Specs 3

Yey, more policemen in a box, don't mind them so much on the motorway since they have helped around the M25 BUT sticking them on A-Roads :(
 
Great, more reason for people to speedo watch and cause silly accidents. I assume this will just be a Motorway type affair.
 
Dup said:
Great, more reason for people to speedo watch and cause silly accidents. I assume this will just be a Motorway type affair.
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The new cameras, known as Specs3, will cost typically £300,000 per network. They are likely to be deployed first on long rural A roads, where crashes occur frequently but in many different places, making it impractical to deploy conventional speed cameras, which each cover less than 100 yards of road.
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Gah. The A59 I use to get to work has lots of random accidents, usually late at night when the only two cars on there manage to taker each other out. It would be classed as a rural A road too.

People drive slow as it is on there, with added speedo watching it would be dangerous. I would end up driving through the village to avoid it and if many others do it will just provoke even worse conjestion.
 
anticonscience said:
Is it correct what Jeremy Clarkson said about these?

That if you change lane it cannot detect your average speed.
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Look like these are the next generation where lane changing won't help. I can see an increase of plate cloning/falsely registered vehicles looming.

The Specs on the A14 are just tedious, all lanes drop to a uniform 5-10 mph below the limit. With no speed differentiation between lanes you're unable to make progress through the traffic until the zone ends. If the whole road network ends up like that long journeys are going to become horrible.
 
Jim Fitzpatrick, the Road Safety Minister, said yesterday that the new cameras would bring significant safety benefits as well as reduce congestion by making traffic flow more smoothly.
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smoothly =! acceptable
 
On the M1 the number of casualties halved after average-speed cameras were introduced on a contraflow between junctions 6a and 10.
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Its things like this which annoy me. Casualties in roadworks are a very rare thing, so much so that even had they not bothered to put the cameras on casualties would probably have halved anyway - because if one person dies this year and two people died last year, casualties have halved but the number of casualties isn't sufficient to make any sort of judgement from!
 
Another thought - long rural A roads, average speed..

I dont know about you guys but when I'm pressing on down a Rural A road on a journey my average speed isnt really that far above 60, especially when you consider having to slow for bends, junctions, overtake slower cars, etc.
 
It is only "Money Grabbing" if you contribute.
I'm yet to ever contribute to the Safety Camera Partnership in any way shape or form.
So as far as I'm concerned they can keep on rolling out what they like - it doesn't cost me a thing.

But there - I can concentrate on the road and see when/where I need to travel at certain speeds.
 
[TW]Fox;12660213 said:
Another thought - long rural A roads, average speed..

I dont know about you guys but when I'm pressing on down a Rural A road on a journey my average speed isnt really that far above 60, especially when you consider having to slow for bends, junctions, overtake slower cars, etc.
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From start of the road to the end of the road, you're probably right. But from camera to camera? I can see average speeds beeing significantly higher.

Echoing what was said above, I reckon plate theft/cloning will be on the increase if this is introduced.
 
I bet they make them all forward facing, then push through legislation to force motorcycles to have front number plates.

That would be funny if it wasn't so likely to happen.
 
As long as they don't put them on back roads and other minor routes I don't care. It's not like speeding on motorways is particularly a wise thing to do even today.

Remains to be seen whether they will allow the unofficial 80mph limit on motorways though.
 
Sigh.

I can see a time in the not too distant future when there is 100% specs coverage of the entire road network.

:(
 
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