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Old April 7th 06, 12:28 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Neillw001 Neillw001 is offline
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Default What are those new cameras springing up all over the place?

I've just been down to have look at the camera. Its basically as I
described it except the pole is a grey-green instead of just green.
There's a plate attached informing you its alarmed back to the police
in Central London. Two rectangular openings in the front of the box.
Pole is about twelve feet in height. I wonder if that has anything to
do with an attempt to stop vandalism?
Nearby is a grey-green box attached by some new tarmac in the path.
More new tarmac leads from that to the road where there are four
embedded lines that must be some sort of sensor. There's also the
standard speed camera road markings.
There are no other similar cameras in the area, neither are there any
camera warning signs preceeding it. The nearest cameras are standard
GATSOS about two miles away.
It seems a bit of a bizarre place to put a speed camera. The road limit
is 30mph, but it is not a fast road and while people no doubt exceed
the limit along that stretch at times there is no history of accidents
to justify such an installation. A lot of the time the congestion along
there is so bad it is difficult to reach the speed limit, let alone
exceed it. There are far more spots locally where cameras would be
justified in my opinion.

Neill