M42 SPECS?

[Mon Ami Mate]

There's an email doing the rounds in our offices announcing that SPECS is going live between Junctions 3 and 7b on the M42 on 1 April.

Anybody know if this is true or more tedious misinformed nonsense?

[combemarshal]

Probably a virus doing the rounds casue they know most people will open it!

[dickymint]

Maybe theres a clue in the date?

[SS2.]

dickymint said:

Maybe theres a clue in the date?

Likely its similar to the M4 SPECS hoax of a couple of years ago..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/be

[bluepolarbear]

Mon Ami Mate said:

There's an email doing the rounds in our offices announcing that SPECS is going live between Junctions 3 and 7b on the M42 on 1 April. Anybody know if this is true or more tedious misinformed nonsense?

J4 to J7 is the variable speed limit section, there are lots of camera's but they are not SPECS.

The section is one big experiment trying lots of traffic management techniques. One of them includes measuring the speed of every vehicle every 100m during that section, and tagging that vehicle againist its number plate every 500m with ANPR - however it is not there for speed enforcement - yet