M1 average speed cameras southbound junction 19

[V8Dom]

I'd like to warn everyone of the 50 limit on m1 junction 19. Traveling south

I came through sat morning. Sun very low missed the speed sign as didn't see it as so much glare and first camera is craftely placed hidden by a bridge so you don't see that either,

If anyone from the highway agency is reading this you are causing more danger to motorists by not giving a proper visible warning before the one and only one 50 mph speed limit sign.. It does not warn you before hand that there is a reduced speed limit approaching only a road works sign which doesn't always have a reduced speed..

Something needs to be said as it's so dangerous to suddenly slam on your brakes.. More warning signs please...

[V8Dom]

Now I'm worried I didn't slam but worried average didn't drop. Enough

I'd be surprised if first camera isn't connected as why go to the trouble of hiding it rather than make it a deterant..if located before the bridge?

[V8Dom]

Now I'm worried I didn't slam but worried average didn't drop. Enough

I'd be surprised if first camera isn't connected as why go to the trouble of hiding it rather than make it a deterant..if located before the bridge?

[V8Dom]

Seeing as I have in car camera I can confirm no cones before or after the 50 sign or first camera. The cones start at the second camera,,,50 sign not visible due to sun pointing at your face. Just a round shadow

[V8Dom]

Rick101 said:

The OP saw the sign but insists due to low sun could not read the number.

If that is the case he should have been thinking I was in an NSL, the limit has now changed and the only way it could have changed is lower, I should be checking for clues to the new limit.

Roadworks
Reduced width lanes
Speed of other traffic
Gantry repeaters etc etc


On another note, does anybody have a car which has the camera fitted for reading signs? How does it fare in low/blinding light? Would it have picked up the sign in this case?

but you are wrong
the road works hadnt started
there was no reduced width of lanes yet
there wasnt alot of traffic
there wasnt a gantry repeater as the first camera was behind a bridge

suggest you read the posts before making wild suggestions

[V8Dom]

littleredrooster said:

I have just driven South through these works in the last 15 minutes and can confirm that there is indeed limited signage.

There is an initial sign which warns that disruption will take place until 2016, then there is one pair of 50 signs, then within perhaps 60-70 metres, a bridge with the Specs cameras hiding just behind it. That's the extent of the advance warnings; I was convinced that there was loads of signs before the start of the works, but there is definitely not.

thankyou

its dangerous isnt it?

[V8Dom]

littleredrooster said:

I have just driven South through these works in the last 15 minutes and can confirm that there is indeed limited signage.

There is an initial sign which warns that disruption will take place until 2016, then there is one pair of 50 signs, then within perhaps 60-70 metres, a bridge with the Specs cameras hiding just behind it. That's the extent of the advance warnings; I was convinced that there was loads of signs before the start of the works, but there is definitely not.

thankyou

its dangerous isnt it?

i wasnt actually speeding above 70... its just i wasnt aware it was 50!!

[V8Dom]

mybrainhurts said:

Hackney said:

This.
There's plenty of warning that the roadworks are coming up. And roadworks on a motorway tend to mean a 50 limit, no matter what your camera detector says.

Should've been more observant, sorry.

So, how do you engage your power of observation in the OP's circumstances, when the low sun makes signs impossible to see?

my point exactly.. the signs are unreadable at low light, and with lack of signs or cones, with no clouds hard to know unless you use the road or seen the roadworks before