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Article: Notorious road may get speed cameras
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- Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
- Article date:
- February 2, 2007
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Speed cameras could be installed on a notorious road in Aberdeen
to clamp down on rogue drivers who use it as a race track.
Grampian Police and the city council are in talks to install four
average speed cameras along Beach Boulevard.
The so-called yellow vultures, named on account of their hunched
shape, note the number plate and the time of a car going past at one
point and again at another point to calculate the average speed of a
vehicle over a stretch of road.
The cameras, mounted on poles overhanging the road, are being
used on the A90 south of Dundee where roadworks are being carried
out.
A spokesman for the council last night confirmed that a report on
the issue was being drawn up ...