following on from yesterdays thread, heres a picture i just managed to snap of the camera hidden behind the sign. the camera is about 3 feet from the sign and is positioned 3 car lengths from the traffic light. (i tried to get the picture of the camera relative to the lights but its diffucult when your holding the digicam with one hand, steering slightly to the right with the other, braking for a red light and looking at the digicam screen and road at the same time lol!)

 

surely there are rules about this? the camera is impossible to see until your a few feet before it. its not like a tree has grown to cover it, theyv actually put it up behind an existing sign!

 

Ah, its a traffic light camera? I can agree with those.

Yeah, i dont have a problem with those, camera or no camera you shouldn't be going through red lights cos it's down right dangerous (where as 5mph over the speed limit is NOT dangerous. At all. IMHO of course). Still if there is a camera you do have the right to be informed, part of the data protection act. I think in this case that applies unless there are signs informing you of the presence of traffic light cameras.

Ah, its a traffic light camera? I can agree with those.

me too, nobody should run a red cos is bloody dangerous! its just the underhand way they go about putting them up that gets me.

 

i went for a walk the other night and saw that theyv also put up a load of speed cameras on a very long very straight road (30mph limit). i just happened to look up into one and noticed it was completely empty lol

About 4 years ago I was at some lights around 2 in the morning when my side of the lights went green. I was in my astra but I was still in 3rd, so the car just didnt move when I tried. I put it in 1st and stated to reach the cross road when a truck flew through the red light at about 40 mph.

 

If I had been in 1st, I would have been hit by that truck who ran the red light.

 

Speeding can be dangerous that is why we have limits on certain roads but its now got out of hand. But Traffic lights, people's lives depend on that you stop when its at red or changing to red and only go when its green.

I agree with traffic light cameras

yeaaaa i was right.

 

sneaky fooks