7:13pm Wednesday 26th September 2007
By Echo Reporter
WORK has begun on the installation of a new traffic monitoring camera on the A354 between Weymouth and Dorchester.
The camera, near the Winterborne Herringston turning at Monkton Hill, will keep track on congestion and journey times on the road.
It is part of a new county-wide survey designed to help Dorset County Council plan for the influx of visitors for the 2012 Olympics.
The camera will record traffic speed, volume and flow to determine when the road is at its busiest.
County council network traffic control team leader Matthew Williams said: "We are not interested in enforcement, just the number of vehicles that go past the camera and how long it takes to go from camera to camera."
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