Bah. You’ll never notice the difference when you’re doing 120mph.
Hope they start chopping them down like the ulez ones.
I expect Mark Drakeford has just put in a bulk order
Speed cameras are the only things on our roads that are maintained properly and now it seems the only thing on the roads that are invested in.
I wonder why…
I thoroughly welcome them, especially if mobile phone usage is picked up too..out-bloody-standing.
However, I do hope they are deployed in problem/risk areas, as opposed to speed limit change borders or low-risk revenue zones.
So they don’t need white lines (which most cameras already technically don’t), they don’t flash (which many already don’t) and they watch both sides of traffic (which many cameras also already do). I’m missing what’s so revolutionary? You just see them, slow down and then speed back up again in like 3 seconds if you want to…
They’ve installed these all around Wigan. Caught loads of people out going off of local Facebook pages.
Why don’t they just install tracking devices on everybody’s car and fine you accordingly when you go over the speed limit ?
Edit: I forgot the /s
Speeding js one of the few acceptable crimes in British society so I expect these to be destroyed swiftly.
We should only be installing average speed checks going forward, rather than fixed cameras, and they shouldn’t be painted yellow or have any signs telling you they’re there. Speed cameras are possibly the one truly watertight example of the phrase “If you’ve done nothing wrong then you’ve nothing to fear.”
Theres one of these in wakefield. They replaced the old gatso camera that was there. I don’t see them catching both ways as its on bend
Road safety is obviously good and including more measures to increase it is an objectively good idea.
As a genuine question for those in the comments, at what point do you just get diminishing safety returns for traffic enforcement cameras?
I think it would be a useful statistic to know proportionally what cameras are cash cows and what cameras are legitimately useful.
I would also like to know how many cameras have measured concertina effects and if that has caused accidents.
I’m not conspiratorial, I just wonder if we’ve reached a tipping point where the value of the speed camera has diminished.
I believe there’s one of these been up for a few weeks on Rochdale Road in Manchester.
England: oh ok.
France: so it’s fire and brimstone you want?
Here’s to hoping for a bladerunner style welcome for these things.
I notice the pole is very thin. That’s good.
I’d rather they invested the money in a better standard of driving test, higher standards for driving instructors and cracked right down on dodgy ways people cheat their way to a driving license.
A petrolhead who has driven for 15 years and speeds in the right situations in a properly maintained car is far less dangerous than a driver that is terrified of certain types of junction, doesn’t ever indicate correctly and likes to suddenly slam on the brakes for no explainable reason.
The only difference is that one of them makes councils money and the other doesn’t.
No one ever died by going too fast, it’s the sudden stopping that gets you.
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Bah. You’ll never notice the difference when you’re doing 120mph.
Hope they start chopping them down like the ulez ones.
I expect Mark Drakeford has just put in a bulk order
Speed cameras are the only things on our roads that are maintained properly and now it seems the only thing on the roads that are invested in.
I wonder why…
I thoroughly welcome them, especially if mobile phone usage is picked up too..out-bloody-standing.
However, I do hope they are deployed in problem/risk areas, as opposed to speed limit change borders or low-risk revenue zones.
So they don’t need white lines (which most cameras already technically don’t), they don’t flash (which many already don’t) and they watch both sides of traffic (which many cameras also already do). I’m missing what’s so revolutionary? You just see them, slow down and then speed back up again in like 3 seconds if you want to…
They’ve installed these all around Wigan. Caught loads of people out going off of local Facebook pages.
Why don’t they just install tracking devices on everybody’s car and fine you accordingly when you go over the speed limit ?
Edit: I forgot the /s
Speeding js one of the few acceptable crimes in British society so I expect these to be destroyed swiftly.
We should only be installing average speed checks going forward, rather than fixed cameras, and they shouldn’t be painted yellow or have any signs telling you they’re there. Speed cameras are possibly the one truly watertight example of the phrase “If you’ve done nothing wrong then you’ve nothing to fear.”
Theres one of these in wakefield. They replaced the old gatso camera that was there. I don’t see them catching both ways as its on bend
Road safety is obviously good and including more measures to increase it is an objectively good idea.
As a genuine question for those in the comments, at what point do you just get diminishing safety returns for traffic enforcement cameras?
I think it would be a useful statistic to know proportionally what cameras are cash cows and what cameras are legitimately useful.
I would also like to know how many cameras have measured concertina effects and if that has caused accidents.
I’m not conspiratorial, I just wonder if we’ve reached a tipping point where the value of the speed camera has diminished.
I believe there’s one of these been up for a few weeks on Rochdale Road in Manchester.
England: oh ok.
France: so it’s fire and brimstone you want?
Here’s to hoping for a bladerunner style welcome for these things.
I notice the pole is very thin. That’s good.
I’d rather they invested the money in a better standard of driving test, higher standards for driving instructors and cracked right down on dodgy ways people cheat their way to a driving license.
A petrolhead who has driven for 15 years and speeds in the right situations in a properly maintained car is far less dangerous than a driver that is terrified of certain types of junction, doesn’t ever indicate correctly and likes to suddenly slam on the brakes for no explainable reason.
The only difference is that one of them makes councils money and the other doesn’t.
No one ever died by going too fast, it’s the sudden stopping that gets you.