Long range speeding cameras
Discussion
Right, advice please or opinions on what the point is of these ‘long range cameras’, which seem to be popping up all over like a bad rash. Yeah there’s a rant coming and I was clocked doing 48 in a 30 zone but by no means at all am I bad or unsafe on the roads, and this is what’s really irritating about it??
Bloody ‘long range camera’ was pointing a good half mile up the road waiting to catch people entering the lowered speed limit zone but it was my undetstanding that you had to be able to at least see the speed vehicles at a reasonable distance so you could have chance to alter your speed? I can’t see half a mile down the road and the the van was partly obscure by a parked car. I also don’t understand why you’d be catching traffic that far out of the village when surely the whole point is to catch speeders going through a village?
It’s straight for almost a mile and a half, along the bit where I was travelling and people do put their foot down. No hazards and you could assume the 30 zone didn’t start until further on if you’d not seen the signs by the roadside, so really it just gets everyone’s back up around there and I doubt it does anything for road safety.
Bloody ‘long range camera’ was pointing a good half mile up the road waiting to catch people entering the lowered speed limit zone but it was my undetstanding that you had to be able to at least see the speed vehicles at a reasonable distance so you could have chance to alter your speed? I can’t see half a mile down the road and the the van was partly obscure by a parked car. I also don’t understand why you’d be catching traffic that far out of the village when surely the whole point is to catch speeders going through a village?
It’s straight for almost a mile and a half, along the bit where I was travelling and people do put their foot down. No hazards and you could assume the 30 zone didn’t start until further on if you’d not seen the signs by the roadside, so really it just gets everyone’s back up around there and I doubt it does anything for road safety.
Some interesting replies. A mix of valid ones and a few from the wannabe middle’asses’ but it’s to be expected. Just so you know - tut tutting like an old woman won’t do you any favours, I’m not going to slow down, so find another arse to slap 
Yes, these cameras really need to go where the sun doesn’t shine and if I wanted to be viewed from afar then I’d get my bits out on the beach I’d cause more accidents. Yeah ‘don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time’, well I can so??
Yes, these cameras really need to go where the sun doesn’t shine and if I wanted to be viewed from afar then I’d get my bits out on the beach
I’d cause more accidents. Yeah ‘don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time’, well I can so?? Timbuktu said:
Lizzyweb said:
Yeah there’s a rant coming and I was clocked doing 48 in a 30 zone but by no means at all am I bad or unsafe on the roads, and this is what’s really irritating about it??
Lizzyweb said:
I’m not going to slow down, so find another arse to slap
Yeah ‘don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time’, well I can so??
I await your fourth thread on the subject.Yeah ‘don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time’, well I can so??
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