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Anybody know what the new cameras are for, situated all the way along the new A249 dual carriageway and over the new Sheppey bridge between the M2 and Sheerness.
They look like SPECS cameras, only they're painted dark blue and not as high mounted, and they're focused on white spraypainted dots, one in the middle of each lane and in both directions.
No new warning signs have been erected to indicate speed detection and the road carries a 70mph speed limit.
Any thoughts?

I recall someone saying that Trafficmaster works by using ANPR, to measure the speeds of vehicles over various sections of road - but I have no idea if this is authoritative or true.

Trafficmaster Detectors

Mr. Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether Trafficmaster detectors on motorways and trunk roads are equipped with lenses capable of reading vehicle registration numbers; and if he will make a statement. [101382]

Mr. Jamieson: The Trafficmaster units on the motorway and trunk road network use two types of detector. The model using an infrared beam is not fitted with lenses. The other type incorporates a camera that reads vehicle registration marks.

To preserve privacy, equipment at the roadside removes the first and last characters of each number plate read by the cameras. The remaining characters are

encrypted and processed to create a unique Identifier which is used to calculate the average speed of a batch of vehicles. No other information about a vehicle is recorded, and after two hours, the Identifiers are discarded.