M6 J18 - 19 North bound new yellow speed camera?
Discussion
It's this one.
It's about 500metres infront of an existing gantry which, according to Google, didn't have any cameras mounted on it back in July of last year but now has 2 cameras which are much smaller and barely visible compared to the existing HADEC 2 cameras.
This is the view from the opposite carriageway, you can just make out the cameras.
It's about 500metres infront of an existing gantry which, according to Google, didn't have any cameras mounted on it back in July of last year but now has 2 cameras which are much smaller and barely visible compared to the existing HADEC 2 cameras.
This is the view from the opposite carriageway, you can just make out the cameras.
ACCYSTAN said:
Yes, that s it
So there are cameras both on the gantry and again 500m further down on a yellow pole?
Begs the question, why so many camera for a rather uneventful piece of motorway?
Most cameras on 'Smart motorways' have a camera on the gantry, which is the one that actually does you for speeding, and another before the gantry which takes a photo to show the limit being displayed when you get done. (In case you try and argue that it was 'definitely showing NSL' when you get done in a 50)So there are cameras both on the gantry and again 500m further down on a yellow pole?
Begs the question, why so many camera for a rather uneventful piece of motorway?
Normally the latter are just grey and the actual speed cameras are very obvious yellow boxes on the side of the gantry- I wonder if they've decided to take a different approach with these and have painted the 'gantry cameras' yellow to make the presence of a speed camera clear to drivers, since the actual speed cameras are so stealthy.
Sofa said:
ACCYSTAN said:
Yes, that s it
So there are cameras both on the gantry and again 500m further down on a yellow pole?
Begs the question, why so many camera for a rather uneventful piece of motorway?
Most cameras on 'Smart motorways' have a camera on the gantry, which is the one that actually does you for speeding, and another before the gantry which takes a photo to show the limit being displayed when you get done. (In case you try and argue that it was 'definitely showing NSL' when you get done in a 50)So there are cameras both on the gantry and again 500m further down on a yellow pole?
Begs the question, why so many camera for a rather uneventful piece of motorway?
Normally the latter are just grey and the actual speed cameras are very obvious yellow boxes on the side of the gantry- I wonder if they've decided to take a different approach with these and have painted the 'gantry cameras' yellow to make the presence of a speed camera clear to drivers, since the actual speed cameras are so stealthy.
It stood out to me as I have never seen that set up before and I do a lot of driving all over the UK
ACCYSTAN said:
Yes, that s it
So there are cameras both on the gantry and again 500m further down on a yellow pole?
Begs the question, why so many camera for a rather uneventful piece of motorway?
it’s not, it’s a terrible section of motorway that a smart motorway system has not solved despite putting up for around 4 years of traffic chaos whilst they built itSo there are cameras both on the gantry and again 500m further down on a yellow pole?
Begs the question, why so many camera for a rather uneventful piece of motorway?
no idea what the camera is for or what it is supposed to solve/do – but some cameras were missing for a time on a number of gantries then, as pointed out, got replaced by very small ones – barely visible.
i thought there was another thread earlier in the year discussing it?
GSA_fattie said:
it s not, it s a terrible section of motorway that a smart motorway system has not solved despite putting up for around 4 years of traffic chaos whilst they built it
no idea what the camera is for or what it is supposed to solve/do but some cameras were missing for a time on a number of gantries then, as pointed out, got replaced by very small ones barely visible.
i thought there was another thread earlier in the year discussing it?
What difference does that make?
no idea what the camera is for or what it is supposed to solve/do but some cameras were missing for a time on a number of gantries then, as pointed out, got replaced by very small ones barely visible.
i thought there was another thread earlier in the year discussing it?
What difference does that make?
GSA_fattie said:
it s not, it s a terrible section of motorway that a smart motorway system has not solved despite putting up for around 4 years of traffic chaos whilst they built it
no idea what the camera is for or what it is supposed to solve/do but some cameras were missing for a time on a number of gantries then, as pointed out, got replaced by very small ones barely visible.
i thought there was another thread earlier in the year discussing it?
That's more like 12 years of travel chaos if you're talking about the whole route they've been working on since (J26 to J10). J21-J11 just happened to be my commuting route for the last 15 years, so changed my commute to evening trips only no idea what the camera is for or what it is supposed to solve/do but some cameras were missing for a time on a number of gantries then, as pointed out, got replaced by very small ones barely visible.
i thought there was another thread earlier in the year discussing it?
mmm-five said:
GSA_fattie said:
it s not, it s a terrible section of motorway that a smart motorway system has not solved despite putting up for around 4 years of traffic chaos whilst they built it
no idea what the camera is for or what it is supposed to solve/do but some cameras were missing for a time on a number of gantries then, as pointed out, got replaced by very small ones barely visible.
i thought there was another thread earlier in the year discussing it?
That's more like 12 years of travel chaos if you're talking about the whole route they've been working on since (J26 to J10). J21-J11 just happened to be my commuting route for the last 15 years, so changed my commute to evening trips only no idea what the camera is for or what it is supposed to solve/do but some cameras were missing for a time on a number of gantries then, as pointed out, got replaced by very small ones barely visible.
i thought there was another thread earlier in the year discussing it?
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