average speed cameras

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mad4slalom

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noticing several sections of permanent average speed cameras springing up around cornwall, well signed so fair warning. Anyone noticed them in other counties ? as I guess it will be a new policy nationwide. aim is to stop people slowing down for the cameras and then speeding up again . they are on yellow poles with a sort of bat winged bracket , so fairly easy to spot once you know what they are. :driving:
 
They're a fact of life elsewhere. It's the new grey speed cameras on motorways (eg M1 Jn 25 area) you need to watch out for. Even if there is no lowered limit in force they are set to 70mph (plus a few presumably). They are mounted at the side of the gantries and one covers all lanes. Almost impossible to spot.
 
i travel to work on the a38 towards bham 3 average speed cameras on this section and they do work the amount of people that fly past at 70 or more then slow down for the camera .are they thick or what :headbang:
 
Robbing bast*rds. They reduced the limit at the top of the M3 where it joins with the M25 to 50mph.....and reduced it to one lane to "ease traffic". All its done for the last 7 years is cram traffic together, cause bunching and even longer queues. That was where I first saw these cameras as a permanent addition to our roads.
 
Whole of the A9 from Inverness to Perth has them in many individual sections. Has so slowed things down. On some bits if you are bored then you can come off the A road and have a B road blast for a bit and don't lose much or any time. The only thing they are trying which is good is that all wagons above 7.5t have a limit of 50 so you do get past and aren't staring at the back doors of an artic for the full journey.
 
Call me a cynic but the introduction of the so called "smart" motorways or active traffic management was supposedly to increase traffic flow at certain times but in reality it has been merely a way of introducing speed cameras to motorways :wink:
The real kick in the nuts comes from the months /years of roadworks it takes to install for what appears to be zero improvement for the motorist :?
Then there's the question i would love answering ? Why have 15/20/25 miles of roadworks causing misery for hundreds of thousands of motorists on a daily basis :evil: why not do it in concentrated stages of 2-3 miles then move on ?
I drove up the M25 - M1 on Saturday averaging 40mph over 5 hours from 9am to 2pm :thumbsdown: it was sheer purgatory after doing the same amount of miles in France which was a breeze by comparison in under 3 hours
 
I notice they do front and rear facing cameras on those now as well, so losing the front plate (fine of £60 or so?) is no longer the solution.
 
They have been on the A77 in Ayrshire for years.
A way around them is to buy a bike, they are forward facing cameras and theres no plate on the front of a bike. :D
 
The ones I passed recently are either front or back facing. They seem to swap them to catch those without plates or bikes I guess.
 
Agree me wilks :)

The managed motorways are just a backdoor method of reducing the speed limit and implementing road charging. Soon enough the sections of smart motorways will be big enough that they will cover the busiest chunks of the network and they can start charging. The govt changed the law on the quiet to allow existing roads to be tolled so there is nothing in the way anymore just infrastructure to implement it.

Guess it will be like the dart ford crossing/congestion charge. Just log in and pay or have some sort if smart tag.

Time to start cloning plates and wearing Ronald reagan masks when driving I think. Roll on self driving cars I say so I can forget about the BS around me an sit back to read a book or something.
 
mr wilks said:
Call me a cynic but the introduction of the so called "smart" motorways or active traffic management was supposedly to increase traffic flow at certain times but in reality it has been merely a way of introducing speed cameras to motorways :wink:
The real kick in the nuts comes from the months /years of roadworks it takes to install for what appears to be zero improvement for the motorist :?
Then there's the question i would love answering ? Why have 15/20/25 miles of roadworks causing misery for hundreds of thousands of motorists on a daily basis :evil: why not do it in concentrated stages of 2-3 miles then move on ?
I drove up the M25 - M1 on Saturday averaging 40mph over 5 hours from 9am to 2pm :thumbsdown: it was sheer purgatory after doing the same amount of miles in France which was a breeze by comparison in under 3 hours
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You're in danger of getting me started here, Andy! My pet hate is "Managed Motorways" - waste of time and a waste of tax payers money, I've yet to see any that actually improved trafic flow. The amount of disruption whilst installing them is ridiculous, the M6 a classic case in point - and roadworks??? What the hell are they doing on the M62? Took me ages last week just getting over to see a mate I've not seen for ages in Leeds. It was actually quicker for me to come home on the old road via Bradford

See? You've started me off now! Bitch! :D
 
Must say the managed section of the M4 merge onto the M5 N / S at Bristol is a big improvement along with introduction of busy use hard shoulder and variable speed limits

I rarely get stopped there now heading West it was a nightmare before - man it took them about two years of roadworks to get to this position though - why does it take so long ?

In comparison the Bath council Road Department Stazi have their head stuck up their ars&s - many failed attempts at what feels like anti-motorist controls - I have a vision of an office full of cyclists with vote Green Party badges who have those articulated child extensions on their cycles ( don't start me on those death traps which are all the rage around here) forming the anti-car good ideas club :cry:

Not bitter at all! :x
 
Bedford is terrible for average speed cameras.

There is at least 5 sets of them within a 5 mile radius.
 
Managed M/ways can actually work in certain places - as mentioned by Spikey above - but one or two successes and they think it's a good idea to put the bloody things everywhere, at vast expense to the taxpayer. Great long wodges of the M62 from Hull are "managed" now and whenever we get the ferry to / from the continent from there we rarely see more than 50mph all the way, even when the motorway is relatively quiet. They frustrate motorists to the point that when the managed sections end, it's like the start of Whacky Races!
 
Moheddine said:
Ya'll should move to Swindon! We're a speed camera free zone! :driving:
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Now let me think...Where do Charles & Camilla live ?
Funny how the cameras all disappeared in Wiltshire after a few embarrasing captures...
 
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