Grey Speed Cameras

[gorillaonabik...]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/stealth-speed-cameras-on-motorways-to-be-rolled-out-after-catching-700-drivers-in-two-months-9979101.html

I know there's been a bit of chat about this but didn't realise they were operational and caught nearly 700 drivers / riders on the M25. Any plans for these near you?

Know anyone who's been caught by one of these?

If they install these everywhere, I'll end up in jail...
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[Ste]

There's lots more to come.

[0l0dom0l0]

I've seen people that have been flashed by them. Pretty easy to spot if you know where you are looking.

I think anything below 80 and you'll be fine. I've seen people fly through while I'm doing 70 and not get flashed.

On the m25 by Kent they are just after the signs 30.3 and 38.3 I think from memory.
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[arry]

It's the smart camera bit that worries me - ie they can vary its sensitivity down with the variable speed limit in operation at the time.

Problem with that is, those gantries are almost always incorrect to the point of being ridiculous - go 5 miles at 40mph with everyone else wizzing around at 80 because there's not a stitch of traffic on the road and not an accident in bloody sight. Then comes the NSL gantry again and you realise it was just because they've forgotten to switch the bloody gantry off after an incident in rush hour the morning before or something ridiculous.


Anyway, another point - how many people use the M25 J5-6 a day? Got to be tens of hundreds of thousands. And they're making out as if they're worthwhile because 500 people got caught in 2 months? Say whuuuu....

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Been covered before on these 'new' smart (i.e. managed) motorways.

The recent modifications to the M62 near Leeds/Bradford restriction signs off (so NSL) yet cameras still active.

As in from last year, Highways chiefs reveal M62 cameras ARE working when signs are off....

Although I believe no-one has been fined (although feel free to prove that wrong).
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[bikertomm]

It's as though they want us to take our numberplates off.


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[DrDonnyBrago]

How long after the speed limit changes do the cameras go active at the new limit?

[arry]

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[dodgydog]

[DrDonnyBrago]

I ask because my wife claims to have seen people being flashed within seconds of the M4 signs changing from NSL to 40.

I hate the way this country is going.

[Llama-Farmer]

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Still, if we're to keep the Fat Cats and non tax paying corporations as wealthy as possible, we all must play our part I guess
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[DrDonnyBrago]

[ws4936]

Don't know about the M25, but if they're anything like the ones we have in Bristol on the M5 and M4 then they're concealed by the gantry itself. They've also been here a while, and are only active when they impose the variable speed limit.
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[Furrybiker]

The article seems to be wrong at least in parts, the cameras I have seen have never been yellow on motorways. The ones that are being put on to the managed motorways are the new HADECS3
https://www.bannix.co.uk/images/friendly/cam01.jpg
To my mind they are easier to spot than the old ones in the gantry above each lane.

[GTR1400]

700 in 2 months? So around a dozen per day? Considering how many vehicles travel around the M25, that's a surprisingly low amount. Surely they can't be THAT well hidden if they're only catching one person out of thousands. Obviously certain times of day will catch more people, but even at those figures, it's unlikely that they're getting more than one every 20 minutes or so even at the most emphasised times for speeding.

[Dave70]

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