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panrider_uk
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PostPosted: 06:54 - 03 Oct 2009    Post subject: Wales planning to introduce Mobile Average Speed Cameras Reply with quote
https://www.pocketgpsworld.com/Wales-Plans-Mobile-Average-Speed-Cameras-8538.php

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According to the "Intelligence for the Public Services Community" website Kable, the Welsh government is planning the introduction of mobile average speed cameras. Mobile cameras were chosen as they offer flexibility as to where they are placed.

The cameras will use automatic numberplate recognition (ANPR) technology to record the time taken to travel between two fixed points.

A report submitted to the National Assembly for Wales Enterprise and Learning Committee says, "Evidence has shown that average speed cameras are more effective in achieving driver compliance. We recommend further investment in, and greater use of, mobile camera technology on the trunk road network in Wales."

It also says it would like to see an increase in human interaction between police and drivers in addition to the use of cameras.



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PostPosted: 17:30 - 03 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh joy. Confused
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PostPosted: 17:52 - 03 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
We have them here in N.Ireland, and I don't know of anyone who has been caught, or even bothers with them.

They are forward facing as well, so I wouldn't worry too much about them.
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PostPosted: 21:21 - 03 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
The average speed coming out of Wales will always be greater than that of going in.
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PostPosted: 00:05 - 05 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's OK, I can't ride down the street without stopping for a ciggie.
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PostPosted: 10:30 - 09 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Clarkson reakons that if you change lanes between speed camera locations then they can't catch you!! Don't know how accurate this is but it was on Top Gear a year or so ago.
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PostPosted: 11:46 - 09 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
hehe@ Skudd.

I love Wales though, more space than a spacious place.
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PostPosted: 09:52 - 11 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Skudd wrote:
The average speed coming out of Wales will always be greater than that of going in.


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PostPosted: 12:02 - 20 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
yeah same here in cornwall

we have one long straight nearby (i say long its only about 2 miles) and they go and put average speed camera shit either end.

Forward facing though Wink

It seems to me like they are never turned on though... Question
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PostPosted: 20:21 - 20 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
We have 'em on the A127 in Essex, forward facing though 50mph limit, annoyingly a lot of driver think the 50 mph limt applies all the way down the A127. Sad
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PostPosted: 21:13 - 16 Nov 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
One thing to remember is that the police in wales have NEVER been biker friendly,

You and your mates are not welcome, nor am I and certainly not my mates or any one else if they are on two wheels
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PostPosted: 21:58 - 16 Nov 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
dafyddjohndavies wrote:
Clarkson reakons that if you change lanes between speed camera locations then they can't catch you!! Don't know how accurate this is but it was on Top Gear a year or so ago.

And on the internet a long time before that.
Doesn't help much if their mobile system is on a single carrigeway road

Incidentally, the issue wasn't that they couldn't catch you, but that they weren't certified to do so Smile.
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