[Closed] Average speed cameras - am i missing something.

Does anyone know anyone who's ever got a ticket from an average speed camera? I travel through various sets a lot but have never heard/met anyone who's been done?

Heard of a few mates being got by them because they thought they were able to brake for the camera itself. There was one on the M6 near my old house for a while, it claimed ~250 fines per month on a big sign just near the camera.

I know that on ones with contra flows its more to do with the road no longer being a dual carrigeway and if you hit some one doing 70 the other way its a bit like hitting a wall at 140 and after seeing the after marth of a head on between a car doing 60 (police estimate)and a lorry doing 56 i would much rather slow down to the posted speed limit.

Whatever happened to contraflows? Not been through one of those for ages - the 50 limits I've seen have still had a nice solid barrier between me and traffic going the other way (in some cases where they've been renewing the central barrier, this has been a very solid lump of concrete between the traffic and where the workers would be if there were any). In any case, I've always wondered why not 60 if that's the justification, given we're trusted to do that speed on normal SCs.

Whatever happened to contraflows? Not been through one of those for ages

There's plenty still around - they often still use them when they split one lane off & direct it to the other carriageway
I tend to avoid that lane if poss