe—and your money where it belongs,” the ministry said in a statement in April when the regulations were introduced.
Signed late last year by the Minister of Works and Transport, Gen. Katumba Wamala, the regulations see a reduction of speed limits from 50 km/h to 30 km/h for urban areas.Â
Urban areas have also been redefined. Speed on all roads adjacent to a school, church, hospital, market, or business center with high human or vehicular interaction is now limited to 30 km/h. This categorization was not there before but was introduced in the new regulations.
The speed limits for all major highways having single carriageways have equally been lowered to below 100 km/hr, with only dual carriageways now left with a maximum speed of 100 km/hr.
“The changes also come on a backdrop that the previous regulations did not provide for specific traffic speed limits for specific zones, especially busy centers, thereby exposing pedestrian traffic to accident risks,” an official at the Ministry of Works said.
The last changes to speed laws were done 20 years ago with the Uganda’s Speed Limit Regulations 2004 that replaced those of 1972.
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⚠️ New 30km speed limit for urban areas now in full force
Good
Please clarify
Is it true that what used to be 30 miles per hour became
30 Km/ hour?
If it is true
In 1969
While sitting in. Primary five class room, in a school
located 55 km on the Kampala Gulu High way
A grade II teacher from Vusubizi PTC taught us as
follows
If 5 miles is equivalent to 8 Km
Then one mile us equivalent to 8 divide by 5 kn
Therefore
39 miles would be equivalent to 8 divide by 5 km
multiply by 30
That speed would be 48 Km per hour and not 30km per
hour
In summary if it was 39 miles per hour, the speed is now
48 Km per hour
Says the bare foot pupils if that time
In this new era of student centered learning , the
speed for school zone is 20 mph to 40 mph or i
Or Km
Assuming Uganda chose the average speed
20 plus 40 divide by two makes it 30 mph
30 Km multiplied by 5/8
Makes the current speed of 18.75 mph
Is this what was intended?
In this new era of student centered learning , the
speed for school zone is 20 mph to 40 mph or i
Or Km
Assuming Uganda chose the average speed
20 plus 40 divide by two makes it 30 mph
30 Km multiplied by 5/8
Makes the current speed of 18.75 mph
Is this what was intended?
This will not work for the Ugandans for sure .