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103 posts & 38 voices | Started 2 years ago by Trekster | Latest reply from TheLittlestHobo

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TheLittlestHobo - Member

Have to drive past the M6 speed cameras every day upto 4 times a day. No porblem tbh. It says 50mph as you enter it. It states about 5,500 people caught in big letters and the cameras are bright yellow. With all that in place, you really do have to be simple to get caught. People still go blaring past me.

Whats the big deal. It states a speed limit and if you exceed it you get points & fine. I would quadruple the fine if i was in charge. You really have absolutely no excuses considering all the warnings in place.

Posted 2 years ago #
TheLittlestHobo - Member

Oh and the A75 is a bit of a pian Trekster. I have done it 8 times this week. TBH i have come to the conclusion its not worth trying to pass people. Even idiots that go hell for leather to get past people only ever end up a few hundred yards ahead on the entire carlisle to dumfries journey

Posted 2 years ago #
hora - Member

It says 50mph as you enter it. It states about 5,500 people caught in big letters and the cameras are bright yellow. With all that in place, you really do have to be simple to get caught

Seriously? Then that really worries me that people dont have any awareness of their environment when they are driving.

Idiots.

Posted 2 years ago #
TheLittlestHobo - Member

Yep, it really is that well signed.

Posted 2 years ago #
wrightyson - Member

[quote]I thought half term had finished?
Your point is Hora?

Posted 2 years ago #
aracer - Member

I agree the people getting caught are idiots if it's a well signed visible fixed camera (assuming of course it's not a forward facing fixed camera like the ones on the A14 - in which case you've been done before you see the camera). It's still revenue generation not a safety thing, but they deserve to get done for having that poor observation.

"The moral of this story, is DO NOT GO TO SCOTLAND, everyone up there clearly drives like a total psycho and you will die!"
Actually I tend to notice that the farther south I get the faster people drive on motorways.

Graham - you still appear to be missing the point that you can drive fast (especially on a motorway) without being a total psycho, but you can drive like a total psycho within the speed limit. The point you're replying to was after all partly a response to my story where I reckon the idiot probably wasn't breaking the speed limit.

Posted 2 years ago #
TandemJeremy - Member

aracer - it is not about revenue generation - that is a myth. NO profits are made. You may not agree with speed cameras - but on the A9 they are not too frequent and its a road with lots of speeding and regular deaths.

Posted 2 years ago #
aracer - Member

NO profits are made.

You mean that camera cost £350k to install and run?

You may not agree with speed cameras - but on the A9 they are not too frequent and its a road with lots of speeding and regular deaths.

Surprisingly enough I'm not totally anti - quite in favour of them in appropriate urban 30 limits - it's just that many protect inappropriate speed limits and they're not the road safety panacea they're made out to be.

Are the speeding and deaths on the A9 linked, or do they nab lots of people driving safely above the limit, whilst the ones killing themselves and others in head ons would have done so whether or not they were within the limit?

Posted 2 years ago #
druidh - Member

The ones on the A9 are at known accident black spots. These accidents are typically caused by folk overtaking when visibility is limited or at the end of a dual-carriageway section when you get a last-second lunge along the hatchings.

Posted 2 years ago #
TandemJeremy - Member

No - I mean all the fine are ploughed back into the cameras - they are actually quite expensive to run, analyse the pics, chase people for proescution, court time and so on.

Posted 2 years ago #
Dougal - Member

Good to see lots of good positive arguments on this thread. Definitely for Terry's view that you should have respect for those working on a contraflow, and stick to the limit.

Drove through the Carlisle works on Friday evening. Loads of people doing frankly silly speeds through them to save what only amounts to a minute or two added to their journey.

Generally find the A9 to be OK if you drive sensibly and try to avoid anyone who is driving a bit lairy. Not always possible though as mentioned above.

Posted 2 years ago #
konabunny - Member

Oh dear, most of you really wouldn't like what I'm CAD modelling right now....

Is it a giant mug of tea? I like tea.

Posted 2 years ago #
hora - Member

You mean that camera cost £350k to install and run?

A STW'er would borrow a mates trailer and along with a few friends errect each speed camera for the cost of a few pints and a laugh.

Highways Agency probably has specialist articulated lorries, specific trained employees, H&S advisor onsite, site manager, drawings, concrete mixer and delivery etc to set the foundations etc (if its freestanding)? Plus the maintanance, admin and support team to send out and administer calls etc from the oxygen thieves who cant match simple numbers...

In general, its not rocket science is it? Theres a series of big clear signs warning you along with text telling you. Yet some people are either blind or beleive in the internet myths that no one is ever caught.

Posted 2 years ago #
hora - Member

...Plus the public liability insurance for each camera incase of a freak accident caused by said camera or camera post/housing?

Posted 2 years ago #
solamanda - Member

All I can say is Motorbikes FTW. No front number plate, oh yes.

