M4 speed cameras
06-14-2005, 06:51 AM
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M4 speed cameras
You know, the ones that are supposed to clock your speed over a distance.
I drove the M4 a couple of weeks ago and couldn't see them anywhere from jctn, it was a right pain having to go so slow when the traffic was so clear as I didn't want to risk points.
I drove the M4 a couple of weeks ago and couldn't see them anywhere from jctn, it was a right pain having to go so slow when the traffic was so clear as I didn't want to risk points.
06-14-2005, 06:56 AM
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06-14-2005, 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by StuartL,Jun 14 2005, 02:56 PM
However even the rozzers seem confused as a speed van cop I was talking to the other day thought the M4 section in question used average speed using "cameras in the overhead gantry information signs"...... i.e complete rubbish as far as I can tell!
06-14-2005, 07:46 AM
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Dunno about over distance but there are certainly Gatsos between Heston and Ealing at the London end, and all around Newport/Cardiff at the other. The former have been there at least ten years - I've been wondering where this outrage at using cameras on motorways has come from lately.
In between seems to be (mercifully) clear though.
In between seems to be (mercifully) clear though.
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On the Swindon-Bristol run the are all vans parked on bridges, with the occasional Fuzz on the side (hiding behind gantry signs in a Omega 
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The gantry signs HAVE cameras, but not speed ones .. they have one to check the sign itself and one to check traffic.
) The gantry signs HAVE cameras, but not speed ones .. they have one to check the sign itself and one to check traffic.
06-14-2005, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by grahamb,Jun 14 2005, 03:46 PM
I've been wondering where this outrage at using cameras on motorways has come from lately.
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06-15-2005, 02:23 AM
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Originally Posted by wadswoaj,Jun 14 2005, 11:15 AM
The recent outrage is the zero tolerance policy by Wiltshire police in their section of the M4....... anyone caught doing more than 70mph will be done!
I appreciate the speed limits are utter @rse but shouldn't we direct our outrage at the limits, not at the coppers doing their jobs by enforcing them?
06-15-2005, 02:48 AM
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Originally Posted by StuartL,Jun 15 2005, 11:23 AM
Maybe you shouldn't be breaking the speed limit?
I appreciate the speed limits are utter @rse but shouldn't we direct our outrage at the limits, not at the coppers doing their jobs by enforcing them?
I appreciate the speed limits are utter @rse but shouldn't we direct our outrage at the limits, not at the coppers doing their jobs by enforcing them?
Actually I prefer it if there are coppers about rather than cameras, just as long as they're of a mind to take off after idiots. Just sitting in a van zapping speeders for later prosecution is no better than a Gatso - worse in fact as it's using up a valuable 'body' which could far better serve the public by patrolling the motorway itself.
