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Councils accused of breaking pollution laws to enforce green road closures
Vehicles with the system have been spotted parked up with their engines running while trying to catch drivers emerging from shut roads
12 December 2020 • 5:59pm
ANPR cars enforcing green roads are idling to power CCTV cameras fitted to the vehicle in Enfield
Credit: Eddie Mulholland
Councils have been accused of breaking pollution laws by leaving stationary cars idling for hours to power mobile CCTV cameras fining motorists breaching newly closed roads introduced as part of Grant Shapps’s so-called “green transport revolution”, The Telegraph can reveal.
Diesel and petrol vehicles fitted with automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology have been spotted parked up with their engines running while trying to catch drivers emerging from roads closed to create “low traffic neighbourhoods”.