Surrey Police - camera site. EH???
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Hi Streaky, I agree the joining junction is not great, but no worse than any other slip road in the country.
The nasty one is next junction down, which is a slip joining from the left. It goes up the side of the hogs back which is a steep hill and then has a 50m slip.
This means trucks joining are normally going about 20 mph and have to bully thier way out, giving a speed difference of 60mph if you are travelling at 80 which takes about 120 feet to slow down to. So must people just swerve into the right lane to dodge the truck and nearly take out the person in the right lane + the bad surface cathes a few people out every year and they end up in the trees.
All it needs is decent slip of 150 yards built, like the one further on at the infamous Hogs Back Cafe.
Ironically there is nowhere to park so the "safety camera" will be nowhere near it.
The nasty one is next junction down, which is a slip joining from the left. It goes up the side of the hogs back which is a steep hill and then has a 50m slip.
This means trucks joining are normally going about 20 mph and have to bully thier way out, giving a speed difference of 60mph if you are travelling at 80 which takes about 120 feet to slow down to. So must people just swerve into the right lane to dodge the truck and nearly take out the person in the right lane + the bad surface cathes a few people out every year and they end up in the trees.
All it needs is decent slip of 150 yards built, like the one further on at the infamous Hogs Back Cafe.
Ironically there is nowhere to park so the "safety camera" will be nowhere near it.
triple7 said:
Only mobile camera I have ever seen in a year living in G'ford was as the A31 came into town after teh A3 split.
The police got my respect because he was stood in the open in a flourescent jacket, giving motorists a chance to see him before the speed trap.
Thats what enforcement is all about, not stealth tacticts.
G
Possibly - except that the measurement distance is, typically, far greater than the distance at which most people are likely to be able to identify that they are approaching a mobile camera operator or its vehicle.
On the other hands Surrey were, for many years, not very pro speed cameras as a method of driver education. It's a pity that apparently changed a couple of years ago.
triple7 said:
Only mobile camera I have ever seen in a year living in G'ford was as the A31 came into town after teh A3 split.
The police got my respect because he was stood in the open in a flourescent jacket, giving motorists a chance to see him before the speed trap.
Thats what enforcement is all about, not stealth tacticts.
G
...but does his standing there with a revenue device in hand make for safer drivers?
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