speed cameras m42 and birmingham

[dreadnought110]

:o went to solihull today how does anyone who lives round there cope with the m42 cameras ,my road angel woudn't stop bleeping!!! then when you get of you get loads of cameras on the other roads!!!

[mud-club-matty]

get used to it  :(

[dreadnought110]

did my head in thought leicester was getting bad..mind you is it as bad as the M25?

[gtomo2]

there are the same system as the m25 one over each lane on nearly every gantry. great fun in the rush hour. but not as busy as the ones on the m25 :shock:

[Dangermouse]

My satnav makes a noise like battle station on a battle ship or startrek.
driveing round the m25 the other day was like a reanactment of the battle of medway  i switched the dam thing off in the end.

[rangerider]

seems on mine the m25 cameras have been noted at their lowest limit so cruising thru at 70 on an empty road gives me constant overspeed warnings :(

[the loon]

on the subject of speed cameras did any one see todays mirror?
Piece about a  guy who got caught on a gatso and went back with thermite to torch the evidence then got caught again on the same camera while burning it ....
only thing was the hard drive was in fact in the base of the camera so it was under ground
 :lol:

that and britans highest earning speed camera - £206 an hour :!:  :!:  :!:
It was/is located in some road works on the M5 where speeds where lowered to 40

[Range Rover Blues]

Must be more careful in future then....

I think all cameras, like drivers, should be licenced.  There are places they really need to be (and often aren't) and places they are just in appropriate.  Like theones in Glossop, hidden in trees for crying out loud, 4 of us in the car, we knew it was therem still couldn't see it between us

[ian_s]

just dont break the speed limit........

[bezzabsa]

and dont forget the cameras on the M25 and the new ones on the M42 are linked to the signals - so as soon as speed is displayed - cameras automatically adjust so if your under the gantry when they drop the speed there is a good chance you'll be snapped!!
Bloomin liberty!!! and they say they are a safety feature and NOT to collect revenue - YEAH RIGHT!!

[graham2306]

just dont break the speed limit........

I totally agree.  However I drive a Subaru Impreza 25,000 miles a year for business and the only points I've picked up were on the A43 in Nhants when they had roadworks and a 40 mph limit.  At the time I was slip streaming an ASDA lorry in my Series III diesel and the 51 mph I was recorded at was the fastest it ever went, so I was momentarily distracted from my speed by the jubilation of the speedo passing 50 MPH!

I did think about getting Northamptonshire safety partnership to try and get the series III to do 51 mph, because without the ASDA lorry to slipstream they would never manage it.


Graham

[Bush Tucker Man]

just dont break the speed limit........

=D>  =D>  =D>

My sentiments exactly

SWMBO picked up a ticket in Leicester recently (somewhere between Fosse Park retail centre & the city-centre, I think)

One of her collegues thinks he triggered 4 in a row somewhere recently, so he's getting worried

[dreadnought110]

:D luckily i was trying to get 30mpg so was looking for a 12 tonne lorry to sit behind (there limiters are set at 60mph) but had to stick with 56mph it just got me that the road angel was constantly bleeping!!!!

[Range Rover Red]

We came back along the M42 from holiday with the caravan on, and every speed limit at a camera along the stretch in question was different, varying between 30, 40 and 50 mph in some places, so I had to keep speeding up and slowing down accordingly and the footwell was like an oven.  It did the job, though - the traffic flowed freely and there were no lane-hoppers bunging up the road!

This was a couple of days after a shop assistant in Weston super Mare told us that a young girl had been crossing the road alongside a speeding camera and a car driver had not seen her, his/her attention being distracted by the camera, and the girl was in Intensive Care.  I don't know whether she survived or not.

[fesuvious]

I live and work in Solihull.

The biggest problem I have with these stupid temporary limits is that my HGV drivers are now struggling to do some journeys.

Depending upon the lowered limits being lit up Worcester to Manchester for example will take 15 to 20 minutes longer.

Truro to Solihull is now a virtual no go to achieve in four and a half hours.

Even Shirley to Bromsgrove during the middle of the day is taking 10 minutes longer. This might not sound a lot but when its ( repeatedly ) the difference between being finished at 17:30 or 17:50 3 times a week its another hour on some members of staffs week.
The list goes on.....

These lowered limts have increased taffic density and slowed everyone down immensly. More importantly driving standards have been reduced and with everyone bunched up and braking for every gantry its bl00dy dangerous!