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Permalink Reply by Richard McKeever on December 7, 2010 at 23:34

This consultation has been reported in the Hornsey Journal today suggesting that Haringey Council is considering sophistcated Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras to control the flow of traffic in residential roads in near Bounds Green Tube west of Durnsford Road and south of Bounds Green Road,heading down to the North Circular - yet is unable to use the system to exempt residents from being fined for using their own roads during the morning and evening peak times.

It strikes me that the difficult part is getting the high-tech number plate camera system in place - I genuinely can't understand why there appears to be such a problem with exemption of vehicles that are registered to addresses within a specified number of streets in the locality. This data is aready held on the DVLA and Police National Computer systems I would think it should be a comparitively simple job filter number plates from a database of residents' cars that are "allowed" to enter the controlled zone during restricted hours - but Haringey say this is not an option.

Like Dave says in his original message I would urge anyone who lives, works or travels in the area to participate in the consultation - to give them their due Haringey Council have said it is not intended to be a revenue generation scheme and have promised to implement the most popular option voted for by residents.

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Permalink Reply by Dave McNeill on December 8, 2010 at 9:40

Of course, I wouldn't suggest that individuals in government, including the spokesman who refutes revenue generation as a motive, are liars. I'm afraid, however, that recent history has shown that our governments are institutionally dishonest.

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