Entering yellow box and stopping Walton Forest

[green_and_mean]

The camera might have been installed for the provision of safety and public order.

An argument that has been used at patas is that the camera, by following and zooming cars, might miss a violent crime.

There are a few of them in Hounslow.

One day someone will be attacked and there will be no footage because the operator is busy making money for the LA.

 

You really do come up with a load of tosh sometimes!! Even public space cameras are rarely monitored its impossible to look at 50+ cameras at the same time hoping to see a crime they are usually used to gather evidence of reported crimes usually in response to a call from the Police, store security staff or council street wardens. Having an extra pair of eyes watching the cameras actually increases the odds of a crime being observed whilst in progress. Making up some lame argument doesn't stop your original claim cameras needing to be approved wrong.

[etoc2001]

I'm starting a petition to get signs advising of CCTV at yellow box junctions, should reduce the flow of cash and make YBJ's less attractive to councils..

[green_and_mean]

I'm starting a petition to get signs advising of CCTV at yellow box junctions, should reduce the flow of cash and make YBJ's less attractive to councils..

 

So you think a big yellow box should be ignored unless there is a cctv sign?? Why not just adhere to the rules you signed up to when you applied for a licence to drive a vehicle and then there would be no need for cctv at all!

[etoc2001]

No, I don't think that a yellow box should be ignored unless it has a cctv sign. I do think that a sign would prompt more drivers to keep to the rules and, if that is the intention of the councils, they should be happy to put the signs up. If, however, their aim is to generate revenue they will not want to.

[SabreSheep]

The very nature of the big bright yellow box is a sign on the road in itself

[green_and_mean]

The very nature of the big bright yellow box is a sign on the road in itself

 

Exactly, the highway code has different signs some advisory and some regulatory the fact that they are regulatory would indicate some sort of penalty for failing to adhere to their instructions. I would not have entered the box if I had known I was going to be caught hardly seems like a valid excuse.

[JoeyJoeC]

The very nature of the big bright yellow box is a sign on the road in itself

 

Remove all speed camera signs and paint those boxes black and hide them. You would prefer that?

[SabreSheep]

not sure what that has to do with anything

[BazzaS]

Remove all speed camera signs and paint those boxes black and hide them. You would prefer that?

 

It depends. It depends on what the aim is, making money, or reducing speeds.

The downsides to highly visible speed cameras acting at a single point is people speeding between them and then precipitously braking for each camera.

 

The average speed cameras (eg Specs) are a better option for major roads (though it is not always appropriate for urban use).

 

Anyhow, your comparison is daft.

Big yellow box on pole so it is highly visible.

Big yellow box on road so it is highly visible.

 

If the yellow box junction is so faded that it isn't visible to a careful and competent driver : the penalty would be unenforceable.

If drivers are willing to ignore a yellow box unless it has a warning of CCTV in use : just put signs saying "CCTV may be in use" for all box junctions. Have fixed CCTV at some sites, and mobile CCTV rotating around the others. Happy now?

[green_and_mean]

Before moving traffic was decriminalised I can just imagine you standing before a magistrate and claiming you only stopped in the box junction because there were no signs stating Police were in the area!

[etoc2001]

Agree