Safe Speed Forums

public servants would do well to remember that they are just that, servants of the public. Please stop spying on me.

Possible saviour for you is the snow. I could be wrong, but all the SPECS I've seen scan the front number plate. With the current weather conditions, these are often covered by snow at the moment so you might be saved on that count. Maybe?

Unless it is indeed SPECS3 which is Type Approved for both directions.

Another reason to stick to back roads then!

So are specs 3 installed on the m25 or not?

business a bit slack at the minute is it?

How do your so called "safety cameras" stop the unsafe practise of driving around peering through a peep hole in the snow with 6 inches of snow on the roof?

Do you think he's actually going to answer such awkward questions?

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Don't give him easy questions -after all what's the difference between a peephole in the snow and a periscope

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lets bring sanity back to speed limits.
Drivers are like donkeys -they respond best to a carrot, not a stick .Road safety experts are like Asses - best kept covered up ,or sat on

Per Knut (Wildy's brother who lives in Cambs) - NOT on M25 but on the M11 somewhere...

Callaghan .. you know as well as we do that SPECS3 ain't on the M6 nor on Cumbrian trunks. Stop "spindrifting" around please. I may start thinkin' he's really "GreenShrek" or that really scary troll who appeared on "Merlin" which our kids recorded for our young villains (or even "villeins" to watch over Christmas.. )


Errr.. I know it's not your fault there's no grit to be 'ad out there... but if you had real concerns over road safety - you should be catterwauling from the highest roof to get this area its fair share. I mean ..we want to get to our F1 feast in Brumbrum/ham .. after all and not posting codswallop implying this area has SPECS3 when it has not.

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It makes folk wonder just what you REALLY got up to last night!

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Sorry.. Claire and mods if my reply to Greenshrek was a bit impolite but this guy has the same effect on me at times as British Naval destroyer seeing a U-Boot and thinking "depth charge" .. (or maybe the Doctor seeing a Dalek or a Zoltan whatever...... I am sure Greenshrek may raise a smile ... and not break a mirror or a camera lens


Yep .. you can guess how I spent Christmas with our kids. (Only my kids liken me more to the Master than the Doctor )

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If you want to get to heaven - you have to raise a little hell!

Smilies are contagious
They are just like the flu
We use our smilies on YOU today
Now Good Causes are smiling too!

KEEP SMILING
It makes folk wonder just what you REALLY got up to last night!

Smily to penny.. penny to pound
safespeed prospers-smiles all round! !
But the real message? SMILE.. GO ON ! DO IT! and the world will smile with you!
Enjoy life! You only have the one bite at it.

Ok so asusming they werent specs 3 as theyre not on there yet.

do specs 1 and 2 prosecute by recording your speed along each individual cmaera distance or overall?

I mean suppose someone came out as averaging 55 between 2 pairs.. but 47 between the entire route of them?

Do they take all the figure into consideration or do they go on any infringement betwene any set?

I think I was doing 55 for abouut 15-20 seconds.

Rob, If I were you I would stop worrying.

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

The CURRENT specs can check your speed through the overall system, or any parts of same.
Why bother worrying ?
Just drive slowly.
In a 50 governed section drive at 40.....after all...if its a single carriageway the TRUCKS are supposed to be doing that (and specs can target different vehicles)

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56 years after it was decided it was needed, the Bedford Bypass is nearing completion. The last single carriageway length of it.We have the most photogenic mayor though, always being photographed doing nothing

Not a very good way to make someone popular, advising driving at 40MPH on a 50MPH limit single carriageway!!!

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

Reading between the lines from this post and others by Rob ,he's not an experienced driver -but he's decided to seek help .He wants to learn and understand more of the man made perils facing drivers -which will make him a better driver .
Compare driving over your personal speed limit to someone driving whilst on the mobile -lack of concentration /no allround vision etc .Slow down to a more comfortable speed and you've got time to look around,check behind , keep half an eye peeled for problems etc .That'swhat I read into the above suggestion -if Rob feels that 50 is too fast for keeping tabs on the speedo as well as the EXTRA hazards introduced by the Specs -then he's decided to drive at a speed ,which he feels safe at .When he feels comfortable at that speed ,e may decide that he can increase his speed and keep tabs on the speedo .
And -to the old sea dog - are you trying to let new drivers gain some confidence in their abilities -it's all very sailing in a flat calm - and very different in a force10 .( unless you're a few fathoms down -in your case somewhere near a certain Mr Jones ).

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lets bring sanity back to speed limits.
Drivers are like donkeys -they respond best to a carrot, not a stick .Road safety experts are like Asses - best kept covered up ,or sat on

In this weather he should be looking at driving slower than that !
And you're missing the point. The latest version of specs can differentiate between types of vehicles....so (for instance) truckers are going to find themselves with problems. THEY are supposed to proceed at a maximum of 40mph on a s/c road (and most vans at 50). I can see loads of revenue from those two groups of vehicles, neither of which pay any attention to THEIR maximum speeds.

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The world runs on oil, period. No other substance can compete when it comes to energy density, flexibility, ease of handling, ease of transportation. If oil didn’t exist we would have to invent it.”

56 years after it was decided it was needed, the Bedford Bypass is nearing completion. The last single carriageway length of it.We have the most photogenic mayor though, always being photographed doing nothing

hi i drive to work along the M60 every day, and as always I keep to my speed limit when I pass the specs speed zone which is on the M60 motorway. anyway yesterday when I was driving to work, although I was driving and looking straight into the road my mind was somewhere else I passed the first specs camera and did not no, until the car in front of me had to brake and in turn i slowed my vehicle down. I then looked in to my speedometer and the dial was on 50mph. but I was way pass the first camera.

will I be prosecuted

Please help me

Watchman - protocol would suggest that you post one of these questions.Might i point mods to viewtopic.php?f=5&t=21985, and ask for confirmation , and advice to our new poster -possibly it's that he's new to this forum ( L PLATE ) and could do with some polite advice on double posting .

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lets bring sanity back to speed limits.
Drivers are like donkeys -they respond best to a carrot, not a stick .Road safety experts are like Asses - best kept covered up ,or sat on