Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Speed Camara and then a Camara Van?

[andyb]

Originally posted by Monty

I read about that this morning in MCN-thought about it driving to Kings Lynn-shouldn't be too dificult to fix them. They will have to be wired to the side of the road-ergo the actual stud that has the lens in should be fairly easy to identify-dark night, pickaxe, voila-no camera.
Much easier that Gatso's to fix I reckon-not that any of us would do such a thing of course, this is purely a hypothosis you understand.....................

John

Dont forget about the cameras protecting the cameras...........

[matboyslim]

Originally posted by Monty

I read about that this morning in MCN-thought about it driving to Kings Lynn-shouldn't be too dificult to fix them. They will have to be wired to the side of the road-ergo the actual stud that has the lens in should be fairly easy to identify-dark night, pickaxe, voila-no camera.
Much easier that Gatso's to fix I reckon-not that any of us would do such a thing of course, this is purely a hypothosis you understand.....................

John

Ice racing rubber anyone?

So the feature i saw showed them in the eyes as said and take it they would be rigid ones like the solar powered ones they have on really bad bends and blackspot areas! If they were like the old style that depressed and cleaned em selves in doing so it could raise accuracy debate as such a unit may be hard to keep calibrated!

[andyb]

Could always just obey the speed limit?

[beancounter]

Do you always obey the speed limits Andy ?

[matboyslim]

Originally posted by andyb
Could always just obey the speed limit?

im not playing anymore! im taking my bike in and sulking till teatime!

[KeefyB]

Originally posted by andyb
You would not be done by two cameras in such close proximety. There is no "double" enforcement going on there, or anywhere like that.

Any member of their team will / can attend the camera sites in what ever vehicles available, thats seems the most logical explaination.

Hmm,tell that to the Lincs Constabulary........They had camera vans parked up either side of the Colsterworth roundabout on the A1 a couple of weeks ago.

[Monty]

Originally posted by andyb
Could always just obey the speed limit?

I do Andy I do. Always stick to the 30's, 40's and 50's just like I have been trained to do using 'Roadcraft' then ride/drive the road. But as you know the posted limit is often set for political reasons rather than good road safety ones and is often way under a sensible speed for a particular piece of road-and sometimes way over it is has to be said...............but cameras only police the posted limit and will usually be sited where the posted limit is well below the roads 'natural' limit-IMHO.

John

[Jools]

Hmmmmmm.....Not double jeopardy perhaps, but Bedfordshire's finest mobile does creep about close to fixed camera sites quite often.

A421 at Great Barford for one. Fixed cameras at each end of the village, but they're both about 100 yards before the national speed limit signs as you head out of the 30 zone. Mobile camera often sits in a layby and picks off those people who get on the gas after the Gatso but before the end of the 30 zone.

Irritates the hell out of me 'cos by the time you've cleared the last Gatso, you've also cleared all the housing .

[Jools]

Originally posted by Monty

I do Andy I do. Always stick to the 30's, 40's and 50's just like I have been trained to do using 'Roadcraft' then ride/drive the road. But as you know the posted limit is often set for political reasons rather than good road safety ones and is often way under a sensible speed for a particular piece of road-and sometimes way over it is has to be said...............but cameras only police the posted limit and will usually be sited where the posted limit is well below the roads 'natural' limit-IMHO.

John

If they only police the 'way over' the natural speed limit spots doesn't that go against the fixed camera guidelines? Why is it different for mobiles?

Something about a road having a speed that feels natural and safe to most people to drive at a certain speed so it has a natural average speed. Like everything else if you plot peoples speed against this average on a graph you'll range from a few dodderers at the low end and a few nutters at the high end, with most people somewhere between the extremes. You get a curve that looks like a bell anyway. Apparently the fewest accidents happen to people who drive at 20% above the normal distribution of this curve.

[Guido]

In all fairness to the police, you have to say that that is the worst piece of road building I have seen in a long time. What an abortion of a junction that is. What the f*** were the highways thinking when they dreamt up that one!!!!!

If there was ever a call for a roundabout that is it...........

My guess is that the road junction is so bad there that there's a fair few 'incidents' hence the justification for the police to monitor speed in the hope it reduces t-Bones.........

Accident waiting to happen if you ask me.