I,m moving to swindon

[maviczap]

After my encouter with a camera van yesterday, I don't think that they help either, because drivers slam on their brakes in the same way that they do for fixed cameras. So I agree with Swindon in that they don't improve safety.
There is a camera on the A14 eastbound, just before Cambridge, where I witnessed a crash, just before the camera. Someone must have paniced and the effect was a concertina effect, with one driver stepping on the brake pedal too hard. The car was right next to the camera in the outside lane.
Since they changed the cameras on the A14 going North of Cambridge from fixed to average speed, I've noticed that the traffic at least flows smoothly, not the slow fast, slow, fast of the old system.

Another example of cameras not working on the A14 is on the Haughly Bends, just before Stowmarket. Fixed camera didn't stop any more accidents happening, so they straightend the road and added a flyover to take the traffic off the road that previously had to cross the main road.

The purpose of the cameras was to slow the traffic down to 50mph, so that the cars needing to cross the carriageway had a reasonable chance of getting across.

[Paul the 6th]

i slow down for speed bumps. I speed back up a bit after camera's... unless there's a school nearby.

I can understand when they say that speed camera's save lives, but I've never seen any pedestrians crossing 50mph dual carriage ways where there's no footpath and a no pedestrians sign at either end.

[Mr Speirs]

i watched a report on this which stated that the real reason they are going to get rid of them is they had to maintain the cameras at cost of £320,000 a year whereas the central government took the revenue.
Swindon have quite rightly said 'Errrr na it's alright, we'll keep our £320,000 Thanks'
Unfortunately they now have put that £320,000 into their Icelandic bank account where it is steadily decreasing in value.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

i slow down for speed bumps.

Quite good round here, most of them are the ones with gaps either side so you don't have to slow down at all.

Well I'm in sunny Wiltshire, and on the way up through the county I went past five camera vans and one copper sat in a bush.

Are the Wilts Police trying to prove speeding is a major problem here???

[maviczap]

Nope, just trying to achive the targets set by the Chief Countstable

now everyone knows that the police dont have speeding targets! they just radomly decide to take officers of the street who doing nothing more than catching murders and theives and swamp a area that has had no accidents, where doing 90mph would be perfectly safe and particularly where nice people on two wheel genrally go past to meet their friends. did i forget to mention its normally behind a wall or tree to stop them getting sunburn

[maviczap]

Come to think of it, you might be right, I saw 2 officers one Sunday sitting in one of the remotest locations I have ever seen a mobile camera situated. They were tucked away behind some bushes trying to catch 2 wheeled folk enjoying a couple of sweet bends on a downhill section, followed by a nice uphill section.

Luckily a 4x4 driver flashed all the oncoming traffic, so I slowed. He must have been a two wheeled friend

[Jayneflakes]

I have lived in Swindon (albeit briefly) and I can tell you it will take more that this to make me want to go back there!


Ewwwwwwww!

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

I have lived in Swindon (albeit briefly) and I can tell you it will take more that this to make me want to go back there!

It is a bit of a dive isn't it....