Oh dear. Been informed by transport office that I have been done for speeding through the road works, which some will know are several miles long, average speed 49mph at 4a.m. last Sunday morning. Limit is 40. Just to confirm the cameras do work at night!
Cosmic:
Just to confirm the cameras do work at night!
Did you think they might turn them off at night ?
did you see anyone working?
think these speed limits are getting more and more ridiculous, yes when people are working reduce the speed but at 4am I bet you drove for miles and didn’t see a soul.
if you did fair enough you should have stuck to the limit!
Ask for the name of the name of the foreman , at that time on a Sunday he must have remembered the only truck on the road. If nobody was working , who were the cameras protecting.
snelly:
Ask for the name of the name of the foreman , at that time on a Sunday he must have remembered the only truck on the road. If nobody was working , who were the cameras protecting.
And what good would this do? 
snelly:
Ask for the name of the name of the foreman , at that time on a Sunday he must have remembered the only truck on the road. If nobody was working , who were the cameras protecting.
Cameras are not just to protect the workforce
Good point. They are also a nice little earner.
Go through them every week and have just about always been held up by the usual types who have to overtake, exceeding the limit at the start, only to then crawl along. However, at least I now know they are working (thank you), which I doubted (thought they might have just been for effect so to speak) and points have at least been prevented by these types. There was one time though that I might have sped up to catch up after being held up, but my average was no doubt still under 40.
Cameras gone and all lanes due to open Friday, one year late.
no about 3 months late. where supposed to open easter this year. not that bad considering.
Sadly I haven’t a clue how to attach a story from a newspaper …But just last weekend a roadworker was killed in East Kilbride at 4.30pm …It appears he was killed by a vehicle that was working in the roadworks ,so it wouldn’t have been a high speed accident,and vision would have been good ,as it was a sunny day last Saturday …Any one concerned in transport wether it be driving ,infrastructure maintainance ,or repair of the vehicles amongst others ,we all deserve to go home at night ,We shouldn’t put others at risk just because we behind ,or want to get home a couple of minutes quicker ,and we are all guilty,and I bet roadworkers also speed through works !!!
As for the op you took the risk and got caught ,and that is taking in the tacho tolerance …I personally when in my car ( I’m a mechanic ) but even if on a roadtest ,which for me is the M74 so a lot of you will know what I have to contend with over the last few years ,but cruise control is your friend …
For any computer geeks the story if you wish to post a link is on the Daily Record and East Kilbride news
Here you go norb.
Agree on cruise control. I did that stretch of road works on my m1 just after the m6 to m1 jnc. Just set cruise control and not worry.
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Those Bodmin Moor average speed cams must have totted up hundreds of thousands of pounds in fines and if not, over a million!
Gembo:
Those Bodmin Moor average speed cams must have totted up hundreds of thousands of pounds in fines and if not, over a million!
That sounds like a good thing, a bit like a community project where those that use it most get to help pay for it. I do t have a problem with that.