Average Speed Cameras
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It really bugs me that on the parts of the M25 with roadworks no one has realised that where you have to drive in what would have been the fast lane for oncoming cars the cameras can't see you and continue to drive at less than 50mph.
How dare people not want to risk getting three points.
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What risk, the camera can't see through the central reservation and even if it could the two cameras are only aiming at the lanes on the 'correct' side of the road.
I noticed the other day that the temporary average speed cameras on my way to work only have the IR lamp for one camera switched on at night (you can see the faint red glow from the working one). Do they do this as a single lamp is enough to cover two lanes, or are they just not working? By the number of people I have seen doing at least 70 through the cameras I have to wonder if they know something I don't.
my mate had a ticket for 60 about 2 weeks ago
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Watch out for the camera vans on A500 too. Takes a bloody age to get up to Stoke or Hanley now, as I get on the D road at Talke so as soon as i get on the D road I hit the speed limits
Getting to OcUK in the morning isn't fun. The person who decided a temp 40mph limit would be good needs a slap!
That is honestly the first time i have ever heard that someone got a ticket from them.
Sure it wasn't a normal speed camera, mobile one?
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my mate has already done it, happily travel through them at any speed he likes, hasnt had a plate on for nearly a year, police never noticed, maybe because its a sports car that didnt have a place to put the plate in the first place anyway that you dont notice at all
nope was the specs, he is 2nd I know to be done by them
Getting to work (even at the wonderful Oc/UK!) is never fun imo....
As for the slap, I think not personally.
The 40 limit is there to protect the road workforce, not that a road worker would have much chance if he was hit by a car / van or HGV at 40MPH.....
And when its all done, you'll have to stick to 50 MPH due to the average speed cameras....
Your trip to work will remain a miserable experience for you I'm afraid.
Most average cameras will not clock you if your doing 56MPH......
well this is very simple.......DONT SPEED...............
IF you dont speed the goverment doesnt get your £60. Also on the M5/M6 at the moment they have a few 50mph zones. Sometimes their there to protect the workforce. How would you like it if you were working on a hard shoulder with cars doing 80mph +. I dont agree with cameras never had and never will but in certain isntances there the only way of inforcing the law.
I love people that spend all day googling for awnsers how to beat cameras when its really simple dont speed and failing that buy a satnav with warnings on it.
IF you dont speed the goverment doesnt get your £60. Also on the M5/M6 at the moment they have a few 50mph zones. Sometimes their there to protect the workforce. How would you like it if you were working on a hard shoulder with cars doing 80mph +. I dont agree with cameras never had and never will but in certain isntances there the only way of inforcing the law.
I love people that spend all day googling for awnsers how to beat cameras when its really simple dont speed and failing that buy a satnav with warnings on it.
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Well, I heard that they can't get you if you make sure to always drive on the hard shoulder.
Alternatively, simply drive on the opposite carriageway. It works for OAPs on mobility scooters, after all.
Same, I have never heard of anyuone ever getting a ticket from an average speed camera. I'd actually welcome a lot more of them and get rid of the single point gatso's where people slow down for 30 feet then speed right back up again.
I've had to put up with the ones on the M1 ( J25-28 ) on a daily basis for almost 3 years
The roadworks were due to end in October but I have been told it could be as early as late April
They are being replaced with variable speed limit cameras though
They're a shocker aren't they? Originally the Highways Agency were saying all that work would be over by the summer! These systems are proliferating now, a large section of the A1 at Dishforth is being made to motorway standard and the same enforced 50mph limit is in action there. Half of the time no-one seems to be working on the carriageway anyway. I can understand slowing down for when you are forced to swap lanes, but most of the times you're on dead straight sections of road. A628 near Stocksbridge has them too, but at 60mph.
A few 50 zones?! Pretty much the whole of the M6 is now 50mph.. You get through one lot of road works and another lot start 3 miles later! Plus the times I've driven down there I've only ever seen about 3 people working in total.