AGD 200 Camera?

Merlin5 · 25 Sep 2019 at 17:12

I was driving slowly, about 15mph, through a set of pedestrian crossing traffic lights yesterday in my local high street, looked up and saw they were red as I was crossing or probably just before crossing the line. Oops! Been through these lights many times but wasn't paying as much attention this time as of course I should have been or normally do.

There's a camera on top of the lights facing towards oncoming vehicles with a label on it saying AGD 200. Worried about getting a ticket through the post, am I right in thinking the AGD 200 is not for catching light jumpers but for orchestrating when the lights need to change according to what traffic it sees?

NoobCannon · 25 Sep 2019 at 20:46

Lol no. Its a mvd it just puts a demand or an extension in for the signals, vehicle detection only, doesnt take a picture

Source :- i am a traffic controll engineer and spend all day fixing that type of thing

Merlin5 · 25 Sep 2019 at 22:54

NoobCannon said:
Lol no. Its a mvd it just puts a demand or an extension in for the signals, vehicle detection only, doesnt take a picture

Source :- i am a traffic controll engineer and spend all day fixing that type of thing

Perfect, you're clearly the right man then to answer such questions. Thank you sir.

Just so that I know, are there ever any little cameras fixed to traffic lights for prosecuting light jumpers, or is it only the yellow mini gatsos that sometimes stand next to lights?

NoobCannon · 26 Sep 2019 at 00:10

Merlin5 said:
Perfect, you're clearly the right man then to answer such questions. Thank you sir.

Just so that I know, are there ever any little cameras fixed to traffic lights for prosecuting light jumpers, or is it only the yellow mini gatsos that sometimes stand next to lights?

Not speed cameras/red light cameras, we have anpr and cctv regularly mounted on signal equipment.

The gatsos you see at junctions are linked too the traffic signals as they have an amber “arm” and a red “live” (cant think of a better way to describe that but you hopefully get the jist) however these are regularly dual purpose speed and jumper cameras now days.