Vastern Road (again)
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A veritable swarm of those strips has popped up on the A412 in and around Garston/North Watford.
Actually, that's a point - they did a speed survey in our road a few years ago (bit of a rat run), and the average speed was 37mph (30 limit). The powers that be decided this didn't warrant speed bumps (good!). I wonder what the reaction will be if the A412 is found to have a 37mph average? Cameras, cameras and more fecking cameras I have no doubt. The A411 is already festooned with the bastard things. Grrr.
Actually, that's a point - they did a speed survey in our road a few years ago (bit of a rat run), and the average speed was 37mph (30 limit). The powers that be decided this didn't warrant speed bumps (good!). I wonder what the reaction will be if the A412 is found to have a 37mph average? Cameras, cameras and more fecking cameras I have no doubt. The A411 is already festooned with the bastard things. Grrr.
206xsi said:
Anyone know why they've now placed two of those rubber wires across with the old grey box tied to a post?
What is this measuring - speed or volume?
I've taken to bending the rubber tube in half, as if to halt the flow of water from a hose pipe, then securing with a tywrap.
HaHa, lets see you get some speed stats now!
P.S. ? For the BiB's - is this illegal, as I'm not actually damaging the device but stopping it from working.
marvelharvey said:
Two are for speed, just one for volume.
I always make a point of driving 10mph over these if I see them in time... I'm trying my best to bring down the average.
I always slow down when I see these as well. Admitedly not to 10mph but certainly to the limit. I wish everyone else would too!
I work on the assumption that there are working out traffic speeds to see what speeds people are doing, if they find people regularly exceeding the speed limit either a camera will appear or a BiB with a laser gun.
So if everyone slowed down over them our long term driving experience would be far better.
It is alledged that some people with non-ABS equipped cars operate a different principle. They go as fast as possible towards hem, slamming on the brakes at the last minute, hence locking the wheels, and hope the resultant skid will rip the rubber strips off the road!
But they already know everyone speeds on Vastern Road when it isn't jammed... They've had a Talivan there so much...
Waste of time and effort.
And to cap it all Reading council have announced they are to now only collect one wheelie bin per house per day.
So where exactly does my £1000+ pa council tax go?
Waste of time and effort.
And to cap it all Reading council have announced they are to now only collect one wheelie bin per house per day.
So where exactly does my £1000+ pa council tax go? 
marvelharvey said:
Two are for speed, just one for volume.
I always make a point of driving 10mph over these if I see them in time... I'm trying my best to bring down the average.
If these tubes are completly across the road and not just in one lane, you will find that two is for speed and volume. This enables the counters to "know" in which direction the traffic was flowing, depending on which tube is compressed first. They are usually used for council speed and volume checks.
If there are three tubes, then this is a DS2 or Truvelo speed trap.
, so hopefully the direction is already known!206xsi said:
Hornet - the A412 Ricky-Watford is already as badly populated with scameras as the A411!??
Noticed there's a newish one down by the Sky Ford garage heading towards the roundabout.
I'm on the north side of Watford, and the A412 is camera free thus far, although plod pop by for some laser/radar antics every now and again. Ricky and Croxley are a bloody camera nightmare though, especially the one going down Scotts Hill - used to work for Daewoo in Ricky, and that camera snared so many people. They featured the area on Top Gear a while back as having one of the highest camera densities in the country - the A411 from Hunton Bridge has at least 6, and the A412 from Watford into Ricky must have at least 8, decapitated or otherwise.
Lucky I get the train to work now....that's when the brakes aren't falling off. Bloody Silverlink. Missinglink more like.
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