Mike Tuckwood

Hehe, don't want to burst your bubble Gazz, but they don't work on lane 1 at all.

There is only ever one pair of the available 24 cameras working at any particular time.


Mike.

MorayMackenzie

So I wasn't wrong about what the "scaling down" of the system would entail... cool. Hopefully this "failure" will be heeded by other councils who may have been considering such tax collection, whoops, traffic calming measures.

brickboy

Item in Monday's Guardian: try not to smile when you read it.

"A new and sophisticated camera installed in Nottingham has just been deemed a failure by the local authority which had great hopes for it. A super-sensitive machine, it promised, according to the manufacturer, to pick up every law-breaker the moment they strayed above the limit. Expensive to buy and maintain it might have been, but traffic administrators in the city swooned at the thought of the profits to be trousered as it trained its all-prying lens on passing motors. Except that drivers quickly learned to slow down in its vicinity.

This was a good thing, you might think. Serious accidents on the road near it dropped 52% in six months as average speeds were cut by 5mph. However, that wasn't really what the council wanted. It was after fines. It was income they craved - the £700,000 a year they had been led to believe they would bank. And when only nine drivers a day were caught when the council was anticipating 60, the expensive cameras were removed. Which entirely confirms what some of us always suspected was the purpose of these mechanical tax collectors: it is money, not lives, that counts."

GAZZ SCOOBY

That is good news i go through 2 sets of these everyday in notts
They are very good for a laugh when people try to race you and fly up the inside of you you know they will get a ticket
Good news generally at least they will not go nationwide now luckily
have a look at link below for info n the specs cameras involved

DavidRB

The ABD has a take on it too:

boomer

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by brickboy:
<B>...as average speeds were cut by 5mph.[/quote]

The ABD picked up on this, as in HOW DO THEY KNOW the average speed of traffic, before digitals cameras that compute the average speed were implemented, so HOW CAN THEY TELL the drop? You then start to wonder whether the 52% reduction in serious accidents is a valid statistic as well!!!

Good riddance - time to install cameras IN THE HOME, because more people are hurt there (just kidding about the cameras!).

mb

Rebecca

Are you sure they've been removed?

I saw a similar article in one of last weeks papers and quoting the council or whoever to say that as it was part of a 2 or 3 year plan they expected to break even by the end of the trial period.

Mike Tuckwood

They have definitely NOT been removed.