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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent

‘People are fed up’: sensor to spot loud drivers splits opinion in Keighley

Car driving past noise camera on Fell Lane.
The technology combines video cameras with noise detectors. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer

Fell Lane may look like a quiet residential street – and during the daylight hours it is – but at night, it turns into a racetrack for those who want to push their car to the limit.

As a result, the road, which stretches from Keighley town centre to the Yorkshire Moors, has been labelled one of the noisiest in the UK by the Department for Transport (DfT), making it the perfect place to run a £300,000 trial of cutting-edge noise cameras.

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