Hi.Does anyone know if there is a traffic light camera on upper hanover street in sheffield? And if there is, is it on the side going towards HSBC bank, or the side going away from it?

The website says that there is a "red light" camera at A61 Upper Hanover Street at Glossop Road, Broomhall

No information on its direction though!

http://www.safetycamera.org/upload/PageData/sheffield.xls

Originally posted by Qumer
Hi.Does anyone know if there is a traffic light camera on upper hanover street in sheffield? And if there is, is it on the side going towards HSBC bank, or the side going away from it?

The side going towards it, up to Brookhill roundabout.

Are you sure? I don't mean the yellow speed camera. I mean a traffic light camera, the one that monitors if you go through red.

There definitely is a red light camera on the way up the hill because my husband got 3 points and a £60 fine on his way to pick me and my 3 day old daughter from the Jessops wing last year!:mad:

Originally posted by Qumer
Are you sure? I don't mean the yellow speed camera. I mean a traffic light camera, the one that monitors if you go through red.

Not sure Q, but if you mean the small camera's on top of Traffic lights...............then I would have been nicked a thousand times over...............I think they monitor traffic flow..............It's my understanding that only the yellow Gatso type things take pictures................but I could be totally wrong..............

OOOps, tell you, I went through only just as it turned red the other day, that little brown envelope has'nt arrived yet.....hopefully. Maybe just due to crap post service in S5:suspect: will let you know anyway. Women drivers honest:hihi:

Originally posted by bigredbox
OOOps, tell you, I went through only just as it turned red the other day, that little brown envelope has'nt arrived yet.....hopefully. Maybe just due to crap post service in S5:suspect: will let you know anyway. Women drivers honest:hihi:

:hihi: Well the same thing happened to me yesterday going down away from the roundabout, I saw a flash don't know if it was for me or for some poor soul on the other side.

Nah....do tend to think that the flash was from camera on opp side of road...downhill.
The same thing happened to me on Birley Moor Road, heading out of city. Saw a flash but knew for I was only doing 30. Camera is opp side of road.
It does make you think and look, so either way it works, yet another 60 quid in the coppers pockets or another accident prevented.

I used to catch the tram into town outside the HSBC bank (university stop) and almost every day the camera would flash somebody going through on red.
The one next to Halfords on ? Queens Road I've never seen flash but loads go through on red towards Chesterfield.

they are sensors above the traffic lights not cameras,they are mostly found on pedestrian crossings and busy road crossings

Originally posted by cloudybay
Not sure Q, but if you mean the small camera's on top of Traffic lights...............then I would have been nicked a thousand times over...............I think they monitor traffic flow..............It's my understanding that only the yellow Gatso type things take pictures................but I could be totally wrong..............

the box on top of the lights is usually a sensor.. the speed cameras are big yellow boxes and traffic light cameras are grey boxes which are slimmer. the traffic light cameras flash and take photos..

the one on that road is for the traffic heading up the hill past hsbc to round about :D

Originally posted by dlee
they are sensors above the traffic lights not cameras,they are mostly found on pedestrian crossings and busy road crossings

Yeah, they are infra red detectors not cameras.

Bwah ha ha!
I was at that junction about a week ago, driving up towards HSBC to turn up Glossop road. The mini in front of me drove straight through the red light..... and FLASH! Caught! Bwah ha ha haaa....... I was delighted. I'm always seeing people sail through red lights..... I enjoyed seeing someone finally nabbed.

Leah x

I wish they wolud put one on the lights at the Juction of Station Road, Queen Street and Sheffield Road at Mosborough.

There is going to be a nasty accident there one day.

The amount of cars going through at red and ignoring the No Right Turn sign would make them loads of money.

yes there is definately a yellow speed camera on the a61 hanover way just past the flats heading towards the university then as you carry on the lights at the hsbc bank has a traffic signal camera that gets you if you go through on red.
Apparently even though there are all these cameras around they are not always loaded? so if you do get a flash you are not guarenteed a ticket? not sure how true that is though so dont try it!!:confused:

The red-light camera on Hanover way near HSBC can be triggered by pedestrians crossing the road on the wrong side of the stop line!

Originally posted by the_rudeboy
Yeah, they are infra red detectors not cameras.

Most are actually microwave detectors working on the doppler effect

as shown here http://www.microsense.co.uk/pdf/ADD003.pdf

Driving from broomhill shops straight to fulwood rd (when you pass the oxfam and go straight on)
theres a traffic light that often just goes onto orange- the next one is literally one second away and I'm thinking" is it the same traffic light or should I have stopped" as by the time I passed the first one on orange- the other one is on red!
Anyone know what i mean?

It is a grey camera - it's not a sensor.

The other day we were waiting there and an ambulance wsa trying to get through, so the people who were at the front had to pull forward slightly - through the red to let the ambulance edge past. Would they have got a ticket?

What would you do in that situation? Hold up the ambulance and refuse to get out of its way or move and get the £60 fine/3 points?

The other day we were waiting there and an ambulance wsa trying to get through, so the people who were at the front had to pull forward slightly - through the red to let the ambulance edge past. Would they have got a ticket?

What would you do in that situation? Hold up the ambulance and refuse to get out of its way or move and get the £60 fine/3 points?

I think you should get out of the way of the ambulance and then, if you get a notice, write back explaining the situation. Chances are they will see the ambulance in the photo anyway and (hopefully) see common sense!

Originally posted by lammy
I think you should get out of the way of the ambulance and then, if you get a notice, write back explaining the situation. Chances are they will see the ambulance in the photo anyway and (hopefully) see common sense!

Don't count on that only a few weeks ago a chap in Doncaster did just that it went to Court the Court upheld the ticket from the lovely quango Camera Partnership so what they are really saying is don't over move for Police,Ambulance Fire etc if you are near a traffic light camera etc.

I hate those cameras.... I totally hate people that go through red light and do back those cameras if someone did go through red. But they make you so paranoid... Just today for example, I anticipated it changing to red and thought "I bet it'll be orange by the time I get up that hill" and sure enough it bloody was..... I did go through orange as the car as I was going at about 25mph, and braking suddently at that speed wouldn't have been safe.
I hope it was ok!