blue speed cameras! M60

[phill*]

anyone travel on m60??? they finally did it... blue cams on bridges are now speed cams. how long before they all are activated sneeky b******s even the ones in villages???

 

[Tom]

Hmm im sure traffic master will not charge you for speeding

 

[phill*]

nope...

the cameras on that strech of m60 are to small blue ones on the bridges, a friend of mine has looked into this and its true

 

[Griff]

Speed sensing cameras perhaps (works out average spped of all motorway traffic for updates/traffic reports etc) but I doubt they are the kind of speed cameras you are thinking about.

 

[phill*]

nope...

number plates

but i maybe wrong... even so, how long before they all become this style

 

[Bryan]

as griff says

but then again, every post phill* has posted seems to want to start an argument

 

[Tom]

Rolls eyes.

 

[phill*]

awww...

sorry

 

[phill*]

even my KTEC CAT, or my current 30-70 post?? meanies!!

 

[Griff]

Types of detectors that I know of and have seen are Gatso, Specs and Truevelo. Blue cams - Im sticking with my original assumption.

 

[Lee]

I always thought these were traffic master cameras too, but I think some of the newer cameras look similar to these now.

Have you checked: http://www.speed-trap.co.uk/http://www.speed-trap.co.uk/

 

[Kelly]

I travel down round the M60 alot - ill have a nosey at these cameras next time im there, i know what the traffic master ones look like

 

[Swervin_Mervin]

Theyd never put them in on the M60, as long as the current chief of GMP stays where he is. He doesnt believe in scameras or traffic police.

Thereve always been cameras of this type on m-way bridges, but Im not sure what they do. Id have thought they measure the traffic density myself.

 

[phill*]

it not a new type of camera its an adaptation of current technology

 

[madmat]

theres a few of them cameras round here in northwales, but my dad goes out on his motorbike with the police bikers and they said there traffic master, not speed cameras they just give indications of traffic flow.

 

[darren_hg]

what stretch of the M60 / junctions ?

ill have a look on the way home

 

[poundrick]

The cameras in question are traffic master cameras they do record your average speed and number plate but this info is only used for the traffic master system, the cameras that were ontop of yellow poles were speed cameras but they were only used when the roadworks were being done recently

 

[Kelly]

Quote: Originally posted by mike8579 on 19 November 2003


Theyd never put them in on the M60, as long as the current chief of GMP stays where he is. He doesnt believe in scameras or traffic police.

So what about the traffic copper who lives on the M60/M62 between Junctions 17 and 20? I see him EVERY night with a different car hes pulled over. He pulled me about 3 months ago because he thought my numberplate was fake. He let me go after 2 minutes..

 

[Klang1.6]

wherre are these blue demons then cos i go on the m60

 

[blink172]

They are all over the M4/M40, all they are are traffic control cameras (infrared). As per current legislation they must be yellow if they are cash machines, er sorry speed cameras.

 

[Swervin_Mervin]

Kel, they do still have traffic police, but there numbers are being cut drastically. Im not sure what happens with m-way police though, cos arent they on their own (central motorway police?)?

Or are they part of that but affiliated to the nearest force? I was done by Chehire police on the M56, so thought they were affiliated.

 

[Kelly]

Mike - I have no idea, LOL

 

[cliopower]

The cops have small stations next to motorway service stations - have a look next time you are there. It is law that they have to warn you that there is a speed camera with a sign and paint the feckin thing yellow. They should stop trying tol catch motorist going 10mph oover and concentrate on bloody car crime instead of not coming out and giving you a crime ref number which is useless. They might be tax disc scanner. theres some strange cameras near kwikfit in leeds too.

 

[Dootchy]

These cameras (blue, either roadside or bridge mounted) are currently used to monitor traffic flow & average speed only. The technology can (and most probably will) be used to issue tickets in the future.

I have already had it on good authority (from a copper) that the newest Truvelo cameras (blue, front facing, infrared lense) are linked to these, but they currently still rely solely on the 3 white rumble strips approx 5 yrds in front of the cash machine to trigger it & issue you with a ticket. I have recently driven the A14 several times to & from Essex- it is loaded with these things, & truvellos, and I relied on braking in front of the camera down to 70mph after sitting at 100 all the way between them- I got no tickets at all.