SPECS Cameras

Hodge · Post by **Hodge** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 4:48 pm

Nottinghamshire is the hub of the Specs Averaging Camera population, I have no gripe with these but have recently noticed that new ones are now Rear Facing, ie reading the rear number plate. Anyone know of the technical reason for this apart from MotorCycle coverage

Cheers

Post by **neil** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 12:58 am

Have to admit they seemed to have been on a spending spree - i've notice several new cameras over the christmas break.

Not noticed rear facing ones - but did notice some different looking ones (which might be the ones you mean) - near Aspley ?

Hodge · Post by **Hodge** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 8:46 am

Try Lowdham to the A614, and the A614 to Rufford, new rear facing. Googling it seems to suggest its just to keep the Motorcycle fatalities down, so I'm assuming technology has moved forward or they would have been rear facing to start with.

Cheers

Peter&Janet · Post by **Peter&Janet** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 10:53 am

These cameras on the A614 backwards facing detectors were erected in Nov/Dec and working, a visit to the local over new year and seems plenty have already paid the Â£60 fines.

PerryGunn · Post by **PerryGunn** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 11:05 am

Hodge wrote:Googling it seems to suggest its just to keep the Motorcycle fatalities down

Or, more cynically, they didn't like the fact that motorcyclists weren't contributing to their revenue stream

Mark996 · Post by **Mark996** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 12:16 pm

It is indeed for the motorcycling folk to be 'part of it' (of which I'm one....)....

The ones in Aspley you speak of - if the new ones outside the school, then the two yellow ones are standard SPECS cams, but the smaller black ones are to do with the bus lane outside the school, which is why it's located at the end of the bus lane itself.....

If I had a pound for everyone who's ever said to me that speed cameras are put up/run by police wh make money from them, I'd be driving a D5 BT by now?!

PerryGunn · Post by **PerryGunn** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 1:09 pm

Mark996 wrote:If I had a pound for everyone who's ever said to me that speed cameras are put up/run by police wh make money from them, I'd be driving a D5 BT by now?!

I never said that the Police made money from them - as I understand it, the money goes to the treasury who then disburse it ?via the DoT?, but all the time they rake in more than they cost to run they will be seen as a source of revenue.

Mark996 · Post by **Mark996** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:09 pm

Oh absolutely, and my comment certainly wasn't a slur at you perry, just a generalism....

PerryGunn · Post by **PerryGunn** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:07 pm

Mark996 wrote:Oh absolutely, and my comment certainly wasn't a slur at you perry, just a generalism....

No problem, Mark, I was being a bit flippant with my comment and I just wanted to make sure it wasn't being taken the wrong way

PurplePork · Post by **PurplePork** » Sun Jan 13, 2013 8:59 pm

Hodge wrote:Try Lowdham to the A614, and the A614 to Rufford, new rear facing. Googling it seems to suggest its just to keep the Motorcycle fatalities down, so I'm assuming technology has moved forward or they would have been rear facing to start with.

Cheers

Whereabouts are these?

I'm about to enter a stint of driving from Lowdham/Burton Joyce island to Woodborough (Timmermans ).

Hodge · Post by **Hodge** » Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:05 pm

From memory I think they start after Timmermans so you should miss them

HTH

Hodge · Post by **Hodge** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 5:48 pm

Just correcting myself. They start a the beginning of the Epperstone Bypass, just after the Traffic Lights at Lowdham. But I'm sure you'll see them

HTH

PurplePork · Post by **PurplePork** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:32 pm

Thanks.
It'll be dark the first time I drive up there, and the 50 limit is easily exceeded on the DC...