Thousands of M6 drivers hit by 50mph speeding fines.

[developer]

I expect the reason is they want to round up some candidates for their speed awareness course

Mine is this week .

I sent a letter in saying I was already aware of how to speed, but, strangely, they weren't impressed .

 

[John]

It's more common to set limiter to around 57 in a 50 zone to take into account car speedometers that are set to over-read speed.

I wouldn't be able to.

My car is doing 50mph when the speedo says 51mph.

So I set at 54/55mph.

 

[cb1965]

Providing the signage was there informing drivers of the limit , those who chose to disregard it have only themselves to blame , and get no sympathy from me .

There's nothing difficult about obeying speed limits , so why do so many choose to flout them then complain when they are caught ?

Because in many cases (maybe not in this case however) the speed limits make no sense to an intelligent human being!

 

[cb1965]

The average cameras are easy in Merc - just set the speed limiter to 55. The variable ones need a close eye though - sometimes the speeds can be all over the place. Colleague got done on the M42 for 46 when they were set to 40 for no apparent reason early one morning.

M62 Brighouse 3:35am last Thursday - variable limits at 60 and 50mph! I was the only car on the road. The system is there to rob you and nothing more. It's a sly way of camera'ing up the whole motorway network!

 

[Peter T]

M62 Brighouse 3:35am last Thursday - variable limits at 60 and 50mph! I was the only car on the road. The system is there to rob you and nothing more. It's a sly way of camera'ing up the whole motorway network!

Completely agree!

We went to Brighton from the midlands last Thursday, M1, M25, M23, A23. The bottom end of the M1 and the M25 were busy, but moving. The variable limits were all over the place, 60, 40, 50, etc, etc. It seemed like every gantry had a different number on it.

This completely disrupted the trafic flow. Instead of being able to proceed at a steady, but reduced speed, there was constant braking, speeding up, braking etc. Yes, you could just stick to the minimum speed, but then you would be constantly being overtaken by everything else on the road, including artics, which is not a comfortable feeling.

 

[219]

I wouldn't be able to.

My car is doing 50mph when the speedo says 51mph.

So I set at 54/55mph.

And so it is with many vehicles .

 

[TheFoX]

Some speed limits make sense, then there are some that don't. On the M25 the other day, each gantry was reducing the speed limit from 60 to 50 to 40 to 30, then back to 40 then back to 50, then down to 40 then down to 30, then back up again. You get the picture.

Considering that I, and hundreds of other drivers, were all sharing the same footprint of road, why were the speed limits varying at each gantry? Makes no sense to me. It's not as if aliens were dropping an additional thousand cars in to that stretch of road, then extracting them at the next gantry.

Why not just leave the speed limit at 70, and allow natural queueing to slow traffic down, as what normally happens on carriageways.

While on the subject of traffic control, why is there such a need to deploy temporary traffic lights at every opportunity. I've even seen lights set up for roadworks that had previously been cancelled. Totally uncalled for.

Oh, well, never mind.

 

[cb1965]

Completely agree!

We went to Brighton from the midlands last Thursday, M1, M25, M23, A23. The bottom end of the M1 and the M25 were busy, but moving. The variable limits were all over the place, 60, 40, 50, etc, etc. It seemed like every gantry had a different number on it.

This completely disrupted the trafic flow. Instead of being able to proceed at a steady, but reduced speed, there was constant braking, speeding up, braking etc. Yes, you could just stick to the minimum speed, but then you would be constantly being overtaken by everything else on the road, including artics, which is not a comfortable feeling.

Yep, that is what I find over and over. The system is supposed to alter the speed limits to optimise the traffic flow, but it does nothing of the sort. The system is based on flawed algorithms which are either deliberately flawed or just another example of authorities' incompetence!

 

[geraldrobins]

I expect the reason is they want to round up some candidates for their speed awareness course - most of the people on the one my colleague attended had been caught the same way.

Disagree

 

[John]

Disagree

You say that but don't plod make a lot of money from the courses?

 

[geraldrobins]

You say that but don't plod make a lot of money from the courses?

I disagree that the cameras were set up just to encourage more people to attend speed awareness courses.
My post was that I thought that maybe the cameras were set at a lower than necessary speed was because of a time delay in the conditions changings and the cameras being reset.

I don't know how much money is made from the courses and who gets it.