18/09/2026
Info hubs and CCTV yay !
📸 PENZANCE IS GETTING CAMERAS… BEHAVE YOURSELVES, YOU LOT 😂
Well Penzance, apparently we’ve reached the stage where road signs alone aren’t cutting the mustard anymore.
Market Jew Street is getting ANPR cameras to enforce the traffic restrictions.
Why?
Because apparently up to 600 vehicles A DAY are still going through during the restricted 11am–4pm period.
SIX. HUNDRED.
A day.
That’s not the occasional confused tourist from Birmingham following a sat-nav.
That’s practically a fu***ng parade. 😂
For anyone who’s somehow missed it for the last few years, Market Jew Street has restrictions during the day designed to reduce traffic through the town centre and make it a bit less likely you’ll get flattened while wandering across the road with a Warren’s pasty.
But clearly the current system of…
putting up signs and hoping people read them
…hasn’t quite delivered the desired results.
So now we’re entering Phase Two: Penzance Big Brother. 📸😂
Cameras are planned for both ends of Market Jew Street, with enforcement also covering the no-right-turn from Adelaide Street and the buses-only restriction at the Market Place end.
And here’s where it gets interesting.
Because when the Healthy Streets scheme was being developed, one of the options mentioned for controlling access was rising bollards/barriers.
Which does make you wonder…
If the objective is to stop unauthorised vehicles driving through…
Why not actually…
stop unauthorised vehicles driving through? 😂
Imagine it.
Bus approaches.
Bollard goes down.
Bus passes.
Bollard comes back up.
Dave in his Qashqai thinks the restrictions don’t apply to him…
BONK.
Problem solved.
Obviously there are rather more practical considerations involved than MPB’s internationally acclaimed “just stick a fu***ng bollard there” transport policy.
Emergency access, authorised vehicles, maintenance, breakdowns, installation costs and the minor issue of somebody inevitably trying to follow a bus through and discovering that bollards have absolutely no sense of humour.
But it does highlight the difference between the two approaches.
A barrier is designed to prevent you doing it.
A camera is designed to catch you doing it.
And inevitably that’s where the cries of “MONEY MAKING SCHEME!” will start.
For balance, Cornwall Council says revenue from moving-traffic enforcement is subject to rules about what it can be spent on, with surpluses going towards transport-related purposes.
So we’ll leave the conspiracy theories to Facebook’s Department of Things Dave Heard Down The Pub.
What we really want to know is…
Which would you rather have?
📸 Cameras enforcing the existing restrictions?
🚧 A physical barrier/bollard stopping unauthorised traffic altogether?
🤷 Or just reopen the bloody road and accept that crossing Market Jew Street occasionally involves the reflexes of a Premier League goalkeeper?
Either way, if you’re currently one of the hundreds apparently cruising through during restricted hours…
Enjoy it while it lasts, bey.
Because soon Market Jew Street isn’t just going to see you.
It’s going to remember your number plate. 😂📸
