Traffic Cameras Hit Victoria Avenue
By Jim Symcox on Feb 10, 2010 in Heaton Park, Manchester, Manchester Traffic
Speed cameras for a road that sees very little traffic seems very strange.
For some months we’ve been driving up Victoria avenue, from the Heaton Park end, and seen the huge poles that look like fat lamp posts. Then overnight they were transformed into camera gantries with an arm extended over the road way with 2 cameras on it. One cameras is aimed in one direction and the other in the opposite direction.
There are actually 3 gantries over Victoria Avenue, although one has no cameras on it yet. And just for good measure near the lights with the intersection of Rochdale road there’s another pair of cameras on a more normal size camera stand.
The cameras all seem to be the average speed type. And interestingly enough there is a stretch near a school that has a permanent 20mph speed zone which is going to make a lot of income for the camera operators because people will think it’s 30mph outside school hours.
There’s been an enormous investment in cameras for one short piece of road.
There haven’t been large numbers of accidents, as far as I’m aware, that were caused by speeding drivers.
The traffic volumes seem quite low and I use the road every day and at different times of the day too. For instance, after about 8pm the whole road goes very quiet anyway.
It does make you wonder whether some of the money that comes in from other speed camera schemes has to be spent on road safety. And therefore this is one way of spending that money, and at the same time getting more revenue.
Just so you know the first speed cameras are at the bottom of Victoria Avenue on the left hand side as you head up it.
The second set of cameras are also on the left, near St. Claire’s School and opposite Thompsons chip shop and the third gantry is opposite Boots.
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