I've noticed recently that some odd looking cameras have started
popping up on gantries around london. I've seen them on the A406, A12
and A13 so far. They/re quite small, round and theres usually 4 or 5
of them mounted horizontally on a bar across the carraigeway. Are
these some sort of number plate recognition system?

B2003

Boltar (Boltar yahoo.co.uk>) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

Yeh, I've been wondering that, too. There's also some around the services
on the M4 (can't remember the name of the svcs - the ones between
Heathrow and London) and on the A40 between the Hoover building and
Hangar Lane.

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:03:05 -0700, Boltar yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

Number plate and face recognition according to the press. A more
permanent version of the slew of unmarked white vans with things on
tripods on over bridges during the party conference season I guess.

Boltar wrote:

I understand that most of these new cameras are in connection with the
Low Emission Zone (LEZ) to be introduced from February 2008. Details at
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/lez/default.aspx

On Oct 21, 5:00 pm, J...@Underthewagon.net wrote:

I guess its time to go out and buy the motorbike - no front plate (the
cameras face backwards) and a helmet covering the face.

B2003

On Oct 21, 5:53 pm, "Richard J." blueukder.co.yon> wrote:

Is the LEZ the whole M25 area??

B2003

Boltar (Boltar yahoo.co.uk>) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

The whole of the London Boroughs, with the exception of one or two short
stretches of motorway.

On Oct 22, 9:25 am, Boltar yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Its the whole of the London area, from Enfield to Kingston, Havering
to Hillingdon and including Bromley and Croydon. Some parts of the M4,
M25 and M11 are included, though I don't see how they can police a
vehicle passing through a small section of the M25 in its way to
somewhere else. Its worrying someone I know whose factory is just
inside the zone and he has a P-reg diesel van, which he travels to
work in each day.

Neill

Neill

verbena (verbena hotmail.com>) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

s'ok - that one short stretch of M25 is explicitly excluded.

Vans <3.5t don't come under the LEZ until 2010.

JonH@Underthewagon.net wrote:

There are a set on the M20 which appear to coincide with a set of painted
speed camera markings on the road surface - although I don't know the road
well, so it's entirely possible those relate to an older camera. But
presumably, the new cameras could double up as speed detectors?