Leicester Traffic Control

George Orwell's nightmare or a simple traffic control issue? Closed circuit television (or creepy-peepy television) on show in Leicester in 1966.

Leicester's City Planning Officer, Konrad Smigielski, had called for a monorail, electric rickshaws and a moving pedestrian walkway for the city two years earlier but when ATV Today's David Lloyd visited in 1966 it was a different kind of technology on show. Closed circuit cameras had previously been tried out in London but here was a full system in use that controlled traffic lights, the flow of buses in the city and even included radio talk-back.