[/dons flame proof jacket]

Posted 2 years ago #
boblo - Member

Ahhh the perenial STW speed camera thread....

In the blue corner; the 'you vile antisocial bastards, how could you go faster than n mph. All children will instantly die as a direct result of your actions'.

In the red corner; 'why am I being picked on by these mobile cash machines, I'm only trying to get to work and what's wrong with ignoring any limitation placed on me by society/rozzers/traffic laws?'

Let the (pointless) fight continue....

Posted 2 years ago #
TandemJeremy - Member

Boblo - you forgot "if you can't do the time don't do the crime". Or - "speed if you want to, don't bleat about it when you are caught"

Posted 2 years ago #
boblo - Member

indeed....

Posted 2 years ago #
trail_rat - Member

drove the a9 tonight - if you missed the 6 foot tall yellow 2 lanes into 1 sign - with a big 60 in a red circle above it - you deserve a speeding ticket .....

although since it was empty and no one was on it i drove with my foot to the floor (awaits abuse but i do drive a vehicle capible of no more than 75mph on a downhill ......)

Posted 2 years ago #
martinxyz - Member

the past few nights driving home ive kept at the speed limit. so that means going up to 70 in the duals after sticking to 60 in the 60`s.. and it seems to be pissing more folk off than if i drove about 75/85.driving through the roadworks over the past week just north of aviemore at 30-35 is seriously causing a lot of people behind me grief.then when i go up to 60mph they are miles behind and seriously pissed off. which means that approx a mile later they are now closing in on me and deciding to go right up behind me.

come the dual carriageway.. i nip up to 70 and it rages them as they are yet again, miles back because they have a shit slow vehicle and ive pissed them off by getting upto the speed limit.sometimes the ones that like to annoy will then sit behind you at 70mph thru the dual carriageway only to be right up yer tail come the 60mph again.

were they dropped at birth?

wtf can you do?

Posted 2 years ago #
hora - Member

All I can say is Motorbikes FTW. No front number plate, oh yes.

Ah yes, the workers are probably repairing the road surface for you or removing the slice&dicers from the central reservation. **** em though, the need for speed rules all and not minor dickheads who cant get a better job than roadworks

Posted 2 years ago #
TandemJeremy - Member

Martin - be considerate and let them past? Be safe and let them past - or push off into the distance. I will never ever let anyone tailgate me - I usually just slow down and let them past.

Posted 2 years ago #
cynic-al - Member

60 in dual carriageways no?

Posted 2 years ago #
TandemJeremy - Member

Nope - 70 in duals, 60 on singles

Posted 2 years ago #
trail_rat - Member

i had a classic last night chump in a 4x4 doing 60 - i accelerated to 72mph or there abouts coming onto the dualer - toook him an eternity to get up to speed to pass me - over took me then slowed down to 50 on the 60 ..... do some people just feel the need to be infront and go slow ?

so that makes letting tail gaters past a moot point although its easier too watch the **** out the windscreen (i have no rear windows)

Posted 2 years ago #
miaowing_kat - Member

people who pull out in front of you on a country road, when there's hardly any other traffic, but causing you to break, - and then they drive really really slowly! - WHY - if you're so impatient that you couldn't wait for me to drive past before pulling out, how can you afford the time to go 20mph below the speed limit???

(yeah.. soz, realise my post wasn't entirely relevant to the rest of the thread..)

Posted 2 years ago #
aka_Gilo - Member

miaowing cat - totally agree with you, proper boils my p!ss it does.

Posted 2 years ago #
Strangelove - Member

miaowing cat - That happens to me almost every day and never ceases to annoy me. One more reason to cycle to work.

Posted 2 years ago #
boblo - Member

Break? You must be very fragile....

Posted 2 years ago #
miaowing_kat - Member

I'm a delicate girl... whenever a mean motorist is inconsiderate towards me and my car I break down in tears
(seriously though, it's a proper learning curve when it comes to taking road 'incidents' as nothing personal)

Posted 2 years ago #
boblo - Member

miaowing_kat - Member
seriously though, it's a proper learning curve when it comes to taking road 'incidents' as nothing personal

Unfortunately, the level of antisocial, pig ignorance seen on the roads (and elsewhere) seems to have increased exponentially over the past few years. Not personal, just another symptom of the 'me me me' times we live in.

Posted 2 years ago #
GrahamS - Member

60 in dual carriageways no?

70 in a car, as per TJ.

I remain convinced that a significant proportion of drivers either don't know this, are unsure what a dual carriageway is, or are unsure what this sign means:

My wife had been driving for over 15 years when she informed me that a dual carriageway was "an A-road with two lanes"

Posted 2 years ago #
TheLittlestHobo - Member

5611 caught on the M6. Thats this mornings figure

Posted 2 years ago #