Bloody things are popping up everywhere!

[TheBikerStig]

Rode into Swansea earlier and to my absolute disgust, came across those yellow average speed check things. Dont know if they are active yet, I guess I will find out soon enough.
Whats pissin me off is they are spreading across the country like cancer. How long will it be before every road has them? If theres one thing I hate more than anything else its driving slow. Irritates me no end. Rant over.
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[Rogerborg]

...at the speed of the most timid driver, with everyone's eyes glued to their speedometers.

Front or rear facing?
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

When they want to reduce speed on racetracks they fit chicanes.

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[clancy]

Every average speed set up I have ever seen is set up to see the rear of the vehicle so yes it would get bikes

That being said the ones round here seem very lenient, normal cameras have about 10% tolerance I think ? These seem to have more IMO. Been through far faster and not received and presents in the post yet
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[Itchy]

Driving around Manchester I have noticed three sets of cameras (on each side of the road) on almost every road in and out of Manchester with one outer ring of them at the M60 and another one.

7 years ago we said NO in a referendum. Guess they aren't listening and pushing it as they know best.
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[Rogerborg]

All SPECS cameras are axiomatically ANPR.

AFAIK, there is no statutory or regulatory protection against the information being stored indefinitely or used for whatever future purposes the State fancies coming up with. Road charging, for example.
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[pepperami]

And still no one has mentioned setting them on fire allegedly
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[Clutchy]

North circ ones are front facing, can blast through them


Same with the ones of the trips down to south end, they do however have a couple of GATSO's strategically placed
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[Rogerborg]

Glasgow will be there soon. They're pushing the free parking zones further out, the "McBoris Bikes" are in, and the Commonwealth Zil Lanes are going into action soon with "safety CCTV" (really) covering them. To nobody's great surprise, it's just been revealed that they will be retained as yet more new bus lanes afterwards.

Essentially, the projected income from the Games is being used to prep the city for lockdown.
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[talkToTheHat]

Because speed reduce KSIs

https://www.abd.org.uk/pr/806.htm

Or not.
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[thx1138]

they have front and rear facing average speed cameras here in Bedford

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[Dave70]

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[Llama-Farmer]

Seen many more forward facing ones than rear.


Although on the mway I've seen a lot which light the area where the cameras are, using a floodlight on the side of the motorway, presumably to light up the numberplate.

Yet they have night vision cameras so don't require floodlighting to work in the dark. So not sure why the lights. Not all the SPECS have the floodlights to the side anyway.


They do seem to crop up everywhere now though, some on a temporary basis, a lot on a permanent basis on new 50-limit roads that were formerly NSL.

These roads now seem to have average speeds of 30-40 on them, but in the past always seemed to get a healthy 50-60 when they were NSL. No difference in traffic, just the cameras scaring people at the front of the queue holding everyone up I think.
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[Moo.]

They have a set of front facing average speed cameras on the A14 near Kettering at the moment, they have those spotlights next to them too. I'm certain they're only up to get additional funding for the road widening scheme that's going on... As its all been reduced down to a 40mph from a 70mph..
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[grr666]

The thing that makes me laugh the most is the bell ends
you see that brake for the average speed cameras as they
pass them and speed up between them. It really is a shocking
indictment of our education system that there are actually people
out there who don't understand the meaning of the word average.

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