Achtung! New motorway speed cameras

[forddeliveryboy]

http://www.driving.co.uk/news/drivers-warned-to-stick-to-70mph-as-motorway-speed-cameras-arrive-by-stealth/

[chaseracer]

That's me fecked then, after my encounter yesterday with baldy-psycho-Mercman... 

[MarvinsMom]

stick too the speedlimits shown and there is nothing for you to worry about

[sutty2006]

Just a cash guzzling way of earning them more money. M6 there is a camera every 200 yrds in certain areas. You could loose your licence for being 80 plus in a mile. Load of bollocks. Big brother is watching you (the motorist)

[egg]

The first were fully activated near the Clacket Lane services, between junctions 5 and 6 of the M25 on October 22 last year. 

 

Is that the downhill bit (anti-clockwise) I can't remember? Everyone goes a bit faster there.

[Bren]

Our motorways are shit anyway - best avoided if possible.

[Stanky]

I'm bloody lucky if I can crack 60mph for more than a mile on a motorway around here. 70+ mph be damned.

[fordperv]

Bastards utter bastards, they continue to bleed motorists dry claiming it's for safety, what a load of tossers

[GoGently]

Even we slow coaches are getting caught out. car took 1/4 mile to get near 60mph only to be flashed in an confusing 50mph stretch.

 

best ever was on A1 in a old 2cv flashed at at least four times in one journey not going above 70, no letter as yet.

 

Ahhh Go Gently

[chaseracer]

stick too the speedlimits shown and there is nothing for you to worry about

 

 

That's a bit difficult when there's some psycho trying to push you off the road.  How's the view from up there on your high horse?

 

FFS...

[MarvinsMom]

That's a bit difficult when there's some psycho trying to push you off the road.  How's the view from up there on your high horse?

 

FFS...

 

"the closer you get, then the slower i go"

[richardmorris]

Drive a 2cv. Never need worry about 70mph cameras! The merc, can happily cruise at 80 ( in France anyway), but what stops me is the cost of the fuel. Generally I'm happy in the inside lane at 70 over here- on the m25 it's often moving faster than the other lanes anyway.

 

To be fair though, if you don't speed you can't get fined. The bugbear for me is that the standard of driving is generally appalling but there are no police to be seen. Yet, if these people who are changing lanes without warning or looking, tailgating and using their phone are within the speed limit they are not going to be noticed.

[richardmorris]

Bastards utter bastards, they continue to bleed motorists dry claiming it's for safety, what a load of tossers

Is it for safety or just enforcing the law with a fine and points as a deterrent? Governments like fining people for infringements of certain laws. They can call it road safety, but more traffic police would be safer.

 

Some idiot doing 50 in the outside lane of a dual-carriageway ( on the a322 only last week) when he and I are the only cars on the road at 23.45 ( the revenant is a long film!) is more of a danger to others than someone doing 75mph.

[chaseracer]

Irony is, I'm usually in lane 1 or 2 at 65-70.  Tried to get clear of psycho-bastard, didn't clock 50 sign on the overhead.  Fortunately, dash cam was on.

 

I'll check how many nuns or kittens were harmed and report back.

[gordonbennet]

Half the problem is drivers don't look about them, if its not in that 30' arc a maximum of 100 yards on front of the bonnet its not visible.

 

Thursday and today i went up to Wakefield, so straight up the M1, the section from jct28 to 30 is nearing completion and the average speed cameras have gone, BUT the matrix signs are showing 50 limit (red bordered numbers so not an advisory) for most of that section and lots of drivers must have thought they could do 80+ in licence safety, not so cos on some of the nearside gantries sit the new smart cameras that span all lanes, whether they are activated yet i don't know.

 

You've got to keep yer mincers peeled.

[captain_70s]

As cars get safer and more stable at speed we are told to drive slower. Naturally.

 

Not that I care much, 70 is better for fuel economy and the route down to Glasgow is littered with average speed cameras anyway.

[Isaac Hunt]

What peas me off is all the bollux about road safety and the poor signage. If a speed limit camera is for safety then it should be differentiated by better signage. In areas where speed is less of an issue then the limits should be revised to make up for the miles we have to drive at 49.99mph for the safety of the cones.

[richardmorris]

In France if you see a sign warning of a speed camera you can guarantee that there is one within the next mile. And that sign also has the speed limit posted on it. It doesn't seem to be the same here.

 

There are some archaic rules about posting 30 mph reminders too. 40 and above is fine, but you have to rely on counting lamp posts for 30. Having said that, you should be paying attention when driving.

 

Had some twerp in a bmw m5 the other week take great affront at me driving at 30mph in a 30 zone past a school. As soon as it was clear he over took, swerved in front and slammed his brakes on. Then proceeded to drive at 25mph in the then 40 mph limit whilst a queue of cars built up behind him.

