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#299154 15-Aug-2022 23:21
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A bunch of these towers seem to have gone up in the past few months along Albany Highway in Auckland, they look nothing like other traffic management cameras I've seen. They seem to be at fairly random intervals along the road. Looks like a couple of different kinds of cameras on each one.

 

Are these the new cameras that they are trialling to detect driver phone usage? Why so many of them, and why the random intervals? Or are they a new kind of speed camera? There's already a dedicated transit lane camera on this stretch of road, so I don't think It's that but maybe they're next gen ones?

 

Traffic camera?


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  #2955141 16-Aug-2022 00:06
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These are the transit lane cameras I believe. Same ones on Onewa Road. Such an eyesore and they put them in such bad locations (at least for the Onewa Road ones)!

 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300561355/stupid-solution-to-a-stupid-problem-council-paves-around-problem-traffic-cameras 





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  #2955145 16-Aug-2022 06:55
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Wow, ok thanks @sonyxperiageek, interesting, because they already had a fixed transit lane camera (different design) outside Albany Senior High for the past 18 months or so which recently got upgraded as well.


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  #2955156 16-Aug-2022 08:02
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They are also part of the new "average speed zone" being trialled there.




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  #2956625 19-Aug-2022 16:33
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I didn't even notice these on my way to work this morning. Are the average speed zone cameras actively "patrolling" now? I might be expecting something in the mailbox from the council 😆


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