Speed Limit sign

[Robster59]

Given that they have apparently put up a lot of the text "reminder" signs, I'm not sure that the "fill the accounts" bit is really a true consideration.?

I would imagine the reason they have put the 30mph limit in is because they have made the cycle lane much more high profile with partitioning to the cycle lane, it makes the road effectively narrower.
Actually, in the first few days since the posts went up, we've seen a few of them already knocked out.

 

[Robster59]

Newer cars have road sign recognition where a camera will display what it sees on the dashboard.
Very handy for speed cameras and the like
???

But that would probably not work on the sign I posted.

 

[GreiginFife]

Newer cars have road sign recognition where a camera will display what it sees on the dashboard.
Very handy for speed cameras and the like
???

Mine also uses mapped data as it will recognise many limit changes around here where the initial limit change sign is either in an overgrown hedge or been nicked.

It really does struggle with the digital flashy type ones like at schools and regularly "reads" the flashing digital 20 as 70 ?

 

[Smiffy]

But that would probably not work on the sign I posted.

It would
?

 

[SocketRocket]

Mine also uses mapped data as it will recognise many limit changes around here where the initial limit change sign is either in an overgrown hedge or been nicked.

It really does struggle with the digital flashy type ones like at schools and regularly "reads" the flashing digital 20 as 70 ?

Mine works quite well and if the signs not clear it displays a blank one. Not perfect but when I use it along with setting the speed limiter it is a good aid to prevent speeding.

 

[Robster59]

It would
?

That's not your missus sitting next to you is it?

 

[GreiginFife]

But that would probably not work on the sign I posted.

You need a Horrace Worblehat to get that to work...

 

[Ross61]

Newer cars have road sign recognition where a camera will display what it sees on the dashboard.
Very handy for speed cameras and the like
???

When I use adaptive cruise control on mine on a dual carriageway that has some 60mph sections, after the 60 finishes and there is a 70 sign my car brakes and slows down to 70 km ph. Absolutely rubbish.

 

[toyboy54]

Just to confuse the good folks coming up from Crookfur…?

Take it that that would then rule out the Riff Raff from Barrhead ??

 

[GreiginFife]

When I use adaptive cruise control on mine on a dual carriageway that has some 60mph sections, after the 60 finishes and there is a 70 sign my car brakes and slows down to 70 km ph. Absolutely rubbish.

On mine (iDrive 7.0) I had to change the internal system setting from KPH and also odd ones in sport mode like KW back to HP and KPa back to PSI.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Take it that that would then rule out the Riff Raff from Barrhead ??

The traffic lights and lanes at the Cross are set up to confuse the good folks of Barrhead.

 

[Billysboots]

To answer the OP, at the point where the limit changes from a 40 to a 30 there will be a conventional 30mph speed limit sign posted. There is then no requirement for regular repeater signs, such as those you would find in an area with a posted limit of 40mph.

By adding the written signs as depicted in the image in the OP, the local authority have actually exceeded what is required of them. They have, in effect, posted a form of repeater sign when not actually obliged to do so.

 

[backwoodsman]

Newer cars have road sign recognition where a camera will display what it sees on the dashboard.
Very handy for speed cameras and the like
???

That's fine - after all, it's only showing whats actually there. Which is different to, say, to the system in my car which is reliant on a database - which may or may not be out of date - or even just incorrect perhaps.

 

[jim8flog]

From our local news report about a similar road - there is a shortage of speed limit signs at the moment.

 

[PJ87]

Newer cars have road sign recognition where a camera will display what it sees on the dashboard.
Very handy for speed cameras and the like
???

Not when you set to speed limit by sign then it reads the side road (30) speed when your on a 50mph road lol

 

[jim8flog]

Finally, if there are street lights, then the speed is by default 30mph and no signs are required, as Greg and Nick have said.

A seconder to this.

The initial 30 MPH speed sign could be streets away and if there is no sign changing this then that is the speed limit.

 

[backwoodsman]

To answer the OP, at the point where the limit changes from a 40 to a 30 there will be a conventional 30mph speed limit sign posted. There is then no requirement for regular repeater signs, such as those you would find in an area with a posted limit of 40mph.

By adding the written signs as depicted in the image in the OP, the local authority have actually exceeded what is required of them. They have, in effect, posted a form of repeater sign when not actually obliged to do so.

Precisely . Its because they posted the text signs when they didn't need to, that I suggested "making money" wasn't likely to be a factor in things.

 

[toyboy54]

The traffic lights and lanes at the Cross are set up to confuse the good folks of Barrhead.

Easily done Now just need to wait until end of month ( to recover from TIA ) before getting confused on the way up to the range

 

[Tashyboy]

To answer the OP, at the point where the limit changes from a 40 to a 30 there will be a conventional 30mph speed limit sign posted. There is then no requirement for regular repeater signs, such as those you would find in an area with a posted limit of 40mph.

By adding the written signs as depicted in the image in the OP, the local authority have actually exceeded what is required of them. They have, in effect, posted a form of repeater sign when not actually obliged to do so.

A pal of mine who happens to have a tash ? went on a speed awareness course recently . He was informed that the technical term for these signs are called “ Gateway signs”. In essence your going from one speed limit to another and it is informing you of said speed limit change.

 

[Tashyboy]

Precisely . Its because they posted the text signs when they didn't need to, that I suggested "making money" wasn't likely to be a factor in things.

I read a piece a couple of days ago. It was about the tolerances that different police forces have when considering drivers who have been clocked as speeding. The difference in “ accepted “ tolerances was truly head scratching.