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We need your help - FIVE One Year subscriptions on offer
 In a few weeks time we will begin running a PR campaign designed to raise our profile in the wider media.
We want your help in identifying the daftest speed cameras locations in Britain. Do you pass a speed camera that is located where traffic is always congested?
Perhaps a speed camera van which causes a bigger hazard when parked than the danger it is there to prevent?
Or maybe even a camera sited where maximum revenue can be raised rather than maximum safety?
Post your suggestions in the thread linked below, if you can provide pictures of the camera, all the better.
If we use your suggestion in our PR campaign we'll give you a year's free subscription, if you are a Lifer already then we'll find something else of equal value to give you.
With nearly 300,000 of you I'm sure we can find 5 of the best/worst!
Get your thinking caps on and lets see what ya got.
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 Posted by Darren on Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:42 pm |
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It would help enormously if you could post the Lat/Lon of the camera or the Camera ID number used in our database.
This can be found by locating the camera via our submission map here, click the camera icon with your mouse and the ID will appear at top left of the map frame e.e. GATSO:12345@50.
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| Posted by SHC on Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:38 pm |
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MOBILE:17140@40
This camera is a money generator, it's the one Hull City's chairman was recently caught at. It's at the bottom of a long sweeping downhill dual carriage-way flyover, with a slip road at the bottom coming in from your left. The van is parked up just around the bend 200 yards before the road become 70mph from 40mph.
If you ran a competion to design a road for the perfect speed trap, you could not do better than this. This road has had several accidents - on the other side going east!
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| Posted by dougproctor on Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:04 pm |
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Camera 13898@30. Road is always congested as traffic leaves Fareham on the A32 to Gosport. You are lucky to get above 25 at most times of the day!!
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| Posted by zebsogo on Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:31 pm |
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Telford way on the north circular road A406. Honestly i despair the traffic crawls along day in day out every day and there must be 2 or 3 cameras
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| Posted by adamf on Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:11 pm |
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what about the most hidden gatso??
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| Posted by EvilTwin on Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:38 pm |
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Easy, its the M25 anywhere they've got cones out.
What was it I win again? 
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| Posted by Darren on Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:31 am |
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| adamf Wrote: | | what about the most hidden gatso?? |
We'd like to hear about them too.
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| Posted by cliveports on Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:46 am |
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This has got to be THE dumbest position for a camera, take a look at the PocketGPS map location and you'll see it positioned at the START of a motorway! So everyone on the dual carriageway (leading into the M275) starts hitting the brakes when they see it, causing all sorts of 'domino effect' problems instead of, what should be, starting a nice smooth SAFE acceleration for Motorway speed!
Portsmouth folk were dumbfounded when this was installed.
And they jokingly call this a "Safety Camera"...HA!
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| Posted by PaulB2005 on Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:58 am |
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TRUVELO:5535@40
Which lanes does it cover? The 2 one the left with the pedestrian crossing a little further up or the 2 on the right that lead to the M275?
| Quote: | | instead of, what should be, starting a nice smooth SAFE acceleration for Motorway speed! |
At what point does the speed limit change? If the map is accurate then no-one should be accelerating until after the Monitron anyway. I know it's usually "accepted" for people to start accelerating when they see a higher speed limit sign in the distance but legally the speed limit is enforceable right up up to the speed limit sign.
I suspect this camera is positioned to "watch" the non-motorway traffic, esp as there is a bus stop and pedestrian crossing ahead.
Also traffic heading onto the M275 can only accelerate from 40 to 50 mph and not Motorway speed.
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| Posted by Rodanjay on Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:26 am |
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The mobile camera on the North side of the A466, opposite Tintern Abbey, is there purely as a money box. I perceive little danger but it is very easy to exceed the 30mph limit when approaching this camera. If there really was a danger to the public then the local authority would do what they have done on the next village to the North - lots of warning of the 30mph zone ahead
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