 

We need more policing, not more cameras.

[Isaac Hunt]

Big signs, big signs, warnings, then a camera, no probes with that in areas of concern. It is the poor signage that tells me a lot of it is about revenue, not safety. I nearly ran a guy over in a 30mph zone once, I didn't see him step off the pavement, I was too busy making sure the speedo was on 29.99mph.

[Pillock]

"the closer you get, then the slower i go"

I followed a 206 with this sticker on the back last week. I was tempted to make it a challenge, and see how close I could get before they had to come to a full stop.

 

I wouldn't have minded but I was close since they were doing 65 in the second lane of a dual carriageway with nothing for half a mile in lane 1

 

 

Anyway, those cameras are about as stealthy as me after six cans of Old Speckled Hen. You can see them better than the old ones, and you can see the cameras that are a couple of hundred yards upstream too.

[MikeKnight]

I dare not go 80+ in the Supra, otherwise I'll have to buy a fuel tanker to follow me around.

 

Hit 65 or so and stick the cruise control on then figuratively fall asleep.

[JayW]

I don't generally drive fast (my daily pulls 20mpg), but the existing speed limits are antiquated.

 

The main problem is lack of driver education and ability. There is a time, place and conditions for speed.

 

Much like the highway codes braking distances, no one's bothered to update anything because it's just easier for Whitehall to line it's pockets than do so.

 

You thought this was a democracy? Sorry.

[Junkman]

Where shall I transfer the money they finance my further enslavement with?

[Ghosty]

On some smart motorway gantries, there's a speed camera sign on the front and a camera literally behind the sign.

 

Smart motorways can fuck off.

• Hard shoulder is not for driving on. Ever.
• They never show 70.
• Almost always 50.
• Anally enforced 50 = driving paranoid of speed cameras = distraction
• 50 is bad news because you get HGVs playing the overtaking game (fucking Working Time Directive) and 3-4 lanes of cars/trucks constantly switching lanes/cutting up/people going from the outside to a slip road in one fell swoop
• HGVs shouldn't be allowed to overtake on motorways, and they should all have to keep to the inside (M62 over the moors is literal hell): fuck the Working Time Directive (this is the root cause of the 'I'm lighter than you' 1mph game)
• because of all the HGVs half the cars end up either stuck on the outside unable to move/boxed in, or stuck on the inside scared to move out, and then HGVs thunder past because we're all doing 40 for the amount of cars scared to move and slow HGVs 
• The fucking roadworks.
• Average speed cameras.
• If we can all only do 50 we'll never get anywhere
• etc

[brownnova]

I used to take around 2hrs 10 mins to do the journey from my house to my parents... Since the introduction of smart motorways it is often 2 1/2 to 3 now. Apparently they reduce journey times according to the research... Well not in my experience. Smart motorways and middle lane hoggers are the main reasons I dislike motorways...

[UmBongo]

I hate driving on motorways because they are used by people with 'the closer you get, the slower I go' stickers in their rear screens.

 

And that.

[sierraman]

There's just general nobheadness on the roads. Driving home yesterday this cunt in a Corsa was up my arse all the way through a 30. He was that close I could see all the poundland 'car mod' tat he displayed on his dash, the din of the drainpipe exhaust and his Skegness £1.99 sunglasses. So the closer he got to me the more I stuck to 30. Then we comes to a junction at a roundabout, with a straight ahead lane and a right turn lane, like a twat he decides to use the right hand lane to overtake in a piss poor attempt to cut me up on the roundabout. Unfortunately his plan went to cock and I wasn't letting him cut in front of us all so he nearly hit the central reservation. This is why we end up with silly rules imposed on us because of fools like this.

[Split_Pin]

I stick to the limits where conditions allow yada yada. I've got a "You get close I go slow" sticker in my rear window.

 

9mph is my current record.

 

KISS MY RINGPIECE M9z

[purplebargeken]

We need more policing, not more cameras. 

 

No. We need more bonnet mounted missile launchers.

[New POD]

Our motorways are shit anyway - best avoided if possible.

 

Unless you actually want to go any distance in less than a day.

 

I'm commuting to Derby from L37 weekly.

 

On a good run it's 1 hour 45 mins  to do 110 miles. On a bad day 3 hours. using the M6.  Normally it's 2 hours 15 mins

 

 I've tried NOT using the M6.

 

You can go via Leek and Congleton. and get snarled up in traffic. 3 hours is about the best you can hope for.

 

You can head towards the A41 and up to Chester but it will be 3 hours or more if you hit the Mersey tunnel at the wrong time. .