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Originally Posted by getyerkneedown
Yup.
Its the same on the M62 from Leeds towards Manchester.
The overhead gantries which give warnings such as "tiredness kills - take a break" etc, have SPECS cameras in them. You go under one, it takes your plate. You go under the next, it reads your plate again - works out the distance and time - gives your speed - if over the average speed limit - you get done.
Take care folks.
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no you dont. well not always
i work as an engineer for the agency that manages motorway and trunk roads in west yorkshire, all otyher areas of the country work to roughly the same guidlines, someareas trial ideqas before they get rolled out to the uk network. specs cameras as far as i know will never display your speed then prosecute, they just prosecute.
most of the cameras on bridges and gantrys are either for us to check traffic flow for incident management or trafficmaster or other such subscription services.
we do use specs a specs type system to monitor traffic speeds in road works sites, but this is more to raise public awareness of their speed and the danger that excessive speed can present to workers within that site.
in reality the police are pretty much anable to monitor traffic within traffic management because of the restrictions and lack of obs platforms, specs makes it easier to monitor, we sometimes use gatsos, but this is often difficult as traffic management is usually fluid and alters to suit requirements as works are completed and new area opened up.
there is currently a big push regarding speeding in traffic management , the company i work for IIRC, lost 4 or 5 men last year in accidents where drivers failed to negotiate traffic management, all tragically lost because many drivers dont think that speed limits in TM means them................