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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 07:45 PM Feb 2014

Yes

From 2007 :

Drivers flouting traffic restrictions in Oxford's historic High Street will be fined £60 when new spy cameras 'go live' this month.

The cameras - first promised six years ago - will catch drivers who ignore the daily ban on city centre traffic between 7.30am and 6.30pm by recording the registration numbers of outlawed vehicles.

Fixed penalties will start to be imposed when the system goes live on Monday, February 26.

Bus gate restriction points were introduced in city centre locations when the Oxford Transport Strategy was launched in 1999, and only buses, taxis and licensed private hire vehicles are allowed through during the day. But drivers have been given a free rein to ignore the ban - because a legal loophole meant no-one could be prosecuted using CCTV footage.

A recent change in legislation has now made enforcement possible for the first time.

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/1169008.cameras_will_finally_enforce_city_car_ban/

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