(slightly off topic) SPECS Speed Cameras on the M4 - between Junction 12 & 15

If you're headed this way...




Regards,

Simonm.

 

Thank you, I will be down there tonight for Showman's Show in Newbury. will
look out for them !

Dave

 

But if you don't speed....

(Runs and hides.....)

 

... buy a Land Rover?

Best thing for top posters to do.

 

Me again.

I've been informed by the uk.local.bristol group that this is a hoax.
Could be so, and there is indeed a denial on the Thames Valley Police's
web site.

Having passed the new signs several times recently however, I'm still
unconvinced. There are far too many of them and far too close together
to make sense just as a trial. If they're intending to do that all over
the country it'll be hideous, never mind the enormous cost. Each sign
has a pair of cameras - facing in both directions along the motorway,
and sensors buried in the road to detect traffic quantity and speed. It
may well be the case they can use them fro SPECS, even if they aren't at
present.

There was an incident recently in South Wales where the "Safety" Camera
Partnership put up cameras and sent out penalty notices to people
accelerating *after* a speed restriction, i.e. doing <70. The Camera
Partnership have announced they will not 'proactively' refund fines and
remove points from the licences of innocent motorists.

Not sure if I wish the Landy would go that fast, or not...

Regards,

Simonm.

 

This was why I liked my old Ford Maverick - not *too* bad offroad if you
ignore the fact it would sit and spin all four wheels in different
directons if you were unlucky, but 96mph flat out was never going to lose
me my license in a hurry.

If anybody sees L892HHM anywhere please kick the driver for me - thieving
bastard still owes me 3grand for it. Idiot that I was I have no paper to
prove this.

P.

 

So many rumours proliferate this way, best to check multiple sources before
scare mongering.

Next you will be sending out warnings about blue poles at the side of the road.

 

Would you rather be warned unnecessarily or collect a speeding ticket?

My message was sent with good intent, and came to me as genuine, from a
list which is usually fairly reliable. When I was told of the error I
immediately put out a correction.

SPECS is an application processing video data streams. It does OCR and
requires a good quality signal from cameras a known distance apart. The
M4 installation has just such fitted. Admittedly there are apparently no
IR lamps, but the system would work in daylight.

As I said, I remain unconvinced about that the cameras will not be used
for SPECS sooner or later.

Regards,

Simonm.

 

"SpamTrapSeeSig" wrote in message >
..

My understanding is they are simply CCTV and have no radar detectors (like
ears) alongside like a true SPECS camera. I will look out for them next time
I travel that way.

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Regards
Bob

Use a useful Screen Saver...
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here.

 

I would rather people thought before sending out untrue stories.

So ethy all do, especially spam and viruses

Still say you should have checked 1st.

Would it ? Are you sure ? Or is that just something someone has told you ?

Paranoia

 

They're *not* radar detectors - they're IR lamps for use at night. SPECS
doesn't use any form of radar or laser for speed or distance measuring.
That's why in theory you could use any high quality camera system
(although I don't know anything about the frame rate, etc. of SPECS).


Regards,

Simonm.

 

Rudeness.


Regards,

Simonm.

 

This may be of interest: http://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk

 

While on the subject of blue poles. I know they are to do with Trafficmaster
but I have noticed (in Kent) that there are now green ones. Are they blue
ones just painted green to 'blend in' better with the hedges etc or are they
something else?

Richard

 

Can you be more specific on the URL ?

Nothing on there but a series of advertising banners as far as I can see
and certainly nothing about the M4 unless it's hidden away in some
corner.

cheers

Dave W.
http://www.yorkshireoffroadclub.net/

 

Correctness

 

Perhaps some confused elderly 1970's throwback members of the "welsh
liberation front" have got parkinsons disease and took a Saga holiday to
Kent. ?

 

While on the subject of blue poles. I know they are to do with
Trafficmaster

The green ones are government traffic cameras, operated by the Highways
Agency rather than Trafficmaster, and they are used to detect congestion and
set matrix signs appropriately. They are not speed cameras.