Stafford Traffic.

The Hawk

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Tbf, if you want people to drop into town while they wait… a slower rapid is a good choice
Exactly. Not everywhere needs to have ultra rapid chargers, 7kW is fine for hotels, 11-50 for town/shopping centre car parks, with the faster ones located in places like this: https://www.drivingelectric.com/cha...ns-electric-forecourt-charging-hub-in-norwich
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proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Tbf, if you want people to drop into town while they wait… a slower rapid is a good choice
The point is that 50kw is not a rapid charger and should not be labelled as such. I'm not saying a 50kw charger isn't the right choice for the location.

As for 7kw chargers at hotels, then I don't think that's really adequate for some of the current crop of EVs, not to mention the EVs to come. Not only do we need a decent EV charging infrastructure in place for 2030, but it has to be capable of being able to charge the EVs of 2030 in a timely manner. We could well be in a place where the average battery size of a new EV is 200kw or more, unless solid state is in play by then. You're not going to be grateful for a 7kw charger then...
 

kyoto49

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Why is the M6 between 14 & 15 still a 60mph zone both ways? There is no work going on and it appears the whole pointless project is now finished?
 

The Hawk

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Why is the M6 between 14 & 15 still a 60mph zone both ways? There is no work going on and it appears the whole pointless project is now finished?
They keep the limit at 60 mph while they fully test and calibrate the Stopped Vehicle Detection System, before increasing the limit back to 70 mph once that is complete.
 

Lucy

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I know someone who ignored the 60 limit (once they'd only got it on the overhead gantries) between 15 and 14 a number of times in April and May and hasn't had a ticket.
 

gilesjuk

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Towards Birmingham they had a sign up with "60mph limit for air quality reasons".

Oh and as for buying an EV, you're on a 6 month waiting list for many of them.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
I know someone who got a tickets for driving in a bus lane in Stafford on a Sunday morning, when there were signs up saying it was not in operation, due to roadworks.
 

PeterD

ST16 Represent.
I had to go on a driving improvement course as I was a little over the gantry speed. They work sadly. That said mine was just off the M6 toll.
 

kyoto49

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They keep the limit at 60 mph while they fully test and calibrate the Stopped Vehicle Detection System, before increasing the limit back to 70 mph once that is complete.
I mean how long can that take, we can build space rockets to send people to the moon quicker than this bunch can test the detect a stuck vehicle thingy :(
 

kyoto49

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I had to go on a driving improvement course as I was a little over the gantry speed. They work sadly. That said mine was just off the M6 toll.
Yeah the rule of thumb is that the variable speed limit sections have working speed cameras. It's only worth the risk in the normal sections such as between 15 and 16 and 19 to 20 m6 going north for example. Going south its far until there isn't any working cameras.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
I mean how long can that take, we can build space rockets to send people to the moon quicker than this bunch can test the detect a stuck vehicle thingy :(
The time between Kennedy saying "We're going to the Moon" and Armstrong saying "One small step" was less than 3,000 days.
 

Studio Tan

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What was Kennedy’s quote, something like : “We choose to break the speed limit because it is easy not because it is hard” ?
 

Cue

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Towards Birmingham they had a sign up with "60mph limit for air quality reasons".

Oh and as for buying an EV, you're on a 6 month waiting list for many of them.
Whenever I see that sign I think “alright, where’s my priority lane so I can go faster then?”

Never seen one though
 

kyoto49

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Thanks but no date for finishing what is surely quite a tiny part of the project?

I did however spot the linked article about cameras being upgraded to automatically fine people who continue to drive up lanes closed off by gantry signed red X's. Bout bloody time! Should be a grand not a hundred quid.

Now if they could fine middle and outside lane morons who drive there when the inside lane is empty the roads would be a far better place for everyone!
 
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