Topic: Uk Speed Traps

[TR]

A very very useful site >>Speedtraps<<


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[Clive]

Referred By: Just Surfed In
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Comments: There is an email circulating around my works, that reports that a series of speed traps are being installed on the m4 west of the brynglas tunnels jct 26 -bridgend jct 36, east and west bound, these cameras will measure the average speed between 2 fixed points, at intervals between 1 and 6 miles apart. It is not known if they can also measure the average speed across the whole area.  system is going live mid june.


This must be the story I heard a couple of months ago.  That's a stretch of motorway I use very frequently so I had better be on my guard.  

[Sandra]

I was going northbound on the M6 last Saturday and there was a stretch approching J36 that must have had 30 cameras on the top of long poles about 100 yards apart.
There were none southbound at that point.
They looked like the normal surveillance ones that are placed at busy sections of motorways not like speed cameras.
I hope that they werent speed ones as I probably got caught on all 30 of them if they were  
Does anyone know what they are  

[Clive]

We have those on the M4 between Pencoed and Llantrisant.  They aren't speed cameras, just surveilance.  Phew!  

[Sandra]

Why so many and why so close together Clive  

[Clive]

I don't know Sandra.  It seems completely over the top to me.  But it's a refurbished stretch of motorway so perahps that will be the norm in future.

[DJ]

The've got them along the M62 aswell - at the Liverpool end.

(Cue the jokes about scousers nicking cars   )

DJ1UK

[Adept]

I think the cameras on long poles are traffic cams.

This is the view from Clive's local one If you look behind the trees, you can just about make out Clive in his raincoat

The closest one to where I live is this one

[Simon]

Why is that car in your one driving down a railway line?  

[Clive]

Phew!  I ran all the way home.    What a wonderful site Adept.  Now I don't need to look out of the window to see if it's raining!  

[Clive]

Sandra, those cameras record number plates and send the information directly to the DVLA.  The computer then checks to see if the car is taxed.  

[Sandra]

Oh thats a relief then  
As long as the van I was driving was taxed,I must admit I never checked it  
I still cant understand why they need so many so close together though  
And why are they only checking the northbound cars? Is this another example of the North/South divide  

[Clive]

Well the guy I asked is a local Councilor who sits on the Roads Committee and he said that there is a reason for having so many over such a short distance.  But since he is nearly the same age as myself he has forgotten it.    He says that there is also a name for the system but he can't remember that either.    

[DJ]

Sounds like a really helpful guy  

DJ1UK

[Clive]

Aren't all local Councillors?    I think most of them fall asleep in the meetings anyway.