M6 J18 - 19 North bound new yellow speed camera?

[ACCYSTAN]

I was heading up north yesterday and spotted a new yellow pole speed camera but with no speed camera warning sign on it.

Is this operational?

[martinbiz]

ACCYSTAN said:

I was heading up north yesterday and spotted a new yellow pole speed camera but with no speed camera warning sign on it.

Is this operational?

Since when do speed cameras need warning signs on them

[mmm-five]

Was it a standalone SPECS one or one behind/adjacent to the overhead signage (as they appear about every 10 miles).

[ACCYSTAN]

Hi stand alone

Looked like one of the average speed camera main yellow poles but it wasn’t pointed towards the front of it the car it got you from behind and the camera wasn’t on a cantilever

[jurbie]

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.

[ACCYSTAN]

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?

[Mr Tidy]

Over the years I've seen quite a few accidents on that stretch.

[Sofa]

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)

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.

[R0G]

Why does this matter?

[I am alright Jack]

R0G said:

Why does this matter?

Why does what matter?

[ACCYSTAN]

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)

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.

Interesting

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