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DulwichFox Wrote:

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> There is no need for cameras simply to measure

> traffic flow.

>

> Usually 2 cables spread across the road with a

> box at kerbside does the job.

> It can measure traffic count and direction of

> flow. Data used to determine one way schemes.


Maybe they want to establish what type of traffic, e.g. cars, lorries, motor bikes, push bikes, foot traffic...

These cameras are concentrated on lamp posts junction of Crystal Palace Rd. and Whateley Rd.


They go past Ulverscroft Rd but not on Ulverscroft and stop before Fellbrigg Rd.

But they are on every lamp post in that area. They point at an angle down to kerbside.


So not for traffic count. Probably to do with Parking..


.. So what comes next ? Does not bode well..


Foxy

Blah Blah Wrote:

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> It's just a camera, attached to a battery,

> recording to a hard disk and very similar to ones

> used to record traffic data in the past, but if

> you really want to know for sure, just ring the

> council.



If that were the case. a single camera would do.. why on every lamp post both sides of the road.


Foxy

They're transmitters disguised as cameras. One for each hemisphere of your brain. Beaming subconscious thoughts from our lizard overlords. They need to keep us cattle docile by divide and conquer - if you don't immediately start wearing a heavy-bottomed pan* on your head when you're near them, you'll be susceptible to ideas like "outsiders are bad"; "People from other neighbourhoods are a threat to your lifestyle"; "Your territory is being invaded and changed for the worse". You will develop irrational phobias - of random things, like estate agents, or croissants.


Be vigilant!



*p.s. I recommend Le Creuset. If you are instinctively horrified, I'm afraid it's already too late.

Blah Blah Wrote:

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> It's just a camera, attached to a battery,

> recording to a hard disk and very similar to ones

> used to record traffic data in the past, but if

> you really want to know for sure, just ring the

> council.


That's no fun. I want to speculate about an elaborate conspiracy.

peckham_ryu Wrote:

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> They're transmitters disguised as cameras. One for

> each hemisphere of your brain. Beaming

> subconscious thoughts from our lizard overlords.

> They need to keep us cattle docile by divide and

> conquer - if you don't immediately start wearing a

> heavy-bottomed pan* on your head when you're near

> them, you'll be susceptible to ideas like

> "outsiders are bad"; "People from other

> neighbourhoods are a threat to your lifestyle";

> "Your territory is being invaded and changed for

> the worse". You will develop irrational phobias -

> of random things, like estate agents, or

> croissants.

>

> Be vigilant!

>

>

> *p.s. I recommend Le Creuset. If you are

> instinctively horrified, I'm afraid it's already

> too late.


Ha!

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