French speed camera
They really are that big!
[Edited on 15/1/11 by David Jenkins]
Hidden speed cameras linky
Be careful if you see a f'kin big piece of cheese by the side of the road.
I'd love to pull up to one of the garbage ones, open a giant bin bag and just tip it all into it, then deposit at the nearest tip!
The days of the wankers using their own cars , and the camera on a tripod are long gone....
Marked vehicles and signs are the base line, they are prone to using small signs, but there by the grace of God you go.
Never made any difference to road safety in any county in the UK - Period !
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Originally posted by T66
The days of the wankers using their own cars , and the camera on a tripod are long gone....
Marked vehicles and signs are the base line, they are prone to using small signs, but there by the grace of God you go.
Never made any difference to road safety in any county in the UK - Period !
My first was in 1977. It was one of those long black boxes sat on the rear parcel shelf of an unmarked Vauxhall Viva HB parked fully on the pavement in Preston centre. The cop car was 100 yds up the road behind a hedge. The copper jumped out in front of me in my first car (Ford Anglia). I nearly ran the silly plod down. Those speed detectors had been in use (to my knowledge) for at least 5/6 years before that!
I was under the impression (from their own website) that speed cameras are not to be hidden. Also the locations of these cameras have to be published (again from and on their own website)
I like the French approach to speed cameras - first you see a ginormous warning sign (2 x 3 metres in some places), then road markings and, in one
place, even rumble strips. After that, in the next kilometre or so, there will be a little grey camera box hidden somewhere.
Basically, if you're dumb enough to exceed the speed limit for the next few minutes after the sign then you deserve a ticket!
Mind you - their mobile speed traps are not so friendly - they have to put up a sign before the camera/laser/whatever, but it isn't very big and
easily missed.
Found a picture of the French speed camera warning sign...
French speed camera
They really are that big!
[Edited on 15/1/11 by David Jenkins]
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
Found a picture of the French speed camera warning sign...
They really are that big!
The way fuel prices are going no one will be on the roads 
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Originally posted by jacko
The way fuel prices are going no one will be on the roads
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
Found a picture of the French speed camera warning sign...
They really are that big!
My picture's vanished! 
Stand by...
...OK - mended.
[Edited on 15/1/11 by David Jenkins]
We had a regular camera van just down the bottom of our road in a place where you could not justify any speeding, they have just moved the 40mph signs
500mtrs further down onto a dual carriageway (3/4 mile from original site into open country) and moved the camera van to suit, its now there every day
raking it in.
Pete will be familiar with where I mean, there is absolutely no doubt it as been done to generate cash not safety at all, its now positioned in an
area where even the most speed aware drivers would be taking there foot off the gas and coasting towards the end of the duel carriageway (uphill)
reducing speed ready to enter a built up area. To cap it all they have also removed all the painted warnings from the road surface that you are
entering a 40mph zone ?