mobile speed traps
 

Thought some of you guys might be interested in knowing where the weekly mobile speed traps in lancs are going to be. you never know it may save you a few
quid!

w/c 12-10-03
sunday
Belmont village
A59 Gisburn rd Gisburn
Burnley rd Crawshawbooth

monday
Manchester rd Accy
Hyndburn rd Accy
st Marys Way Rawtenstall

Tuesday
Branch rd Lower Darwen
Elton rd Belthorn
Haslingden Old rd Haslingden

Wednesday
Pole Lane Darwen
Bolton rd Blackburn
Manchester rd Haslingden

Thursday
Simonstone Lane Simonstone
Blackburn Old rd Great Harwood
New lane Bacup

Friday
A682 Gisburn rd Gisburn
Belmont Village
Burnley rd Bacup

Saturday
Blacksnape rd Blacksnape
A59 Gisburn rd Gisburn
Bolton rd North Edenfield

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cheers for that wingy,i have printed it out and will use it next week when i am driving all day doing local deliveries for the timber yard i work for.
.....are you going to do it every weekend for us all??

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will do whenever im home, might even do a list of static cameras too if i have time.  i dont think speeding is clever (although i enjoy it) but when the cameras are in stupid places and purely for revinue i think it stinks. hope it heps people out

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agreed  ;D

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Well I was caught out whilst at work on Hyndburn Road recently.  Funny though, as I saw it coming the other way beforehand and forgot on my way back!  :o

That was in a good place though, next to schools and residential areas.  Don't know why they choose some of the other places!

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Spotted another speed camera, they are setting one up on whalley road just outside the Balti Stan.  As you are going down into clayton, thats what side it is on.

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Good

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It's not good!  >:( I do not speed on public roads, but when the person infront of me is, and they brake suddenly to avoid being snapped, they cause major accidents sometimes.  especially when their brake lights are not working!  I agree with the speed cameras to a point.  Some are in the most rediculous places.

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If the person in front of you brakes because of a speed camera.. that is not the speed cameras fault. A speed camera can not be blamed for accidents. Only the drivers who act differently around them.

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I agree fully.  I do not mind speed cameras, i agree with them.  most are in areas where they are definitly needed, but like you say, drivers are the problem, so something needs doing about careless driving - speed cameras only slow them down for a few seconds and then they are off again.

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So this is where the second hidden, or mobile camera comes in.....let them think they've got away with it ....then..PING!...smile, you're on Candid Camera...and here's a fifty quid fine. Have a Nice Day!!!! ;D ;D ;D

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Good idea!  :D

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[quote author=Tealeaf link=board=motors;num=1066074673;start=0#10 date=10/15/03 at 11:59:26]So this is where the second hidden, or mobile camera comes in.....let them think they've got away with it ....then..PING!...smile, you're on Candid Camera...and here's a fifty quid fine. Have a Nice Day!!!! ;D ;D ;D[/quote]

Its not £50 though is it its £60 and 3 penalty points, which your insurane co counts for 5 years. I think thats way overboard. The speedo in your car is calibrated to 10%, so if your calibration is out you may think you are 2mph over and still get done. Every driver speeds nobody can say they never have, if your in the wrong place at the wrong time you pay for it for 5 years.

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In that case, go at 10% under.....easy when you know how

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A new camera has gone up on Burnley road also, just past cookes petrol station on right hand side if your driving up burnley road

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Mind you, it helps if you drive on the left.....

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the police are told to prosecute at....

30 mph zone - over 33mph
40 mph zone - 43 mph
50 mph zone - 53 mph
60 mph zone - 63 mph
70 mph zone - 75 mph............but not everyone does under 75mph on the motorway so why dont they just up the speed limit to 80mph,the only people that do over 100mph are bmw & mercedes drivers and boy racers,and they should be banned indefinately.

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I can't understand why they put a new camera on Whalley road have you tried going up to the motorway at 8:00 / 9:00 in a morning you hardly get above 20mph and its situated just where all the cars turn to go up to school thus slowing the traffic down in the direction of Whalley ..... So i can't see it being cos effective. Not like the one in Gt Harwood which is said to have created approx 4 million in fines in its first year (heard that on the news so its prob wrong)

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I also spotted they have put one up on Hyndburn road as if you where going to the asda from the motorway side.  It is where the park is  :-/ , so all them times they set up that mobile one, i think it was to see if they could put one up.  I wouldn't mind about them as much as i do if some of the money went to useful things (like charity) not just to meet their budgets.  >:(