Sorry its a bit late, but going to Alloa tomorrow up the M6 and M74. Before I set my cruise control on 85mph at 6am to go up a deserted motorway north of Preston, are there any cameras I need to watch out for?
TIA
EIII
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Just checked the AA road atlas with speed cameras identified and it does not show any.
Have not driven it lately so only know what the 2006 atlas says.
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According to this website there are number plate cameras on overhead bridges on the M6 and M74:
thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=827122006 (see third paragraph from the end).
Also see:
www.abd.org.uk/cameras/map.htm and www.abd.org.uk/talivan.htm
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Worth keeping an eye on the bridges overhead for mobile vans between Lancaster and the Lakes. They used to be seen there a lot a few years ago, dunno if it's still the case.
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It's mentioned in one of the links I posted in fact, including a photograph of one of said vans discreetly hidden until almost the last second...:-)
So it obviously does still apply.
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It's mentioned in one of the links I posted in fact,
Ah yes, but I'm sure Espada is glad to get confirmation from someone as obviously knowledgeable as myself! ;)
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Thanks all. I was last up there in February 2005 and remember a couple of mobile units on the bridges going home, but suspect that that 6am - 8am which is the time I will be going up the M6 they will not have woken up yet (I hope!).
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watch out for the van on the overhead bridges in dumfries and galloway (just past gretna)= easy qouta filler for the month end
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Bazza and Stuart - I thank you!
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watch out for the van on the overhead bridges in dumfries and galloway (just past gretna)= easy qouta filler for the month
Unfortunately that was a little late for me, go done by that one in May this year (stil waiting for Boots to send me the negatives!)
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M9 & M876 have mobile units on them - Roadworks for now Kincardine Bridge - more mobiles about.
Usually on Bridges - if they are there thye will see you before you see them - radar detector might help
There were no Camera Partnerships for Central Police last year buyt there is this year.
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On the the A74m stretch patrolled by Dumfries & Galloway police you will see a patrol BMW on the carriageway going up & down.
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Its not what you drive, its how you drive it! :-)
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It always used to be said that the traffic cops round Shap were especially vigilant, but have never had personal experience or known anyone nabbed there so perhaps an old wive's tale.
Steady in that new toy of yours....
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If you are near a Lidl store at any time during the day, the 2007 edition of the AA road atlas with speed camera markings goes on sale tomorrow (Thursday) for £1.99...:-)
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Espada, last year a colleague got done by a camera van on the M74 for 78mph! Up till then I always thought that 80mph was OK!
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Keep below the ACPO guidelines, observe correct spacing, then nothing to worry about whether the cameras, or police, are watching!
IIRC guideline for fixed penalty in 70 mph area is 78 mph
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Keep below the ACPO guidelines, observe correct spacing, then nothing to worry about whether the cameras, or police, are watching! IIRC guideline for fixed penalty in 70 mph area is 78 mph
ISTR someone done for less than 10% over the limit by average-speed cameras, who reported to the backroom that they had been told that when averages were in use, the peolice didn't feel obliged to be offer such generous margins.
Also, do remember that those ACPO guidelines are just that: guidelines. Forces can prosecute at 1mph over the limit, though most are unlikely to do so because at those margins they have little room for error in the accuracy of their equipment. But wasn't Lancashire constabulary at one point threatening zero-tolerance, without the 10%+2 margin?
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unmarked silver Merc estate.........saw it earlier in the year on the M74......blue lamps in the grill and flashing rear/blue reds in the back window.......
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>>But wasn't Lancashire constabulary at one point threatening zero-tolerance, without the 10%+2 margin?>>
I know of one person who has been done for travelling past a speed camera in Bretherton (Lancashire) at 32mph.
The camera, plus another on the other side of the road, are both outside a school.
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I'm back - safe and sound and I think ticket and point free (I hope!)
Left north Manchester at 5:45am and got to Abington (J13 M74) at about 8:05am. That's about 175 miles. No sign of cameras etc. Drove gently to Alloa via Kincardine Bridge and saw varoius signs for cameras, but didn't see that many???
Then went to Glasgow for lunch and left at 3:00pm to come home arrived at 6:50pm as there was lots of traffic at the border (following an accident several hours earlier and another multicar shunt by Preston - not to mention the lemmings going to the Trafford Centre for Christmas Shopping causing mayhem on the M61.
I kept my eyes peeled for mobile cameras on bridges over the southbound M74 but didn't spot any........I think I'll wait 14 days!
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Oh and 520 miles of which 25 was spent in Manchester urban crawl before the trip at an overall average of 26.2mpg. I think thats OK for a 3.0 Outback.
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You'll be OK on the M6 in Lancashire, but Cumbria use safety partnership vans on the bridges and these will do you at 79mph. They operate anytime during daylight hours, so be careful.
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>>They operate anytime during daylight hours, so be careful>>
Espada III {P} has been there and back already...:-)
Quite a trip.
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So opinion on this thread is to keep a good look out for speed cameras while driving.
However the speed camera thread has:
>>Drivers can check their speedo and drive safely it just means they will spend a bit less time >>looking at the road and more time checking their speed.
and other similar phrases regularly repeated
Evidently it is safe to repeatedly take your eye of the traffic etc. to look out for speed cameras, but dangerous to look at the cars instrument dials
Sorry, but I'm very confused
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Yawn.
Guess what? Different people have different opinions. If you would like to cross-check this thread against that one, find anyone who has posted alledgedly contradictory opinions in both and ask that particular person to explain themselves, be my guest. But please don't whine at me about an opinion I've never expressed.
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