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Now people blowing through active roadworks at the normal speed do annoy me, but if the workers are close enough to the traffic to get "sucked " into the road as Brian Swanson suggests then there should be a convoy system in operation.

Of course cameras themselves will be useless because it will be two weeks later by the driver figures out what they have done. During the M4/A34 works they had some HUGE and very bright SID's in operation that seemed to do the trick, not a camera in sight.

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=101672005

Speeding traps net £25,000 in just two hours
Camera blitz catches drivers going nearly twice legal limit
ALAN RODEN

MOTORISTS clocked up more than £25,000 worth of fines in just two hours after being caught at a city speed trap.

Speed cameras recorded up to five drivers every minute shooting past roadworks on the M8/M9 westbound link at almost double the 40mph speed limit.

The mobile cameras visited the site of the roadworks after workmen complained drivers were regularly flouting the temporary limit.

There are worries a workman could be killed by cars flashing past at up to 75mph.

In two mid-morning spells of one hour yesterday and last Friday, the cameras caught 553 drivers breaking the speed limit. About half of them were doing more than 60mph.

All those drivers, apart from a small number who were only very slightly over the limit, will get £60 fines through the post and three penalty points put on their driving licences.

The Lothian and Borders Safety Camera Partnership, a partnership of the police, the Scottish Executive and local authorities, which oversees the operation of the cameras, is sending out fines totalling more than £25,000.

The offending road, which is at junction two of the M8 near Claylands Farm, is being relaid by workmen one lane at a time.

The usual 70mph speed limit has been reduced to 40mph to protect the workers at the side of the road for the next three weeks

However, hundreds of motorists are ignoring warning signs and putting lives in danger.

Brian Swanson, project manager of the Safety Camera Partnership, said he had introduced extra signs in the area in a bid to reduce the number of speeding cars, but warned that someone could be killed unless drivers slow down.

He said the stretch of road was creating "one of the worst examples" of speeding he has ever seen.

"Considering that this is someone’s workplace, it is particularly frightening that people tend to speed through," he said.

"A workman was killed on the city by-pass some years ago after a driver was speeding past roadworks.

"There is a real danger here - cars are going by at 70mph and the air suction could drag someone on to the road.

"I’m left to wonder - why are people ignoring the speed limit here?

"We’re not here to raise money. If that was the case, then we would be in place all day, but we only spend one hour on site at the moment."

The number of fixed and mobile camera sites in the city was increased to 35 in June 2003 as part of a blitz on speeding drivers.

New cameras were installed at 17 accident blackspots as part of a £2 million initiative.

Fines handed out to speeding motorists have more than trebled since then, with an average of 55 people now caught speeding every day in the Capital.

The rise sparked concern that drivers were being used as "cash cows".

But chief inspector Murray Dykes, of Lothian and Borders Police traffic division, said the mobile cameras on the M8 were only put in place to protect the workmen and ensure their safety.

He said: "This is a health and safety issue. People need to be told to slow down.

"Reaction times are significantly reduced when people speed, and serious accidents can happen."

Kenny Kerr, unit manager for Amey Infrastructure Services, said: "The safety of the contractor’s workforce is of paramount importance and we welcome any initiative from the police which will allow road workers to work with optimum safety."

It's alright we believe you P.S. at the moment-in other words see how much we can make





Why do they always use such emotive issues to make people feel guilty, they are making it sound as if cars are driving past people sitting at desks





It's no wonder they take so long to repair roads now, all the workmen are now employed by the scamerati


It is downright dangerous to go too fast through these roadworks but not when the speed limit has been significantly reduced for no other reason than revenue raising. On the M77 roadworks their is limits through the built up areas-fair enough-but past the works back on the dual carriageway for about 3 miles the 40 limit is still present with a camera at the end of it, why is the camera not in the roadwork area? I'll tell you why because you CAN'T go much faster than 40 through it therefore they wouldn't raise any cash from the evil motorists.


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Andrew

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