The penalty for breaking the rules is €30.
The most common places where violations are recorded are Daugavgrīvas Street, Mūkusalas Street, Krasta Street, the 11. novembra Embankment and Ģenerāļa Radziņa Embankment.
Most of the drivers penalized have been Latvian citizens, 180 in total. Citizens of other countries have been punished 144 times.
"Gradually right now, you might say, that number is decreasing, drivers are also becoming more informed, and also at the very beginning we put more resources into the control," said Ērika Verze, communications specialist at Rīga Municipal Police.
The number of offenses recorded varies according to the number of police teams assigned to control. That's between five and 20 cases a day. Most offenders are truck drivers, in rarer cases, log-haulers.
