The Myth of the M25 Speed Camera

[Snollygoster]

OldBob said:

stephen300o said:

Beer Man said:

hondafreek said:

Your 35th post was correcting grammar, congratulations.

Thanks.

American-English really gets on my tits. For example, people at a bar "Can I get......" No, you can't. Unless you go behind the bar and serve it. What's wrong with "Please may I have"? That's the correct way.

Your right.

Go for it Beer Man he's left himself open for one of the most common corrections, perhaps ironically though.

I'll correct on his behalf.

I think he means your write.

[Steviesam]

OldBob said:

Re 90, is this folklore or confirmed by anyone? My lad has been claiming it to be the case for some time time now and we stay under just in case, but it would be good to know anyone who can confirm they got done by one for over 90.

On the section from Heathrow to Gatwick, I have regulaly been 100+ and no ticket.

(Tin foil hat already on for the barage of do gooders bleating on about speeding)

[stephen300o]

Steviesam said:

OldBob said:

Re 90, is this folklore or confirmed by anyone? My lad has been claiming it to be the case for some time time now and we stay under just in case, but it would be good to know anyone who can confirm they got done by one for over 90.

On the section from Heathrow to Gatwick, I have regulaly been 100+ and no ticket.

(Tin foil hat already on for the barage of do gooders bleating on about speeding)

Misuse of the tin foil hat there..

[Z06George]

Using the M25 last Saturday there was a car in the outside lane braking down to 70 at every gantry, then going back to roughly 80 before braking for the next gantry. They did it every time that I could see until I overtook them. Mental!

[FastRich]

Snollygoster said:

OldBob said:

stephen300o said:

Beer Man said:

hondafreek said:

Your 35th post was correcting grammar, congratulations.

Thanks.

American-English really gets on my tits. For example, people at a bar "Can I get......" No, you can't. Unless you go behind the bar and serve it. What's wrong with "Please may I have"? That's the correct way.

Your right.

Go for it Beer Man he's left himself open for one of the most common corrections, perhaps ironically though.

I'll correct on his behalf.

I think he means your write.

thats' hilarious. bestest thing ever.

[Beer Man]

Snollygoster said:

I'll correct on his behalf.

I think he means your write.

Surely their must be some mistake. Noone would get your and you're wrong

[RobinBanks]

I'll agree with Beer Man on this point. I really dislike it when I hear people say things like "Why don't you send the report to myself and I will check it?"
You can send it to yourself and I can send it to myself but that's the only way it works.

[steveT350C]

I too have been flashed by the gantry camera anti clockwise near clacket lane, not doing much less than 90, about 3 months ago. nothing through the post.

For the 'average speed' cameras in the 50 mph limit roadworks I have set cruise control at 58mph and been ok.

[Blaster72]

Beer Man said:

Snollygoster said:

I'll correct on his behalf.

I think he means your write.

Surely their must be some mistake. Noone would get your and you're wrong

Anyway back to the topic in hand, I've used the M25 daily for years and have never heard of anyone being caught speeding by the gantry cameras.

Many of them have markings on the road and no camera anyway and I guess if they did start dishing out fines they'd manage to ban half the population of the South East from driving within a few weeks.

The managed sections are a joke with the seemingly random numbers generated and displayed on the gantries and the vast majority of users don't stick to the limits defined by those displays unless the actual traffic flow forces them to.

I've seen many times odd 40mph or 50mph signs displayed on completely deserted sections at night. Never been ticketed for passing by these above the posted limit.

I think a bigger improvement in traffic flow could be gained by educating people to keep left and actually use the extra capacity built in rather than pulling straight out from the slip road and settling into a coma in lane 2,3 or 4.

[EskimoArapaho]

Myth or not, I just assume these are all set to nasty mode and tootle along at an indicated limit+5mph.

hondafreek said:

Beer Man said:

"Including ME" not 'myself'

Your 35th post was correcting grammar, congratulations.

The irony is strong in this one!

[g3org3y]

Steviesam said:

OldBob said:

Re 90, is this folklore or confirmed by anyone? My lad has been claiming it to be the case for some time time now and we stay under just in case, but it would be good to know anyone who can confirm they got done by one for over 90.

On the section from Heathrow to Gatwick, I have regulaly been 100+ and no ticket.

(Tin foil hat already on for the barage of do gooders bleating on about speeding)

Why the tin foil hat?

Tin foil hat accompanies posts with perceived paranoia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil_hat

I think you were after your flame suit.

[thelawnet]

Official response:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploa...

tl;dr: some of the cameras are switched on, a minority are dummys, but we ain't gonna tell you which ones.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2538020/M2... Jan 2014: only from j2-3

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/consumer-new... - August 2014 - 'going to be' active, only when the speed limit is less than 70 j27-30

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/181486/resp... during the M25 roadworks j5-7 in 2013 the average speed cameras issued 3000 speeding tickets

[Ellieb10]

The north section Hadecs (J27-23) flashed over 80 for a few months after the four lane widening went in. I got flashed once at about 85, no ticket. They seem to have calmed down now and I've sat on 80 with cars overtaking easily doing 90 and they haven't flashed. I cant figure them out so don't really do over the limit in that section. I do enjoy a bit of M25 Hadec schadenfreude though.

[Dixo619]

seems like the M25 is a bit like disco nowadays (a free one that is)

[JF87]

I regularly do the Heathrow-Gatwick stretch with the cruise on at a GPS-indicated 87, and have never once been flashed. Also passed beneath umpteen variable-speed gantries at 15-20mph over without troubling the cameras.

[grayze]

I was caught when they first put them up in 1996 between the M4 and M40, 3 points for driving at 72 just as they had changed to 60 harsh but fair.

[Steviesam]

g3org3y said:

Steviesam said:

OldBob said:

Re 90, is this folklore or confirmed by anyone? My lad has been claiming it to be the case for some time time now and we stay under just in case, but it would be good to know anyone who can confirm they got done by one for over 90.

On the section from Heathrow to Gatwick, I have regulaly been 100+ and no ticket.

(Tin foil hat already on for the barage of do gooders bleating on about speeding)

Why the tin foil hat?

Tin foil hat accompanies posts with perceived paranoia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil_hat

I think you were after your flame suit.

Ahhh, thanks for making that clear.

I shall remember for next time!

[Tribal Chestnut]

When in variable mode, they don't seem to pick up bikes filtering in excess of the posted limit.

Perhaps the technology is foiled by having a car either side?

[PopsandBangs]

was just flashed not half an hour ago anticlockwise between 10 and 9... no reduced limits shown and no closed lanes, i was doing approx. 90 on a pretty empty stretch. First time ive ever seen any of these cameras flash, never been flashed anywhere else before in 8 years of driving, lit the whole road up like a battlefield. Guess its the 14 day waiting game now

[KrisP]

I had the same thing some 18 months ago near J10 M25, and it sounds like I had the same shock as you.

If it helps, nothing further happened, so maybe you might be as lucky