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I drive Torbay, Exeter and Exmouth/Sidmouth most days and haven't seen a scamera van in AGES, until today.
They were sat just after a speed camera, so trying to catch people on the approach as they come over the brow of a hill. Of course this had nothing to do with revenue generation and was all about safety/education.
They were sat just after a speed camera, so trying to catch people on the approach as they come over the brow of a hill. Of course this had nothing to do with revenue generation and was all about safety/education.
VR6T Gar said:
I drive Torbay, Exeter and Exmouth/Sidmouth most days and haven't seen a scamera van in AGES, until today.
They were sat just after a speed camera, so trying to catch people on the approach as they come over the brow of a hill. Of course this had nothing to do with revenue generation and was all about safety/education.
Quite correct. Police and local authorities have lost money on camera partnerships for years, to the extent that several places got rid of them altogether. Oxfordshire famously switched theirs off for a while on 2010, Swindon had a cull of them, and West mids did something similar in 2009.They were sat just after a speed camera, so trying to catch people on the approach as they come over the brow of a hill. Of course this had nothing to do with revenue generation and was all about safety/education.
It's over a decade since the fines went to the people issueing them, and about 7 years since they could reclaim full operating costs from the Govt.
These days there is just a "Road Safety" budget, which covers everything from red light cameras to lollipop ladies.
Putting mobile units near fixed sites is becoming more common. A van in the same laybe as the fixed camera on Outland Rd in Plymouth last year here http://goo.gl/maps/JbLfu outside a large school got several people at over twice the posted limit between 7:30 and 9:30 in the morning.
This http://goo.gl/maps/8vuJt data recorder also regularly gets people at 50+. There's a fixed camera about 300m back up the hill so you'd assume they were at 30 then, and a bus stop, petrol station, and 2 sets of lights in the next 100m. The worst time for theis is between 3 and 4pm - school run mums!
The above, no excuse, you speed past a school, built up area, I have no problem if you get caught, bang to rights. I do, however have a problem with vans catching people doing 58mph on the A303. Yes me!! On my way to a job, saw the van, was not speeding and carried on. Next thing in the post came the notice for speeding in an area they feel my vehicle can only do 50mph (Vito dual liner) you can not get hold of anyone with a hint of common sense within the Constabulary, I've now got to try to reclassify the vehicle. The problem being that that piece of road (dropping down to the Ilminster round about) is dual lanes going up and single with overtaking coming down. It's a poor road design and I have no doubt some poor sod has come unstuck there due to this poor design. What do they do? They stick a camera van there rather than address the problem. I think about twenty or so people were killed on the Ilminster bypass before they decided to simply change the road design. It gets my goat this, put the cameras where they belong, in towns, villages, city's and schools, where they might actually reduce the risk of someone being killed!!!!! Rant only starting 
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