SPECS NOW ON M27

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S4E Jord

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1,589 posts

208 months

Wednesday 9th January 2008
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Went up this morning between Junctions 11 and 12 both ways!!!!!!!!

no cameras yet but they will be in a few days i guess!

Stampede

266 posts

219 months

Thursday 10th January 2008
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S4E Jord said:
Went up this morning between Junctions 11 and 12 both ways!!!!!!!!

no cameras yet but they will be in a few days i guess!
Saw them too.

Welcome to another few months of the missery of roadworks. mad

T5SOR

1,995 posts

226 months

Friday 11th January 2008
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Fareham? yikes

Dogwatch

6,231 posts

223 months

Friday 11th January 2008
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T5SOR said:
Fareham? yikes
Nah, Shoot 'em shoot

S4E Jord

Original Poster:

1,589 posts

208 months

Friday 11th January 2008
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The cameras went on the polls last night and they dont have hood so i would say they are working as we type.....

bastids!

HarryW

15,151 posts

270 months

Friday 11th January 2008
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yes saw those going up frown bastids. Add those to the ones they've recently put on the A27 near Havant and you have two sets within a mile. I wonder what would happen if you got caught by both with a minute, which is possible/probable shirley not two sets of points fines confusedmad

T5SOR

1,995 posts

226 months

Friday 11th January 2008
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HarryW said:
yes saw those going up frown bastids. Add those to the ones they've recently put on the A27 near Havant and you have two sets within a mile. I wonder what would happen if you got caught by both with a minute, which is possible/probable shirley not two sets of points fines confusedmad
If you speed past both and dont drop below 70 then shirley you have only been speeding once.

Aslong as they dont put a camera on the whitley slip road winkhehe

Le Mans Visitor

1,119 posts

203 months

Friday 11th January 2008
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Saw them today, the swines.

laser avant s2

866 posts

209 months

Friday 11th January 2008
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Slow trip from Chichester to Southampton tonight for me then... slightly more spirited driving now called for to make up for it from Southampton to Bournemouth lol

oatz

28 posts

224 months

Sunday 13th January 2008
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I'm pretty sure these were up before Christmas? Does anyone know if they are in operation yet?

ilovevolvo

1,832 posts

225 months

Sunday 13th January 2008
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Yes frown

Russ

oatz

28 posts

224 months

Sunday 13th January 2008
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Damn think i may have just been done last night then.... the only thing is a few friends of mine have driven past recently completely ignoring them.... the last to do this was last Sunday. Also are they on all 3 lanes and I presume they also work at night then? (a desperate attempt i know)

oatz

28 posts

224 months

Sunday 13th January 2008
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Out of interest are all sets of SPECS linked together nationally? Or do they only operate in pairs so to speak?

Thanks

steve.B

457 posts

208 months

Sunday 13th January 2008
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These average speed cameras, anyone know how they work?
I'd like to know if changing lanes between means that you can not be speed read.

oatz

28 posts

224 months

Tuesday 15th January 2008
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FYI Just driven past these again and there is a sign in front of each new SPEC stating the cameras are currently not in use

Steve_D

13,749 posts

259 months

Tuesday 15th January 2008
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Any camera on any pole will read your number plate, time stamp it, camera code it and pop it in the database.
When the system sees that number again it just compares the time stamps and the legal, elapsed, time taken to travel between each camera.

So it does not matter which lane.
You could pass the first camera at 150mph as long as you then slowed to a crawl such that you time between the points matched the speed limit. I don't think this technique is to be recommended.

Steve

PS I can't see any reason why SPECS would be linked nationally unless they wanted to find or track the whereabouts of a vehicle. If this were the case I'm sure there would have been a monster outcry about 'Big Brother'.

JSS 911

1,815 posts

212 months

Wednesday 16th January 2008
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According to the radio today they go live on Saturday, A27 Portsmouth - Fareham

normalbloke

7,463 posts

220 months

Wednesday 16th January 2008
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It's for the roadworks you over-reacting planks!

When they start the works in earnest and drop the limit, that's when the SPECS will become live.

If you choose to speed through the cones, then you deserve all you get.

HarryW

15,151 posts

270 months

Wednesday 16th January 2008
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normalbloke said:
It's for the roadworks you over-reacting planks!

When they start the works in earnest and drop the limit, that's when the SPECS will become live.

If you choose to speed through the cones, then you deserve all you get.
..and of course they will cease when the road works finish, not normal to fit permanent poles for road works with specs on top, or is it confused

normalbloke

7,463 posts

220 months

Wednesday 16th January 2008
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Those are the standard poles used for SPECS on any roadworks.They will be removed when they finish the works.