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[catherine]

has anyone else come across these?

although i think only two places in britain have them.... they are such a bitch.


theres a heap of them on the road between kilmarnok and ayr.
for anyone who doesnt get them, they work out your speed at the first one, then they know what time you should be at the next one so if you speed up to say 80 in between then they know because you pass the second camera too soon.

and there are like 5 pairs in the space of a few miles :-(

im glad my dad had told me about them or i wouldnt have been paying attention.

perhaps if there weren't so many people killing themselves by driving like fools, there would not be the need for such devices?

[catherine]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/scotland/4681507.stm

The Speed Enforcement Camera System (Specs) will track drivers over a 28-mile length of the A77 and calculate their average speed.

The stretch of road between Ayr and Girvan is an accident blackspot with 15 fatalities and 314 accidents between 1999 and 2004.

The £775,000 initiative consists of 40 banks of hi-tech cameras at points between Bogend Toll, north of Ayr, to Ardwell, south of Girvan and is the largest in the UK.




i dont get it though. the bit of road i drive on is just a straight forward dual carriageway. but im not too sure on the other bit it talks about going to girvan. but 40 cameras in 28 miles?? someone at uni was saying its like one of the most expensive streches of roads for tax payers now.



*edit* i would like to say im not complaining because i like to speed, but i am a confident driver and sometimes sit around 75 mph, but its annoying because you have to be very careful and drive below 70 the whole way just incase you accidently speed up on a hill or something. although im not too sure if these cameras will fine you if you go over 70, or if they are set to 85 like the others *shrugs*

[KeirBobs]

Although the cameras all face the same direction they monitor both oncoming and outgoing traffic. Good news for Motorcylces tho...They can do any speed they want as long as they drive head-on towards the cameras cos they only have number plates at the back!

[Noir]

i think we should have an autobahn

[catherine]

Originally Posted by KeirBobs

Although the cameras all face the same direction they monitor both oncoming and outgoing traffic. Good news for Motorcylces tho...They can do any speed they want as long as they drive head-on towards the cameras cos they only have number plates at the back!

hmm would the cameras covering the other side of the road not be able to see the licence plate if they looked through the records.

im not too sure how it all works.

[2 minutes of hate]

i got banned last year doing an average of 92 MPH between Aberdeen and Dundee, i passed one trapper and he didn't come after me so i just kept hammering along. Another trapper pulled me up coming into Dundee, he apparatly got a radio from the first one. They did a time distance speed thing on me and fucked me over.

I was going to say i stopped for a piss and a coke but i don't think they would of found it funny.

Im back on the road now though, bwahahaha!!

zoomzoomzoom

[KeirBobs]

Originally Posted by catherine

hmm would the cameras covering the other side of the road not be able to see the licence plate if they looked through the records.

im not too sure how it all works.

From what i've seen of them they hang above the road attached to a structure which spans the road and they all face the same direction no matter which way the traffic flows. Top Gear had a bit about them a while back and its them who mentioned the bit about motorcyclists.

There were two on King St a year or so ago, just outside the Bobbin attached to the top of lamp-posts.

[Noir]

a few weeks ago i got back from glasgow in 2 hours - in a 1 litre corsa with 5 people in.
needless to say, the car is fucked now.

[catherine]

Originally Posted by KeirBobs

From what i've seen of them they hang above the road attached to a structure which spans the road and they all face the same direction no matter which way the traffic flows. Top Gear had a bit about them a while back and its them who mentioned the bit about motorcyclists.

There were two on King St a year or so ago, just outside the Bobbin attached to the top of lamp-posts.

they hang on a post in the middle of the road, two on each side and the face the way that the traffic is going.

look at the photo on the bbc page i posted