Speed Cameras

[wrighty]

If the goverment is to pass a bill saying that if you pass a speed camera at 33mph that you will go on a speed awereness program and not fine you, where is all the revenue to come from to replace the fines and the extra cost of the program!!!!!!!![V]

[noel]

I think the cameras are bringing in enough revenue to pay for the courses.

[noel]

There aren't any in the Isle of Man, what a wonderful place. I've never seen any in the Highlands where abouts are they Audrey? My usual jaunts are around Glencoe/Fort Bill/Skye ( west Highlands)

[accy stan]

NOEL, when I lived over there, every year I would go fishing for a week to Loch Shiel. Our rout was through Glasgow, over Glencoe across the Balagulish and Strontian ferries to a little village named Acharacle. We stayed at the Shiel Hotel which is on the western end of the loch close to the river Shiel. Imagine my surprise when I was invited to a friends cottage on Saturna Island, which is one of the gulf islands between Vancouver and Vancouver Island, on the wall were four pictures of Loch Shiel which I recognised right away. Her mothers maiden name was Shiel and that,s were she was born, small world eh.

[DavidBatty]

If you visit this link you can click on a county on the map to see a list of cameras with location details of each.....

http://www.speedcamerasuk.com/locationsdatabase.htm

[Spycam]

There are rummours about that they might introduce dual action speed cameras that work both as they do now, after you have passed them, but also as you aproach them as well.
My driving licence says I can drive as fast as I like!!
...near the bottom it says "please tear along the dotted line"[]

If they had cameras on the Isle of Man they would get interesting results during TT week!![]

[Spitfire]

The TV today showed a driver on the speed awarness course IN LEYLAND! You can avoid the £60 penalty by opting for the one-day course that costs £90. The only thing in it`s favour is that you don`t collect the three points.

[LDunlop76]

You should not have been charged with 31 MPH, Kath. My understanding was that the police had to allow an extra 10% (i.e. 33 MPH in your case) for instrument calibration error.

A friend of ours was stopped for allegedly doing 31MPH in Liverpool. When he showed his business card to the PC trying to book him, all charges were rapidly dropped. His business card read "solicitor at law". Wish I could have seen the copper's face! LOL!

[LDunlop76]

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Originally posted by kath whiston

I thought there was the allowance of a couple of miles. But was informed quite specifically, at the end of the day I was speeding, and that no allowance existed any more.

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Tight b*ggers!

[anacortesdamp]

If there's a web site telling you where the cameras are, why aren't there a bunch of vigilantes going round smashing them to pieces?

The remedy in this part of the world would be a quarter stick of dynamite or a burst from an Uzi.


Frank