Not sure if this has been mentioned, but Trevor Macdonald last night was about revenue raising cameras. You can mail twtm@granadamedia.com detailing any sites that are suspected of being revenue raisers, and they will investigate. I've listed pretty much every camera in Colchester in my email!

 

That's all well and good as long as they do not meet the "criteria". If they do you will just be wasting time and effort.

 

I watched the prgramme and was disappointed that they did not highlight the scamera that was wrongly sited in (or rather outside) the roadworks for over a year, I thought they missed an ideal opportunity to rubish the Brunstrom clown with that one, opportunity missed?

ABDM4Fiasco


Edit to try and fix link - twice!

[Edited by jaf01uk - 1/27/2004 2:09:21 PM]

[Edited by jaf01uk - 1/27/2004 2:12:00 PM]

 

It was an opportunity missed Jaf, but not an opportunity to rub Brunstrom's nose in it, as he is Chief Constable of North Wales, and the camera you are talking about was on the M4 - at the opposite end of the Principality, and in South Wales Police's area...

 

Remember the one in reading? It was a van parked in a bush in a 30 limit road that was not clearly marked. It was a very open road and people would assume a 40MPH limit.

The scamera caught someone every 90 seconds on average.

£25,000 a week!!!! Hmmmm and you may ask.....where does it all go?


The conservative party claim that if they come into power they would cut back the amount of unnecessary cameras and only have them in accident blackspots. Weather you believe a poitician or not is questionable.


Luke

 

Does anyone know about the SPECS system on the M6?

If you dont you might want to read some info i have

 

Ah! he says as he highlights his geographical ineptitude, I didn't know that, cheers,
Gary

 

S'alright. While you don't get a chance to give Tricky Dicky a kicking, you can rest safe in the knowledge that the M4 camera was operated by the same "partnership" that was responsible for the "speeding rally driver" fiasco...

 

You mean the rally driving boy racers

 

Can anyone remember the article in a newspaper some weeks ago. There was a camera van 'dressed' up like a builders van, there were ladders outside of it etc, with a speed camera poking out of the rear window!!
Its not on!!

simb

 

On sunday morning on the A5 near Tamworth i spotted an unmarked jag that had pulled someone over. Less than a mile down the road, a marked police car passed me traveling in the opposite direction. Then i saw the white camera van parked in a lay by. A couple of hundred meters down the road was another marked car waiting in a side road.
All this to catch a few dangerous criminal motorists[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
This is on top of all the speed cameras they have on this road.
I also noticed strange lack of speed limit signs on some of the stretches of this road where there are cameras.
You cant even assume that a country A class road has a national speed limit any more
They have a habit of dropping the speed limit down to 50 or 40


Thats better.
I needed a good moan


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Paul W, Glad you have highlighted all the cameras in Colchester you have saved me a job, the place is over run with them.

 

I travel on a major A road from Loughborough to Nottingham every work day and the highest speed from Hoton until the dual carriage way at Ruddington is 50. There used to be a few 60mph stretches and they have all been removed. There is a straight a couple of miles long which has a cross road on it, so fair enough drop the speed for the cross road, but reducing it about 3.5 miles before it is just overkill.

 

Did anyone ever see that article in the Sun paper?? They took the 5 most dangerous roads i think, and counted the number of Cameras on them... If i remember rightly, there were 4! on nearly 200 miles of road! One of the listed roads was the A65 Kirby Lonsdale road i think, and theres none on there!

 

He He,

 

I hope someone the A50 from Stoke to Stone, that road is a fecking joke with all the cameras on there, not to mention the speed limit that changes every 4cm.