Greybeard Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 From March 31st. Sheffield Council will have the power to use CCTV to catch illegal parking and parking attendants will no longer need to siick a ticket on your windscreen; they can just say they "saw you do it". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/21/npark121.xml Hopefully the council will raise enough cash from this to fill in a few more potholes. In London where this has been in force for some time, drivers stopping in red zones to avoid running down jay-walking pedestrians have been fined for stopping illegally - they know what to do next time it happens.
johno Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 They will also have the power to issue tickets for parking on a drop kerb, Parking to far away from the kerb, and i think they may also be able to do Obstruction one's to. All i can say is get ready
mrmist Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 In general, a good idea. It really annoys me when people don't park responsibly, or stop on a clearway or whatever. Unfortunately, this won't be used to fine those people, it'll be used to fine the people who nudge slightly into a yellow box to let an ambulance through, or pull over into a bus lane to avoid an accident.
ara01jbb Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 I got to have a look around the control room of SWISS (Sheffield Wide Image Switching Service) a couple of week ago (as part of a university studio investigating the architecture of public security). It's behind an airlock in a basement of City Hall. There are 126 cameras, all digitally networked and many with tilt, turn and zoom functions. If you're interested, I mapped them... http://studio-9.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/swissmap.pdf
mr.blaze Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 I got to have a look around the control room of SWISS (Sheffield Wide Image Switching Service) a couple of week ago (as part of a university studio investigating the architecture of public security). It's behind an airlock in a basement of City Hall. There are 126 cameras, all digitally networked and many with tilt, turn and zoom functions. If you're interested, I mapped them... http://studio-9.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/swissmap.pdf Good work
Mathom Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 Depends if it's sensibly used. Yes, it should go on 'clearway' areas such as box junctions and roundabouts etc - everyone's seen the chaos when we have a gridlock and you get morons who just block up junctions they cannot pass through! But on emptier roads a warden is better as often all he has to do is give a stern warning and you scuttle off feeling naughty (this happened to me when I was running back from the sorting office with a parcel - he said "Feed the meter or get a ticket" which was fair enough ). However, if they fill Heeley with these things I'll be more than happy as that idiot from TASC who uses our pavements as a carpark might finally get stung with a ticket...
heavenlyarts Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 However, if they fill Heeley with these things I'll be more than happy as that idiot from TASC who uses our pavements as a carpark might finally get stung with a ticket... Yet they still fail to enforce parking law on matchdays in the Heeley area
alchresearch Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 Unfortunately, this won't be used to fine those people, it'll be used to fine the people who nudge slightly into a yellow box to let an ambulance through, or pull over into a bus lane to avoid an accident. Surely the camera and / or operator will see this though and not send out pointless fines that will be quoshed? I hope it will be to fine people like the guy in the 4X4 yesterday who blocked up a yellow box and prevented loads of people from turning right when the lights went green for us. When people sounded their horns in frustration at him he just gave the finger.
Mathom Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 Yet they still fail to enforce parking law on matchdays in the Heeley area Hopefully this kind of thing might mean they can start to do that, that's my point. It's ruddy annoying isn;t it?!
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