{"id":50073,"date":"2023-07-02T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50073"},"modified":"2023-06-29T21:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:22:39","slug":"in-pictures-cameras-cameras-everywhere-you-turn-on-blackpools-flexity2-trams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50073","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Cameras, cameras everywhere you turn on Blackpool\u2019s Flexity2 trams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year we reported on the news that Blackpool\u2019s fleet of Flexity2 trams are being fitted with a new safety system \u2013 Obstacle Detection Assistance System (ODAS). This new Alstom system has involved the fitting of cameras in the tram cabs with three just below the destination screen in those trams fitted so far, but now some trams are receiving a fourth camera.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This fourth camera is of a different design and is believed to be for CCTV. This additional camera has so far been seen on <strong>001<\/strong>, <strong>003<\/strong> and <strong>016<\/strong> and is fairly central in the cab window in between the other three cameras already in place for the safety system.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50074\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=50074\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50074\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50074\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50074\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/016-mm-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/016-mm-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/016-mm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/016-mm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/016-mm.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One end of 016 is seen here at North Pier. The three ODAS cameras are most prominent but just to the left of the second camera from the right we see the new CCTV camera. (Photograph by Michael Morton, 22nd June 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year we reported on the news that Blackpool\u2019s fleet of Flexity2 trams are being fitted with a new safety system \u2013 Obstacle Detection Assistance System (ODAS). This new Alstom system has involved the fitting of cameras in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50073\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50075,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50073\/revisions\/50075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}