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No speeding problem here then. Eight a week, just over one speeder caught per day. Hardly a speeding epidemic. I predict a lecture.
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No speeding problem here then. Eight a week, just over one speeder caught per day. Hardly a speeding epidemic. I predict a lecture.
Those were just the small proportion of speeders who were too thick to brake at the speed camera and got caught - any habitual speeder familiar with a road will just slow for the cameras and accelerate in between. You can go out any time and see people slowing for those cameras, then speeding down the hill. If there was no problem, then nobody would get caught would they?No speeding problem here then. Eight a week, just over one speeder caught per day. Hardly a speeding epidemic. I predict a lecture.
I never knew that fixed speed cameras weren't switched on all year round.
I never knew that fixed speed cameras weren't switched on all year round.
The A3024 in Southampton has a camera which catches 7264 people per year. Of course it is public knowledge that all of the fixed cameras are only activated for a certain proportion of time and are not active 365 days a year. Locals report that it flashes that often that they no longer need street lighting. This gives a bench mark compared to the 412 speeders there are on the Wolverhampton Road.
The A3024 in Southampton has a camera which catches 7264 people per year. Of course it is public knowledge that all of the fixed cameras are only activated for a certain proportion of time and are not active 365 days a year. Locals report that it flashes that often that they no longer need street lighting. This gives a bench mark compared to the 412 speeders there are on the Wolverhampton Road.
Told you so...I think you've missed the point...
There may also be a perception issue combined with not reading signs in Southampton, which is the drivers fault for not paying attention.
No problem, I have just posted on www.southamptonforum.com, that their locals can't read road signs. Not expecting any replies though as they will have to get an outsider to read the post to them.
There may also be a perception issue combined with not reading signs in Southampton, which is the drivers fault for not paying attention.
No problem, I have just posted on www.southamptonforum.com, that their locals can't read road signs. Not expecting any replies though as they will have to get an outsider to read the post to them.
Driving towards Acton Gate, after the last fixed camera, I have been overtaken several times when doing 30 in the 30 limit, and equally overtaken through Acton Gate doing 40 in the 40 limit. On the majority of occasions I drive that section of road either: the vehicle in front pulls away from me fairly rapidly or the one behind catches up quickly. This happens when I am doing 30. Unless the space time continuum in Moss Pit and Acton Gate is disrupted, they are exceeding the limit.
Maybe your speedo is out ?
Most speedos do 'read up' a bit.
Equally, a lot of people just brake when they see a yellow box, just in case - they often don't know what they're doing or what they're supposed to be doing - better be 'safe'.