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Speed Cameras on M1

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Just thought I'd let people know, speed cameras have now been fitted to the overhead gantries on the M1 between junctions 27 & 31. They weren't there last week on my trip up. Signs say cameras not in use yet (I hope so anyway!) but its probably only a matter of time.

On a side note I thought this government declared an end to the war on motorists with no new speed cameras to be fitted.
 
Max Reheat said:
Just thought I'd let people know, speed cameras have now been fitted to the overhead gantries on the M1 between junctions 27 & 31. They weren't there last week on my trip up. Signs say cameras not in use yet (I hope so anyway!) but its probably only a matter of time.

On a side note I thought this government declared an end to the war on motorists with no new speed cameras to be fitted.
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thats me buggered every other week during the footie season then:PDT_Xtremez_32:
 
More annoying than speed cameras there'll be roadworks there soon.
 
busby1971 said:
More annoying than speed cameras there'll be roadworks there soon.
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Or even roadworks with speed cameras such as the 15 miles worth on the M1 north of J6 where, apart from the setting up of a contraflow and the erection of average speed cameras, no work appears to be going on.
 
They are just a tool to allow the Feds to offer you the opportunity of paying them for attending a speed awareness course.

£100 a head for anything up to 85mph. A license to print money.
 
Hmm being as I travel from J25 all the way to Doncaster every day for work - I ain't impressed.

Looks like I'll have to be a bit more alert in the morning!
 
MontyPlumbs said:
49.7 miles between home and my office. I know how far it is as I travel it every day. Was there a point to your post which states the obvious?
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So it wasn't a bad guess by someone who travels hundreds of miles everyday on our motorways. Your having a whinge about nothing. Try driving 200 miles................and doing a days work. Motorway cameras are part of everyday day life as are speed cameras on our roads. Unless of course you can't keep to the speed limits, in which case you don't deserve to be on the roads in the first place.
 
grumpyoldb said:
So it wasn't a bad guess by someone who travels hundreds of miles everyday on our motorways. Your having a whinge about nothing. Try driving 200 miles................and doing a days work. Motorway cameras are part of everyday day life as are speed cameras on our roads. Unless of course you can't keep to the speed limits, in which case you don't deserve to be on the roads in the first place.
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Oh right thanks for that.

You might actually have posted a good point for a change, but then you ruined it by willy waving about how much further you drive than I do.

I'll make sure I keep to the speed limits in future, just like you obviously do.
 
MontyPlumbs said:
Oh right thanks for that.

You might actually have posted a good point for a change, but then you ruined it by willy waving about how much further you drive than I do.

I'll make sure I keep to the speed limits in future, just like you obviously do.
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I dont need to willy wave as you so sarcastically put it. It doesn't become you. There again I don't bitch about the roads. We all have to do the mileage, but some of us can do it without a fuss.

If I really wanted to willy wave, I could tell you that I did 110,000 miles last year............................. but I won't. :PDT_Xtremez_31:
 
People whining about speed cameras really do make me laugh, don't speed and you won't get fined or points on your licence, or is that too bloody obvious for the terminally stupid among you?
 
If I want to travel at 80 mph on a deserted motorway in the dead of night I will. If I get caught its my tough luck and I'm bang to rights, thats the gamble. Even motoring organisations want the limit raising, some forces have stopped giving points up to 85 and the Germans can do pretty much as they want on the Autobahns. Most traffic coppers don't give a second look to cars going past them at 80. 70 mph speed cameras on a motorway are ridiculous
 
Max Reheat said:
If I want to travel at 80 mph on a deserted motorway in the dead of night I will. If I get caught its my tough luck and I'm bang to rights, thats the gamble. Even motoring organisations want the limit raising, some forces have stopped giving points up to 85 and the Germans can do pretty much as they want on the Autobahns. Most traffic coppers don't give a second look to cars going past them at 80. 70 mph speed cameras on a motorway are ridiculous
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Exactly right mate. Just because it's 'law' it doesn't mean we can't challenge it. Let's face it, high petrol prices and vehicle excise are legal, but we still have a good whinge about them!
 
Max Reheat said:
If I want to travel at 80 mph on a deserted motorway in the dead of night I will. If I get caught its my tough luck and I'm bang to rights, thats the gamble. Even motoring organisations want the limit raising, some forces have stopped giving points up to 85 and the Germans can do pretty much as they want on the Autobahns. Most traffic coppers don't give a second look to cars going past them at 80. 70 mph speed cameras on a motorway are ridiculous
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Yes, traffic have dissgression, but cameras don't. Oh, you might have noticed, this is the UK, not Germany. Some how I don't think that excuse would stand up in court.
 
Max Reheat said:
If I want to travel at 80 mph on a deserted motorway in the dead of night I will.
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I didn't think that this topic was about a deserted motorway at the dead of night. Most people commute in daytime when the motorway is certainly not deserted. Sorry. Am I trying to keep this on topic? :PDT_Xtremez_42:
 
Not expecting to get away with it Dave, just warning those who may have slipped into a comfort zone when they've seen the speed camera signs and gantries there for a year or so with no cameras fitted.
 
Max Reheat said:
Not expecting to get away with it Dave, just warning those who may have slipped into a comfort zone when they've seen the speed camera signs and gantries there for a year or so with no cameras fitted.
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My missus fell foul to that last year driving on the motorway around stockport.
She was sure the cameras had been removed even though the warning signs were there. Wrong. :PDT_Xtremez_42:
 
Dave-exfairy said:
Yes, traffic have dissgression, but cameras don't.
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Yes they do have discretion - they discern easily between the maximum speed of a car on one piece of road and do not apply that to the heavy vehicles on the same piece. How many heavy vehicles regularly break the speed limit? When was the last time one was caught by a camera? (When was the last time a speeding heavy vehicle was ever stopped - ever?)

Precisely. It is simply the path of least resistence to let them go as fast as they want, under 60, and keep all the traffic moving freely - just as the path of easiest revenue is to take the man out of the linkage and apply a machine to the job.

It's inarguably right (and especially in built up areas), but please don't pretend it is not without another agenda......no-one is that stupid.
 
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