M62 cameras live ALL the time...or are they?
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Local newspaper (Examiner) article.
The new M62 "managed motorway" cameras are, apparently, live all the time. The article, when read closely, actually says the cameras are live all the time and "CAN" be used for enforcement even when the signs are blank. So, are they or aren't they ticketing? Who's to know whilst the authorities are being deliberately obtuse/misleading/dishonest/scummy*
Until there's a definitive answer, I'll be assuming the temptation will be too great for the scamerati. Articles like this will simply lead to the sheeple assuming the worst and dragging the maximum speed attainable at any time down to 60! Thus adding to traffic congestion. No doubt this will then be used to extend the operating times of the "managed motorway". It's a self fulfilling prophecy for the marxist "won't someone think of the children" brigade - I'm looking at you, Mary.
I await the stock "obey ze limit and you vill haf no problems" retorts. To which I'll say: there were far more accidents per week on this section of M62 with a fifty limit (avg speed cameras) than there were when the traffic was allowed to flow freely! In other words, a blanket enforcement of the rules, however stupid the rule, lead to more accidents and expensive motorway closures.
Paul
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Local newspaper (Examiner) article.
The new M62 "managed motorway" cameras are, apparently, live all the time. The article, when read closely, actually says the cameras are live all the time and "CAN" be used for enforcement even when the signs are blank. So, are they or aren't they ticketing? Who's to know whilst the authorities are being deliberately obtuse/misleading/dishonest/scummy*
Until there's a definitive answer, I'll be assuming the temptation will be too great for the scamerati. Articles like this will simply lead to the sheeple assuming the worst and dragging the maximum speed attainable at any time down to 60! Thus adding to traffic congestion. No doubt this will then be used to extend the operating times of the "managed motorway". It's a self fulfilling prophecy for the marxist "won't someone think of the children" brigade - I'm looking at you, Mary.
I await the stock "obey ze limit and you vill haf no problems" retorts. To which I'll say: there were far more accidents per week on this section of M62 with a fifty limit (avg speed cameras) than there were when the traffic was allowed to flow freely! In other words, a blanket enforcement of the rules, however stupid the rule, lead to more accidents and expensive motorway closures.
Paul
* delete as appropriate
speedyguy said:
http://www.trucknetuk.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=2&...
Just out of interest if the profiles are honest
would you believe a desert company director or someone working in a HA control room who probably reads the intranet updates ?
Is that a director whose company deals in hot sand or puddings? Just out of interest if the profiles are honest
would you believe a desert company director or someone working in a HA control room who probably reads the intranet updates ?
Presumably reports of cameras being permanently live are just scare tactics, and quite different from the data generating actual tickets?
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