Another Clanger ... they just keep on coming here in Sunderland

A stretch of road beside the Stadium of Light has become the most lucrative in the North East for Northumbria Police's Speed Cameras.
The location has netted over 11,000 motorists.
However, we can now reveal a catalogue of errors for this stretch of road and, pending the outcome of our investigations and handing over of certain files, may force the refunds for many motorists who have been fined illegally.
It appears as though the road is still classed as 'unrestricted' and therefore 60mph speed limit applies.
As the road was opened before street lighting columns were erected the 'restriction' to 30mph must be applied by means of a Traffic Order. The council has confirmed that there is no TO in place.
On top of that it appears as though the speed camera vehicle was parked across the cycle track to collect driver offences. As the police can only do this in an emergency and with lights flashing it appears as though they may not have acted lawfully.

And now the one which was slipped to council the other day...on 6th February 2006 a proposal was made for the council to 'adopt' the road. All this time, since it was built, it has been unadopted.
It was unadopted when the councillors agreed to call the road Keir Hardy Way some seven or so years ago.
Now the same councillors have already stated that there is no money available to adopt the unadopted roads in and around the former pit village areas. The question has to be 'how much money have they already spent on this unadopted road and who is responsible for this cock-up?'