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A checkpoint on Moorgate in July 2014, when it was not staffed. The road narrowing and slowing of traffic are visible. The Traffic and Environmental Zone, commonly known as the "ring of steel", [1] is the security and surveillance cordon consisting of road barriers, checkpoints and several hundred CCTV cameras surrounding the City of London, the financial district at the heart of Greater London.
The London congestion charge scheme uses two hundred and thirty cameras and ANPR to help monitor vehicles in the charging zone. In 2005, the Independent reported that by the following year, the majority of roads, urban cetres, London's congestion charge zone, [6] ports and petrol station forecourts will have been covered by CCTV camera networks using automatic number plate recognition.
[26] [110] Based on a small sample in Putney High Street, McCahill and Norris extrapolated the number of surveillance cameras in Greater London to be around 500,000 and the total number of cameras in the UK to be around 4.2M. According to their estimate the UK has one camera for every 14 people.
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A traffic enforcement camera (also a red light camera, speed camera, road safety camera, bus lane camera, depending on use) is a camera which may be mounted beside or over a road or installed in an enforcement vehicle to detect motoring offenses, including speeding, vehicles going through a red traffic light, vehicles going through a toll booth ...
London Streets is also responsible for managing the London congestion charge, a fee that is charged to most motorists entering the central London area, [2] as well as street CCTV systems and control of traffic lights and bus lane enforcement cameras (BLECs). In both domains London Streets leads on most byelaws and prosecution mechanisms and ...
SpeedCurb speed camera, London July 2009, side view. These cameras are installed beside a road and record the instantaneous speed of vehicles and a photograph of vehicles that have been identified as breaking the speed limit. There are two types commonly in use: Gatso cameras, which take a photograph of the rear of the vehicle after the vehicle ...
Prior to its liquidation in 2018, Carillion was subcontracted to manage traffic on the M25, delivering live alerts from body-worn cameras via 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi. [99] Since 1995, sections of the M25 have been equipped with variable speed limits, which slow traffic in the event of congestion or an obstruction, and help manage the traffic flow. [100]