Cameras target illegal trucks
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TRUCK drivers are still illegally using the Middle Ring Road — even after an overloaded truck overturned and severely damaged part of it on May 23. One driver was fined for traveling on it just six hours after the road reopened to traffic on Sunday evening.
To discourage illegal use of the Middle Ring Road and other expressways that are off limits to truck traffic, police in Pudong have introduced high-resolution ramp cameras to detect lawbreakers. As a result, more than 140 truck drivers have been ticketed for the offense over the past two weeks.
The cameras, previously used only to identify vehicles being sought by police, have been programmed to detect medium-sized to large trucks by photographing their yellow plates, which are checked manually or automatically. Jin Jun, a Pudong Traffic Police official who is in charge of the scheme, said about 15,000 yellow plates have photographed by 72 cameras placed along ramps on the Inner Ring Road, the Middle Ring Road and the Huaxia Elevated Road every day. About three million vehicles pass under the cameras every day.
Forty-three of the cameras are installed at Middle Ring Road ramps, where trucks — with only a few exceptions — are banned all day. Trucks can use the Inner Ring Road and the Huaxia Elevated Road if they have special permission.
Among the 142 trucks ticketed so far, about 50 are registered under Pudong companies, while 90 others are registered elsewhere in Shanghai or in other cities in China.
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