Digital speed cameras M25 gone live

[gaz2uk]

I can't believe how helpful and quick i'm getting these replies on everything I have asked!

I must say though, I can't actually see the cam on the gantries you posted? where about on it?

Lmao if I can't notice it there I would never notice it driving!!

[DennisN]

Well, come on DemonPhotographerSpeedTypistPaul!!

Put him a ring round the boxes and shining things
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[DennisN]

Hah! hopeless!!

It's the box thing behind the big flat screen sign thing - look closely and you'll see it looks a bit like the roadside cameras, bit of a window and stuff. Theres a shining thing associated with it (round pointing thing above and to the side like a short fat telescope). Sorry about the technical terms, can't do it in layman's language I'm afraid.
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[PaulB2005]

I've ringed them here

[GPS_fan]

[DennisN]

I have no evidence to support it, but logic says you're right and there are NO Specs (average speed) cameras in any variable speed limit area. The Specs I mentioned are on the northern part of the M25, where there isn't a variable speed area, just a long distance covered by average speed cameras. Seemingly a new innovation and far more useful than mobile cameras, or indeed, fixed ones like Gatsos, both of which only get you for speeding where the camera is (so you chuck the anchor out in front of the camera, then hair off as soon as it's gone from your rear view mirror). Specs force you to keep your speed down over a long distance. All other Specs are stuck into roadworks with fixed speed limits for the entire length of roadworks.

Sorry, it's not one of those rare occasions when you're wrong.
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[Andy_Summ]

Is that photo a picture of the actual M25 camera gantries now??

The M25 always had smaller all encompassing camera units, i.e. camera, radar and flash in one unit hidden away at the top of solid gantries. The photo shows a truss like gantry exactly the same as the ones on the M42 where the camera and radar are one unit and the flash is the separate smaller unit (for some reason) above with circular lens.

Andy.

[DennisN]

Uhoh! That's torn it! I think DemonPhotographerSpeedTypistPaul was testing us here.
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[Andy_P]

[GerryC]

[DennisN]

[PaulB2005]

[DUDELOVE03]

there is some of these on the m20 from jct 7 till 5 but no signs saying that there is any speed camaras

[DennisN]

[perussell]

So, what I am reading into all of the above is that the variable speed cameras on the M25 SW section are always activated????

I have heard it said that they are only active when the reduced speed signs are switched on i.e. they would typically be off when the limit is 70 but the minute the signs come on with say 60 or 50 or whatever they activate.

True or False....................

There must also be some kind of delay on these things, a few years back I approached a camera doing a 'highish' speed only to see the sign illuminate with 50 when I was within 100 yds of it. By the time I had registered the fact it was too late to slow down to 50 and I probably passed under it doing the high 60s - never got a NIP though

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