Its been posted on here somewhere and announced on Top Gear that the police have said they are not installing any more speed traps/cameras. But i have seen new ones on the M1 near leicester and new ones on the M6 at stoke and M6 Coventry side of Brum? and thats all in the last 2 or 3 weeks? I know nothing can be done about it but WTF is going on in this 5hite country full of lieing cooonts?

 

The cameras are those p0xy ones that count you in and then count you out and average the speed you were doing.

I think its only a matter of time before the twats get em up everywhere.

Theres lots of them SPECS cameras along stocksbridge bypass - about 6 miles of doing 60mph along (some) open dual carriageway!! :xxx:

there are temporary average speed cameras (SPECS i think) around junction 20 and 21 of M1 due to road works, but it wouldnt surprise me in the least if even more have gone up :headvswal

Its been posted on here somewhere and announced on Top Gear that the police have said they are not installing any more speed traps/cameras. But i have seen new ones on the M1 near leicester and new ones on the M6 at stoke and M6 Coventry side of Brum? and thats all in the last 2 or 3 weeks? I know nothing can be done about it but WTF is going on in this 5hite country full of lieing cooonts?

 

The cameras are those p0xy ones that count you in and then count you out and average the speed you were doing.

 

Its mobile units that they are going to faze out, because they are totally in accurate and it has been proven now on many occasion. The government has made millions from their use and sooner or later the news papers will cease to be gagged. If that happens the compensation claims will cost nearly a third of what it costs us to bring in house and keep the next wave of terrorists for a week. + give them free internet access so they can get the bomb making instructions.

 

Now let face it what british government wants to do right by law abiding British Cityzens who have been unjustly treated. When we can bring in more religious Zelots to kill us and destroy stuff making our lives more of a pain.

 

So they won't be installing anymore camera vans.

Upper Thames Street 20mph speed limit time/distance camera enforcement

 

23.06.05

 

The cameras should track drivers as they drive through a section of road covered by a 20 mph speed limit, this is in place to protect vulnerable road users during road works while the lanes are narrowed. However, the cameras have been positioned so they start monitoring drivers while they are still in the 30mph speed limit.

 

Due to the calibration of the cameras all of the motorists who have received a fixed penalty notice must have been breaking the speed limit at some point in the cameras enforcement area. However, the LSCP has decided to cancel all of the tickets, repay the fines and rescind the penalty points.

 

The cameras are new technology and are currently only used at two sites in the capital – Upper Thames Street and Tower Bridge.

 

An investigation is being carried out between LSCP and equipment suppliers. Until the signs are repositioned the time-distance cameras will not operate and mobile enforcement will take place at this site.

and the best bit!!

 

Q&A

 

What about people who have had their insurance premium affected by points on their licence?

People affected will have to take the issue up with their insurers.

 

Aren’t speed cameras just about making cash?

No, the London Safety Camera Partnership’s success is measured on reductions of casualties on London’s roads (see casulaty stats below). The Partnership has no financial incentives whatsoever :xxx: :xxx: :xxx: :xxx:

Don't get me started. They've put up a load more speed camera signs on the A14 around the Milton and Histon exits. No cameras yet though, but they are known to use mobile units along this stretch, so I'm not sure whether they are warning of these or not. Honestly it's true though, on speed camera stretches I spend far more time looking at the speedo than I normally would, and this obviously diverts my attention from the road ahead, which doesn't seem like a great idea to me. Grr.

And, as I pointed out elsewhere, they don't catch people on their phones whilst driving, nor do they catch:

 

- drunk drivers

- drug drivers

- people who don't indicate

- people who intimidate other drivers by driving right up their backside etc

- people who undertake (including those using bus lanes to do so)

- lane-hogs

- people who can't keep their smegging cars in between the white lines helpfully painted on the tarmac on those roundabouts where the lanes spiral out from the centre (I mean, how hard can it possibly be)

- people otherwise driving without due care and attention

- people driving dangerously (overtaking on bends etc)

 

I could probably go on, but I'm tired of my own complaints.

Only time I dont mind cameras are on roadworks on motorways to keep people at 40mph and protect the workers who are seperated from traffic only by plastic cones, I can see the point and understand those ones. ALL others should be burnt.

In Finland they cant afford cameras to every location where they've put up camera stands, so they move the camera back and forth between the stands. During sunny days you can spot the stand on a quite a long distance and see if it holds a camera :rofl:

In Finland they cant afford cameras to every location where they've put up camera stands, so they move the camera back and forth between the stands. During sunny days you can spot the stand on a quite a long distance and see if it holds a camera :rofl:

Do they catch many people? Sounds like a waste of time to me!

In Finland they cant afford cameras to every location where they've put up camera stands, so they move the camera back and forth between the stands. During sunny days you can spot the stand on a quite a long distance and see if it holds a camera :rofl:

 

Seen that a lot here too. Usually so they can move it from one side of the road to the other. Most of them are empty too, without the expensive camera part or film in, as they transfer them to other cameras.

Only time I dont mind cameras are on roadworks on motorways to keep people at 40mph and protect the workers who are seperated from traffic only by plastic cones, I can see the point and understand those ones. ALL others should be burnt.

 

 

I agree with you BUT I think they should at least lift the restriction at night? There is nothing worse than having to do 40MPH when there are 3 perfectly good lanes and no one working at that time?

http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=53948&highlight=m25

- drunk drivers

- drug drivers

- people who don't indicate

- people who intimidate other drivers by driving right up their backside etc

- people who undertake (including those using bus lanes to do so)

- lane-hogs

- people who can't keep their smegging cars in between the white lines helpfully painted on the tarmac on those roundabouts where the lanes spiral out from the centre (I mean, how hard can it possibly be)

- people otherwise driving without due care and attention

- people driving dangerously (overtaking on bends etc)

 

 

What about me?? :p

What about me??

 

LOL. Dunno, depends how fast you go.