Speed Cameras

Originally Posted by BluePete

Where abouts G2D? Might go and take a look!

Pete

East Manchester. I was driving to daisynook garden centre!

camera's lazy cheap policing not impressive at all get some proper traffic copper's and maybe maintain the road system's better instead and they'd see much safer and efficient road's.

[Bluepete]

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

East Manchester. I was driving to daisynook garden centre!

Ah! A bit off my patch, but I used to work over that way. Lots of drug dealing at the garden centre car park after dark!

Originally Posted by hob

I always look for road lines instead of cameras, easier to spot.

I believe they don't actually need road lines (Truvelos only have one anyway) to be approved. Coz people have been measuring the lines and challenging the tax, they have been putting them up without lines. Computer says "give me £50" and no come-back!

[DarrenSV650S]

Does anyone fancy a midnight angle grinder party?

[Bluepete]

Truvelos have three lines. The car must be level with the lines in the pic to show the camera worked properly. The gatso needs the lines to corroborate (sp) the speed the radar gives by using the speed = distance/time equation.

[keith_d]

Strange you should mention it, I saw Mr Plod with a bit of electronics by the side of the road on Friday. I'm assuming it was a speed camera but it was tiny - about the size of a hand held video camera.

He'd also brought his friends along in the big fast estate car to pull over anyone who didn't stop. Fortunately, I was behind white van man who was doing exactly 30 (see, there is a first time for everything), and I couldn't be bothered to overtake.

Keith.

Originally Posted by zsv650

camera's lazy cheap policing not impressive at all get some proper traffic copper's and maybe maintain the road system's better instead and they'd see much safer and efficient road's.

Originally Posted by El Saxo

Erm, I seem to remember reading something a while ago about not having to paint them bright yellow any more. Sneaky but possibly perfectly legal. Gits.

Yup, the requirement to paint them yellow stopped at the same time as they stopped having to announce the location of mobile cameras in advance of deployment.

But then, you have nothing to fear, right?

Originally Posted by keith_d

Strange you should mention it, I saw Mr Plod with a bit of electronics by the side of the road on Friday. I'm assuming it was a speed camera but it was tiny - about the size of a hand held video camera.

He'd also brought his friends along in the big fast estate car to pull over anyone who didn't stop. Fortunately, I was behind white van man who was doing exactly 30 (see, there is a first time for everything), and I couldn't be bothered to overtake.

Keith.

If it was a huge estate van, and a tripod arrangement, it could of been crash investigators at work. We've had some near me recently. I too thought it was a tiny speed camera on a tripod until I got closer.

They were measuring at the run up to the site of a very bad accident.

[Bluepete]

Then again, it could have been a lad with a handheld Lti 20-20 ultralyte and his own Volvo patrol car. Don't read so much into something!

By me there are only two speed camera's. Instead Worcestershire and Warwickshire have lowered the speed limit. Evesham to Stratford upon Avon is a 50 all the way - now how am I supposed to test a Busa in these conditions???!!