Overview
- Local camera enforcement is active in Birmingham and Solihull and has recorded very large offence volumes in 2026, concentrated on a few streets.
- Birmingham's bus‑gate and bus‑lane cameras have caught roughly 17,873 drivers on Broad Street this year and 17,909 penalties were recorded at three Moor Street Queensway sites up to the end of May 2026.
- Average‑speed cameras on Lee Bank Middleway/Belgrave Middleway have logged 6,939 speeding offences so far in 2026, and other routes such as New John Street West have also seen thousands of detections.
- Solihull switched on moving‑traffic cameras in early June at the A34 Stratford Road/Richard Lewis Way and will add three more sites; the council is issuing a six‑month written‑warning for first offences and a £70 PCN reduced to £35 if paid promptly for subsequent or later offences.
- Councils point to safety, congestion and air‑quality goals and plan to ring‑fence enforcement revenue to make schemes self‑funding, while reporting and surveys show many drivers do not fully understand yellow‑box and bus‑gate rules which helps explain high breach numbers.