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[Travel] Average Speed Cameras



Official Old Man

Uckfield Seagull
Aug 27, 2011
8,486
Brighton
Whilst driving down the M23 through the road works, I was surprised at the number of cars shooting along but then braking at the camera. I'm used to average speed cameras on the M6 but wondered if those who rarely us the M23 know how they work?
 


Frankie

Put him in the curry
May 23, 2016
4,102
Mid west Wales
No point in slowing down to the limit at the camera if you've been doing way over the limit in between the cameras i would of thought that's how they catch you , on average over a alloted distance , it's the way forward apparently , smart motorways .
 


Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
Do they work though? I'm not sure they do.

A younger colleague of mine was worrying for weeks after he was certain he was speeding through them, never heard anything.

Maybe regular users of this road know something we don't.

They work, years ago I got a ticket. First time I’d come across them, it was early on a Sunday morning and there was no work going on and virtually no traffic so I ignored the warnings about 50 mph average speed cameras and drove through at 60ish and was seriously pissed to get a ticket.

I haven’t tested it since :smile:
 


Herr Tubthumper

Well-known member
NSC Patreon
Jul 11, 2003
59,198
The Fatherland
What’s the difference between an average one and, say, a top of the range speed camera?
 


WATFORD zero

Well-known member
NSC Patreon
Jul 10, 2003
25,660
Whenever I come across an average speed camera I pull in, read a paper for 5 mins and then floor it :smile:
 




jessiejames

Never late in a V8
Jan 20, 2009
2,688
Brighton, United Kingdom
M23 and M20 just before junction 10 average speed camera are working, work colleague who has been caught by M20 one, and I know someone who installed the M 23 cameras.

Also advised M20 camera on the gantry showing variable speeds do work.
 


Simgull

Well-known member
Jan 3, 2013
1,637
Hove
What’s going on with the M23 anyway? Roadworks from M25 to Crawley until spring 2020. Anyone know what they are doing? The road surface is far better than the M25 - which is awful
 


studio150

Well-known member
Jul 30, 2011
29,553
On the Border
They certainly work when the A23 was being widened at Handcross hundreds got tickets.
No doubt many will do so on the M23
 




studio150

Well-known member
Jul 30, 2011
29,553
On the Border
What’s going on with the M23 anyway? Roadworks from M25 to Crawley until spring 2020. Anyone know what they are doing? The road surface is far better than the M25 - which is awful

Upgrading to smart motorway so basically no hard shoulder and occasional emergency lay bys
 


Poojah

Well-known member
Nov 19, 2010
1,881
Leeds
They definitely work. I attended a speed awareness course a few years ago and I’d say that roughly half the attendees had been caught by average speed cameras.

I quite like smart motorways to be honest - they seem to work in general. My issue is that they seem
To apply a 50mph limit to far greater stretches of motorway than they can actually work on at any given time during their installation. It’s difficult to believe that this is not an least in part a revenue generating exercise.
 


BensGrandad

New member
Jul 13, 2003
72,015
Haywards Heath
I have often wondered why they do not remove the cameras on the A24 near Dial Poast and replace them with a camera 100yds south of the Bucks Barn Traffic lights and 1 a 100 yards north pf the Washington round about as I am sure that they would get a lot of people with a large amount of money comking in for fines. Yes the likes of Katie Price goin g off at Thakeham would not get caught but many more would. The existing ones on the A24 arepointless now as evereybody slams their braked on to go through the cameras.hence the police often use a mobile just around the bend from the northern most one.
 
























BensGrandad

New member
Jul 13, 2003
72,015
Haywards Heath
But they won't raise a single penny unless you go over the speed limit. It really is that simple.

The ones on the A24 serve neither purpose as people speed up to it, slam their brakes on to go past the camera then speed again to do the same at the next one down the road
 



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