Ok weird one,

Has anyone travelled on the stretch of the A1 at Peterborough?

It goes from a 2 lane mickey-mouse bendy twot of a road into a lurrvlee 4 lane highway, and I think no Gatso (if it has like Andy in the other thread im going to jail!)

I usually blow the coke out of the Zed up this stretch of road and noticed a surreal thing:

There are gantries over the road every half mile or so, and these things are not usually illuminated with anything at all, I floor the car upto 140mph-odd and a very, very spooky red cross "X" appears above on the next gantry in my lane only (there are four dot-matrixy signs above each lane) - I slow down to about 100mph and the next gantry, same red cross of doom, slow down to 85mph... no red cross.

Now if this is an initiative to warn drivers of their speed then im all for it, if not .. well I'm going to get a rather nasty letter in the post requesting my driving licence

Any ideas on this?

 

 

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Glen

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I have never heard of this before. I doubt it was anything to do with you. The red cross means do not proceed in this lane any further (i think) They would not use this as it could be dangerous and cause accidents and the law abiding drivers behind you would see it as well and maybee try to brake or switch lanes etc.. Hope this puts your mind at rest a bit.

Paul

Thanks for that Paul, but it was down to my speed, this X cross, I speeded up to 95mph and the cross comes back, I really would love to know what the score is with this.

I counted three crosses at over 90mph, then none at under 90mph, then it came back when I went over 90 again.

Freaked the hell outta me I must say, tho it was a few months back so not too worried about ensuing nastiness, thank krishna!

Still its a 4 lane highway, dead straight and hardly ever busy, it's well lit and perfectly flat, so if it ever goes to court ill claim that by building roads like this they encourage speeding LOL

My aim is to get the Zed upto 170+mph and see if I can turn the red X into a green ?question mark? hehe

 

 

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Glen

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Glen nevermind all that mate, you're up round Peterboro'??? Wanna meet up for a beer or what you elusive thing!