Norfolks Most Unpopular Speed Camera Reinstated.

[ledfoot]

Grapes Hill speed camera returns to duty

Norfolk's most unpopular speed camera - on Grapes Hill in Norwich - is to be switched back on after the partnership responsible for it had to admit that it met the required accident-count criteria after all.

News of the U-turn came as the partnership's chairman admitted that evidence of more than 300 speeding offences - caught on the camera - was dumped when it was taken out of operation.

The camera could be catching motorists again within two weeks - it is one of 18 yellow boxes in the county where the partnership's five cameras are rotated.


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[supraman2954]

....goes to show the SCPs really don't know what they are doing (and wasting our money proving it)!

[MMC]

KER-CHINGGGG...

That's another scammer's salary and final salary pension scheme paid for then.

Nice one Norfolk.

Not.

[turbobloke]

MMC said:

KER-CHINGGGG...Nice one Norfolk. Not

Norfolk's turkey reincarnated, just booofl

[D-Angle]

I give it a fortnight before it's "timberrrrrrrrr"

[autismuk]

ledfoot said:

Grapes Hill speed camera returns to duty Norfolk's most unpopular speed camera - on Grapes Hill in Norwich - is to be switched back on after the partnership responsible for it had to admit that it met the required accident-count criteria after all. News of the U-turn came as the partnership's chairman admitted that evidence of more than 300 speeding offences - caught on the camera - was dumped when it was taken out of operation. The camera could be catching motorists again within two weeks - it is one of 18 yellow boxes in the county where the partnership's five cameras are rotated. <a href="http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED10%20Sep%202004%2020%3A50%3A35%3A680">http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED10%20Sep%202004%2020%3A50%3A35%3A680</a>

The really interesting detail about this camera is when its position was questioned, the Scamera Partnership said they'd shredded the evidence.

As a regular Norwich visitor, this camera is a joke. It's on a hill, there's a big roundabout at the top with lights (lots of shunts) and a nasty traffic light junction at the bottom. (ditto).

It's actually really difficult to break this limit significantly. It's dead easy to do 35-37, almost impossible to break it by much more than that.

You get off the roundabout, go down the hill, which is steep by our standards, and are almost always stopped by a traffic queue at the lights. The camera is positioned at the point of acceleration off the roundabout, down the hill, but there's plenty of time to slow for the lights. The camera makes you stand on the brake rather than drive normally.

Of course, the 1km placement rule or whatever will be fine, because the Camera is within this distance of almost the entirety of Central Norwich !

It was justified by the argument that there had been 7 KSI in the 'area' in the preceding 3 years before installation, and none in the 6 months after installation.

Which speaks for itself if you are remotely numerically literate.

>> Edited by autismuk on Monday 13th September 08:54