Bit of fun, so is this legal?

[Autopilot]

Sk00p said:

Catch it wrong and the crossing at Bramley near Amazingstoke can be down for over 10 mins. Ones right next to a station seem to be the worst as you end up waiting all the time they are at the platform

I'll await Gavia's response to your post to tell you that you must be mistaken

[Red 4]

Sk00p said:

The closest they got on twitter to confirming it was to say the officer was stationary when it was taken as a few people asked in the end.

Merseyside RPU like the use of emojis to get the message across.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MerPolTraffic/status/95...

Saves people criticising.

Edited by Red 4 on Thursday 25th January 12:43

[Gavia]

Autopilot said:

Sk00p said:

Catch it wrong and the crossing at Bramley near Amazingstoke can be down for over 10 mins. Ones right next to a station seem to be the worst as you end up waiting all the time they are at the platform

I'll await Gavia's response to your post to tell you that you must be mistaken

I said

Gavia said:

He was right as well. You weren't pulled over, you were still on the road. Your argument seems to be that if you were in any sort of hold up on the road, you could simply switch your engine off and you’d be fine to use your phone. That isn’t correct.

I’m intrigued by this level crossing with a 10-15 minute wait. I’d be amazed if it was that long.

And I’m still amazed If it’s really that long. Trains don’t tend to stop at stations for 15 minutes either if it’s just a scheduled stop.

[bugmenot]

eltawater said:

It's a good high resolution bodycam if it is as it appears to have been recording at above HD resolution in a portait orientation.

The original file has had to be resized downwards by twitter to their standard 1536x2048 resolution...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUNe8hdW4AAsYAh.jpg:la...

Perhaps it's possible for the bodycam to take a still image which would have a higher resolution than video footage.

Though, I can't recall ever seeing any bodycam footage in portrait orientation.

[Autopilot]

Gavia said:

And I’m still amazed If it’s really that long. Trains don’t tend to stop at stations for 15 minutes either if it’s just a scheduled stop.

It's not how long the train is at the platform which is an issue, it's how long in advance they close the gates and how many trains you have in relative quick succession that keep them closed which is the problem.

On one side, the gates come down as the train pulls in to the platform. It waits for a minute then leaves via the gates/road end, so takes around 3 or 4 minutes in total.

On the other side where the train crosses the road first before pulling in to the station, the gates come down 3 or 4 minutes in advance and as soon as the train pulls in to the station, they open.

From time to time, you'll get stuck at the gates and have three or four trains to wait for. People often comment on whether the train has left the previous station yet. This isn't in jest, it's an actual question

[Autopilot]

Sk00p said:

largelunchbox said:

Am I missing something? I can’t see any one using a phone in the pic?

The photo taker

I assumed this to mean that Mr Lunchbox was expecting the picture to show the van driver caught using his phone where as all we got was a pic of him presumably being pulled over.

[Gavia]

Autopilot said:

It's not how long the train is at the platform which is an issue, it's how long in advance they close the gates and how many trains you have in relative quick succession that keep them closed which is the problem.

On one side, the gates come down as the train pulls in to the platform. It waits for a minute then leaves via the gates/road end, so takes around 3 or 4 minutes in total.

On the other side where the train crosses the road first before pulling in to the station, the gates come down 3 or 4 minutes in advance and as soon as the train pulls in to the station, they open.

From time to time, you'll get stuck at the gates and have three or four trains to wait for. People often comment on whether the train has left the previous station yet. This isn't in jest, it's an actual question

I’m not saying that perceived long waits don’t happen, just that it'll be quite rare and mainly avoided as keeping people held that long will encourage people to jump the barriers. Equally, it won’t happen every time the barriers come down at that crossing.

10 minutes I can just about believe, 15 minutes I don’t.

[Autopilot]

Gavia said:

I’m not saying that perceived long waits don’t happen, just that it'll be quite rare and mainly avoided as keeping people held that long will encourage people to jump the barriers. Equally, it won’t happen every time the barriers come down at that crossing.

10 minutes I can just about believe, 15 minutes I don’t.

There are two ruddy great big barriers that come down on either side completely blocking the road, you'd have a hard job jumping them!! At worst you could be tempted to floor it when the amber light came on but even then it's a large box junction, the entrance / exit to the car park is straight after it then in another 30 feet on there are traffic lights. if there was anything other than very light traffic you'd not get away with that either.

I avoid that route like the plague during rush hour. When it was a real problem, I've spent around 15 minutes there on a number of occasions. It's not the norm of course but not unusual either.

[techguyone]

eltawater said:

It's a good high resolution bodycam if it is as it appears to have been recording at above HD resolution in a portait orientation.

The original file has had to be resized downwards by twitter to their standard 1536x2048 resolution...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUNe8hdW4AAsYAh.jpg:la...

shame you can't see the EXIF data, it would have been easy to see if it was a phone