M20 - strange new cameras
Discussion
Does anyone know what's going on with all the cameras appearing on the M20 recently?
On the way to work this morning, there are three strange new gantries in the central reservation between junctions 4 and 2 (or 2 and 4 if you're going coastbound!).
They're painted dark blue and, at first glance, look like the ornate lampposts you'd find in any pedestrianised surburban town centre - but each gantry has two lots of wiring coming out of the horizontal arm suspended over the motorway carriages.
Also, there have been a huge number (maybe 30+) small white cameras installed mainly on the London-bound carriageway between junctions 4 and 2 (although there are a couple on the coastbound side too). They appear like regular CCTV cameras mounted on very tall thin poles alongside the hard shoulder and there are also a couple looking straight down at the carriageway on the overhead gantry where the M20 splits off to the M26.
I've phoned the Kent Highway's Agency who say they have nothing to do with cameras and gave me the number of another agency called "Interoute" who apparently deal with all camera installations.
The person I spoke to at Interoute is checking into it and will be calling me back, but I just wondered whether anyone here knew anything about it?
On the way to work this morning, there are three strange new gantries in the central reservation between junctions 4 and 2 (or 2 and 4 if you're going coastbound!).
They're painted dark blue and, at first glance, look like the ornate lampposts you'd find in any pedestrianised surburban town centre - but each gantry has two lots of wiring coming out of the horizontal arm suspended over the motorway carriages.
Also, there have been a huge number (maybe 30+) small white cameras installed mainly on the London-bound carriageway between junctions 4 and 2 (although there are a couple on the coastbound side too). They appear like regular CCTV cameras mounted on very tall thin poles alongside the hard shoulder and there are also a couple looking straight down at the carriageway on the overhead gantry where the M20 splits off to the M26.
I've phoned the Kent Highway's Agency who say they have nothing to do with cameras and gave me the number of another agency called "Interoute" who apparently deal with all camera installations.
The person I spoke to at Interoute is checking into it and will be calling me back, but I just wondered whether anyone here knew anything about it?
That's the gantries that have gone in....so now we know.
B*ggers!!!
The speed camera signs on that section of motorway have been in place now for 18 months or more with only the occasional mobile patrol - I wonder how many people are going to get a nasty shock once those b*st*rd Specs are operational?
What a complete and utter liberty! On a
ing motorway!
I'm quite annoyed.
B*ggers!!!
The speed camera signs on that section of motorway have been in place now for 18 months or more with only the occasional mobile patrol - I wonder how many people are going to get a nasty shock once those b*st*rd Specs are operational?
What a complete and utter liberty! On a
ing motorway! I'm quite annoyed.
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