TfL's plans for "civil traffic enforcement"
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A presentation given by Jim Lewis, Engineering Manager for Traffic Enforcement, TfL. It's on the IET website here: www.iee.org/oncomms/pn/auto/DTES.p
While presented as a technical challenge, there are some policy comments in here as well. Some will also enjoy the IT architecture aspects. Note that data is encrypted and written to WORM "within 24 hours to protect data from tampering". Note also that it is "operated on the benefit of doubt principle". I was surprised to see the "false trigger rate" target as being less than 10%, which doesn't seem too stringent to me but perhaps this is to keep the partnerships staffing levels up as they handle the complaints.
>> Edited by Peter Ward on Friday 21st April 12:43
While presented as a technical challenge, there are some policy comments in here as well. Some will also enjoy the IT architecture aspects. Note that data is encrypted and written to WORM "within 24 hours to protect data from tampering". Note also that it is "operated on the benefit of doubt principle". I was surprised to see the "false trigger rate" target as being less than 10%, which doesn't seem too stringent to me but perhaps this is to keep the partnerships staffing levels up as they handle the complaints.
>> Edited by Peter Ward on Friday 21st April 12:43
Zod said:For the Olympics they're taking it as far as those old Soviet style Zyl lanes, to ensure Prescott can eat his pies on time, the Olympic officials can plant their fat backsides on the best seats, and athletes can get between blood and urine tests. Stray into one and it will be an uncivil £1000 fine. That's what was on the table a few months back, and afaik it still is.
This appears to just be bus lane enforcement. While I have objections to many of the capital's bus lanes, I don't infringe, so I'm not unduly concerned. Where they might take it from here though does worry me.
turbobloke said:So-called "Zyl lanes" were something of a misnomer; The reserved lanes were also used by Chaikas. These were one step down from the ZIL and were extensively used by the ZGB. Nikita Khruschev preferred the Chaika to the ZIL and kept one at his dacha ... but used the armoured ZIL in Moscow.
This appears to just be bus lane enforcement. While I have objections to many of the capital's bus lanes, I don't infringe, so I'm not unduly concerned. Where they might take it from here though does worry me.
ZIL ("Zavod Imeni Lihacheva"
started in 1924 as AMO (Avtomobilnoe Moskovskoe Obshchestvo ("Moscuvite Automotive Enterprise". ZIS ("Zavod Imeni Stalina" started in 1933 (from AMO). They manufactured the first Soviet truck. Their first car, the ZIS 101, was built in 1936. The factory stopped producing cars in 1941 and restarted in 1946. When Stalin died, the cars were renamed ZIL. Production continues. Streaky
PS - that the KGB used Chaika's was "useful". Also "useful" was the occasion that a delivery of brown homburg hats from Germany arrived in one of the "elite stores" open to the ZGB. For weeks afterwards, Western intelligence agencies photographed everyone wearing a brand-new, brown Homburg. And the really funny thing was ... they really were KGB agents! - S
Thanks streaky, whoever was allowed to use zil lanes in mother russia it looks like we won't be allowed to use their namesake in London under threat of a very large slap in the wallet. It remains to be seen how far Transport for Lefties will go in engineering some inevitable lane transgressions.
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