Average Speed Cameras A77

[Doon frae Troon]

A word of warning to those using the Ayrshire trunk road.
New short distance ASC's have now been placed at the Entry/Exits of all the villages on this route.
They are through the 20,30 and 40 mph zones.
Coming down the hill to Turnberry is a special one to watch.

.....and no, I have not been done:lol:

 

[williamalex1]

A word of warning to those using the Ayrshire trunk road.
New short distance ASC's have now been placed at the Entry/Exits of all the villages on this route.
They are through the 20,30 and 40 mph zones.
Coming down the hill to Turnberry is a special one to watch.

.....and no, I have not been done:lol:

Good to know Doon :thup: we've been promised a few invites from down that area

 

[GreiginFife]

Its the ones that go racing between the gates and slow down for the cameras that crack me up. Almost like they don't get how it all works...

Loads getting done on the M90 at the Forth Bridge just now with the enforced 40mph limit from Rosyth to Echline.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

These days if I enter an average speed zone I just stick the speed limiter to that limit and so can just forget about speed I'm doing.

 

[SocketRocket]

These days if I enter an average speed zone I just stick the speed limiter to that limit and so can just forget about speed I'm doing.

So do I but I am amazed at the number of cars and trucks that go past me.

 

[williamalex1]

So do I but I am amazed at the number of cars and trucks that go past me.

Dirty unreadable front number plates

 

[bigslice]

Ive heard that the ones already there arent n havent ever worked, ive also heard the ones on the m8 a8 are the same, will have to wait a few weeks to find out about the second one

 

[Blue in Munich]

Camera enforcement in a 20mph speed limit; wonder when that guidance changed?

 

[JohnnyDee]

I don't speed anywhere (not even in my new Superb BiM :mmm my job depends on my licence and I see no need for speeding anyway. I'm a fully paid up member of the blue anorak and flat cap club.

I find driving these days so stressful because of the cretins sitting on my boot lid mouthing obscenities at me for sticking to the limits in built-up areas and on the open road too.

I spend so much time looking at my speedo and trying to spot cameras that it's just become a joke. My attention from watching the road is diverted so much and I believe that quite a lot of this stuff is revenue-gathering placed behind a smokescreen of safety. I wouldn't dream of taking a motor into London as there must be more cameras (of all types) there than Hollywood and Pinewood put together.

You never see a camera or a van when some wazzock screams past you at 55 in a 30 zone but I know so many who get done for 34 etc by a van or a radar gun.

 

[GreiginFife]

Camera enforcement in a 20mph speed limit; wonder when that guidance changed?

I think it's part of a Police Scotland safety initiative. I know they have been out in force around my local town in the fringe 20mph zones. A nonsense in my book considering the speed bumps and islands in place already in those areas.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

So do I but I am amazed at the number of cars and trucks that go past me.

Similarly amazed - and why they bother, feel the need ior happily take the risk of being fined - I just don't get.

 

[Blue in Munich]

I think it's part of a Police Scotland safety initiative. I know they have been out in force around my local town in the fringe 20mph zones. A nonsense in my book considering the speed bumps and islands in place already in those areas.

Exactly, if it is a 20mph speed limit then the traffic should already be doing that speed or there should be physical measures in place to achieve that speed, there shouldn't be a need for police enforcement.

 

[MegaSteve]

Exactly, if it is a 20mph speed limit then the traffic should already be doing that speed or there should be physical measures in place to achieve that speed, there shouldn't be a need for police enforcement.

Some of the physical measures put into place are pretty ineffective... Rather the authorities concentrated on policing urban areas effectively rather than spend time/energy on money gathering exercises on arterial routes...

 

[Blue in Munich]

Some of the physical measures put into place are pretty ineffective...

The engineering measures exist. Unfortunately the same politicians who pander to the (perceived?) need for 20mph limits don't have the necessary cojones to implement the measures that would result in its effective enforcement, hence we end up with the dog's dinner that you refer to.

Rather the authorities concentrated on policing urban areas effectively rather than spend time/energy on money gathering exercises on arterial routes...

I don't have an argument with that in principle, but would say that there is still a need for some enforcement on arterial routes to take out the worst offenders.

 

[MegaSteve]

The engineering measures exist. Unfortunately the same politicians who pander to the (perceived?) need for 20mph limits don't have the necessary cojones to implement the measures that would result in its effective enforcement, hence we end up with the dog's dinner that you refer to.

Yes...

... but would say that there is still a need for some enforcement on arterial routes to take out the worst offenders.

And, yes...

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Exactly, if it is a 20mph speed limit then the traffic should already be doing that speed or there should be physical measures in place to achieve that speed, there shouldn't be a need for police enforcement.

The 20mph area on the A77 is through the high street of an historic town.
In some places the pavements are 3 foot wide and there is just enough room for two lorries to pass.
A by pass has been promised for 25 years.

 

[SocketRocket]

The 20mph area on the A77 is through the high street of an historic town.
In some places the pavements are 3 foot wide and there is just enough room for two lorries to pass.
A by pass has been promised for 25 years.

So much for that listening Government in Scotland :rofl:

 

[Doon frae Troon]

So much for that listening Government in Scotland :rofl:

Sorry to prick your little moment of triumph but...............you seem to have conveniently forgotten for nearly half of that time there was no Scottish government.