Bus Lane Cameras Please

From Pedalpushers

Sheffield has recently started to introduce bus lane cameras. Here is your opportunity to say where you would like these sited. Here's a few suggestions to get you started:

|- |Hillsborough Corner| In place and working well|| |-

Glossop Rd/Upper Hanover St (for people flouting the bus/tram gate at peak times, ignoring the no right turn from glossop rd inbound into Upper hanover way, and the no left turn from Upper hanover way into Glossop Rd.)

Ecclesall Rd/Moore St inbound (the introduction of a no right turn into Summerfield St has made this worse)

Napier St/London Rd

London Rd between Napier St & IRR

Fitzwilliam Gate & Cumberland St (Moorfoot ) - both gates.

Granville Rd

Attercliffe Rd/Savile St inbound

Arundel Gate (& crossing into Angel St - we don't want any car-tram accidents here do we?)

Savile St inbound.

Bolsover St

Portobello to Pond St

Bottom of Infirmary Road (complex junction where all car drivers _should_ be turning right into Watery St; cyclists have the added hazard of the tram tracks)

Mowbray Street (bus lane is routinely abused)

Note: Sheffield City Council have asked me to put a note on here to the effect that this page has no direct connection with them.

Update: The Bus Lane Camera at Hillsborough Corner is due to be installed in February. There have been some technical difficulties. Pending a successful outcome for this first one, we will be pressing for the above locations to be next.

'2nd Update' February has arrived but, unsurprisingly, not the promised and long-awaited cameras at Hillsborough corner (to enforce the sorely abused tram / bus gate - some 15,000 vehicles a day at the last count). It is looking increasingly likely that the enforcement of the tram gates will be forever promised, but never delivered (it is now over 3 years since the Sheffield CC meeting which ratified the installation of these cameras, and, of course, 13 years since the tram gates became operative). In the meantime, the total lack of any action to prevent such abuse by selfish and law-breaking motorists is not only a continuing slap in the face for all those public transport users in Hillsborough, but it also remains a danger to cyclists and pedestrians alike. Sheffield CC's lethargy is matched only by some of the excuses citing technological difficulties - is there something in the air at Hillsborough that stops these things working? Abuse bus lanes in London and you will receive a fine (all enforced via cameras), but there again, you are talking about a council who do not kowtow to the motoring lobby. The lack of political will demonstrated by SCC would not be so risible were it not for the fact that they they constantly talk about cutting congestion by promoting other forms of transport on the one hand, while indirectly discouraging these modes on the other - cycling / walking/ public transport have to be perceived as more convenient/ faster / safer etc., which ,of course, is exactly what Hillsborough is not at the present time.

3rd Update Bus lane cameras are working in Hillsborough and early indications are that they are a success. The possibility of mobile cameras to be used at variable hot-spots has been mooted.