Liverpool City Council has installed a series of new cameras aimed at reducing moving traffic contraventions in the city. The Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras are part of a strategy to tackle dangerous driving and encourage sustainable travel. Liverpool has received new enforcement powers, set out in the Traffic Management Act (2004). Local authorities are now able to penalise poor driving practices that were previously enforceable only by police under criminal law. The cameras will help the council to pursue action against driving behaviour that puts the community and environment in danger.
The ANPR cameras go live at the start of Road Safety Week and will also work in tandem with changes to key parts of Liverpool’s highways networks, such as the upgrade of The Strand and Lime Street, and the growing number of cycle lanes across the city. Drivers who contravene the new rules will receive a warning letter initially but may face a fine of £70 if the offence is repeated.
Examples of offences covered by the new powers include passing through a school street, driving through a ‘No Entry’ sign, or undertaking dissenting turns. The Council will initially target its enforcement with cameras at several locations around the city. These include Lime Street from London Road for buses, taxis, and access only, and Ranelagh Street at Brownlow Hill, where there will be no U-turns on Ranelagh Place.
Further ANPR cameras will become operational in the middle of December at sites including Whitechapel Cross/Hall Street; New Quay/Chapel Street, and St. Annes Fire Station. Camerawork will also feature at various Lime Street locations to enforce the bus-only route, which will become operational early next year when it opens to the public.
The cameras will also feature at “school streets” for Greenbank Primary School and Much Woolton Primary School in the New Year, at locations including Arlington Avenue from Greenbank Road and Arlington Avenue from Nicander Road. The Highways Team from Liverpool Council will also be visiting the city’s schools during Road Safety Week. The team’s focus is to educate schoolchildren about safe driving practices and to coordinate safety sessions that include speed surveys on relevant streets
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