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I saw my first Cheshire Talivan this afternoon (a fairly new scamera partnership).

Was it on a main road through a residential area, where children might have been playing on a Saturday afternoon, or near a hospital or an old folks' home? No, of course not. It was on a wide-open A-road through an industrial estate, with no property frontages at all, which used to be NSL but for a few years now has been a ridiculous 30.

It was extremely obvious, but many drivers, particularly if approaching from the "town" direction, probably wouldn't have realised this road was a 30 in the first place. And does your average middle-aged weekend driver even know what a Talivan looks like? A more blatant revenue-raising exercise is hard to imagine

This road certainly shouldn't have a limit lower than 40 (A533 heading from Runcorn towards Northwich through the Whitehouse Industrial Estate)

I was kindly flashed by an oncoming motorist when approaching the site (although I knew I might find a Talivan there) and returned the favour to some other drivers once I had passed it.

The irony is that, 400 yards past the site, the road enters a small village with pub, shop and a scattering of houses. But the limit goes up to 40 for that!

I would also add that I was so annoyed by this sight that for the next ten miles or so I was conscious of my driving standards slipping somewhat from the norm.

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Made a trip upto L Buzzard, Beds today, looking for a new bike for spring.

They have reduced the limit on a local road to 40 mph & fixed camera's, could not believe it.

Straight, wide road, easily safe to travel at 60 mph.

It does wind me up

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Steve

There was an article in the local paper about large number of people complaining about being caught at this site - which really shouldn't be, and doesn't look like, a 30.

One was from a pensioner who had been driving since 1945 and this was his first ever conviction.

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I think that the Scamera Partnerships / police / councils responsible for this should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

Just for money. This is not about safety, just money.

I agree that some speed limits are ridiculously low but I wonder how many people caught by the scam van were aware of what the speed limit was?
I can think of the Ingleby Barwick link road before it was connected to the A66 recently, which had a section of two lane dual carriageway in an industrial area with no connecting roads and a 30 limit with no repeater signs on the lamposts or whatever. Absolutely bonkers IMO. It's now been raised to 40 with the opening of the new bit.