> Rising bollards. With number-plate recognition. > > Seriously. > > At each entrance to the village (Tesco, Ely Road, Landbeach Road) have > bollards and number-plate recognisers. Bollards only let you out more than > 15 minutes after entering the village, or you can leave by the same entrance > you came in. Thus people popping in to do an errand aren't too > inconvenienced, but it stops rat-running :) Whilst technically a neat solution, Having worked for a number of years on Number plate recognition systems, I think it will seriously P*** people off, and I'm not sure it is very cost effective. though if they could couple the bollards with resident ID tags on the cars. that might be attractive ;-) we could become "Fort Milton"