Help! Is This A Speed Camera

[newbie29]

Hi Guys is this a speed camera, there 4 on the M4 Bridge, 2 facing the outbound & other 2 inbound, all forward facing....i was exercising the car over the speed limit :0(

hoping its some kind of traffic counting system.

[tvrgit]

It's a traffic count.

[newbie29]

tvrgit said:

It's a traffic count.

:0) pheew! i hope so, i had the bolt cutters ready for a midnight strool...

[Mr Happy]

One car... ah ha ha!
Two cars... ah ha ha!

(couldn't resist, sorry!)

[sherbertdip]

Definitely a portable speed camera.

How fast were you going to warrant coming off the motorway and finding them to take a photo for PH?

[newbie29]

sherbertdip said:

Definitely a portable speed camera.

How fast were you going to warrant coming off the motorway and finding them to take a photo for PH?

85 in a 60

im getting mixed feedback most are saying speed cam, others traffic monitoring device.

[anonymous-user]

My vote would be it's not a speed camera.

[Digitalize]

I don't think it could measure speed to an accuracy to satisfy a speeding fine, as there's no regulated lines on the road.

Probably traffic counting or maybe surveying speed but not for prosecution.

Still, find out in 2 weeks I guess.

[Amused2death]

I'd go with traffic flow cameras. I've seen a couple near a roundabout near us, temporarily fixed to existing street furniture, complete with the box at the base chained up. Usually gone within a fortnight. Their position near the roundabout is totally unsuitable as revenue generation.

[richardrsc]

Probably best to kill it, just to be on the safe side.

[t400ble]

Jail awaits

[Who Me]

Hammer some frozen sausages into the grey box that will sort it out.....

[Hooli]

Last time I saw something like that, it was ANPR.

[Fartomatic5000]

They've started putting stickers on boxes like that around here saying "this is not a speed camera"

[Digitalize]

Fartomatic5000 said:

They've started putting stickers on boxes like that around here saying "this is not a speed camera"

That's what they want you to believe.

[ging84]

how fast were you going that you were so worried you felt the need to go back and examine the cameras on the bridge

[Iva Barchetta]

newbie29 said:

85 in a 60

This fast.

[Vaud]

Digitalize said:

I don't think it could measure speed to an accuracy to satisfy a speeding fine, as there's no regulated lines on the road.

Probably traffic counting or maybe surveying speed but not for prosecution.

Still, find out in 2 weeks I guess.

Lines are not needed, IIRC.

[AlexRS2782]

That's not a speed camera. It's one of those new spy cameras that tracks the tinfoil hat wibblists as they travel around the country

Edited by AlexRS2782 on Thursday 5th November 22:56