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MikeB
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 Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject: New SPECs Speed Cameras spring up on the A127 in Essex |
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 Last week I went away for a late summer holiday and returned home to find that a number of new SPECs average speed cameras had been erected in my absence close to my house. I had to spend the afternoon collecting the speed camera locations to make sure it made the PocketGPSWorld.com Speed Camera Database release later that day.
The A127 is just a few hundred yards from where I live and judging by the number of cameras on the stretch of road between the A130 and the intersection with Victoria Avenue you would have thought it was the most dangerous and accident prone road in the world. There are no less than 20 fixed cameras on the A127 in 7 miles.
These new SPECs Speed Cameras cover a section of the road from just before the A130 junction on the A127 up to the border of Southend where the existing Gatsos take over.
This stretch of the road is currently 70MPH but after everyone is used to the cameras they will be dropping the limit down to 50MPH. Strange that they didn't set the 50MPH Limit first and then install the cameras...
Click here to read the full article including the press release from the Essex Casualty Reduction Board and my personal views on the matter...
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Why oh why do 'council spokesmen' insist of giving distances in km. It is illegal to signpost in km so why do they insist on using km instead of miles(you know, a round 1760 yards, 8 furlongs and goodness knows how many chains). Our speedos are calibrated in mph and the odometer is usualy in miles, signposts have to be in miles/yards. They still talk about miles per hour (because it's the law), and our basic measurment is miles NOT km?????  |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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Why don't KeyMed sponsor a roundabout like anybody else? Will they be advertising themselves as sponsors of your local speed cameras? 
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Rick-uk
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| M8TJT wrote: | | ... why do they insist on using km instead of miles... |
Although when signs are being replaced approaching motorway junctions it is not uncommon for the new sign to be repositioned at two thirds and one third miles, which coincidentally is near enough one and half kilometres.
Metrification of our roads by backdoor means? |
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Flyboy0902
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: New A127 cameras |
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Just got back from Essex via the A127 and nearly crashed twice due to people not knowing exactly what speed they are in fact allowed travel at. The signs are all national speed limit, but people are coming up to the new cameras and lamping on the brakes just in case they are live at 50mph!!!  If someone doesn't get killed before the local authority formally drops the limit to 50mph I'll be amazed!! |
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DennisN
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Rick-uk wrote: | | M8TJT wrote: | | ... why do they insist on using km instead of miles... |
Although when signs are being replaced approaching motorway junctions it is not uncommon for the new sign to be repositioned at two thirds and one third miles, which coincidentally is near enough one and half kilometres.
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Have you ever looked at those little posts at the side of the motorways? They have a number (e.g. 157.4) and a little telephone symbol pointing in the direction of the nearest emergency phone. They are and always have been at 100 metre intervals and indicate the distance in kilometres from wherever they measure from (start of motorway, say London, Birmingham, Liverpool, etc). They increment upwards one direction, downwards the opposite. The ONLY reason why miles were kept on the roads when metrification was forced on us old fogies, was that it was OK for us to have to sell or buy in metres, kilos and litres, buying new tape measures, weighing scales and measuring jugs, but metrification of roads would have meant the government funding millions of sign replacements. Cynical?
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Rick-uk
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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When I was learning to drive (way back when) I am sure that the highway code showed those posts as being 100 yards apart.
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Ounces - King Lear 'Give me 28.35 grams of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination'
Miles - Romeo and Juliet 'Villain and he may be many 1.6093 kilometres asunder'
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Tim Buxton
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| M8TJT wrote: | | (you know, a round 1760 yards, 8 furlongs and goodness knows how many chains). |
Eighty chains, squire.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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I also posted these specs earlier this week to the speed camera database.
The press article from the local paper can be found here
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/3944040.New_average_speed_cameras_go_up_on_A127/
Off to download the latest camera release so I capture these specs !
Cheers Mike for the write-up.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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Anyone know what this KeyMed Ltd. do?
Boycott anyone?  |
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KeyMed make boroscopes.
I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of the fatal and serious accidents were caused by "lads" on their way to Southend on a Friday and Saturday night for an unofficial "cruise". Why should they be operational the rest of the time?
Thank $deity I moved from Southend to Lancashire a couple of years ago. |
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MikeB
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Boycott anyone? |
Most definately no boycott. Not only do Keymed manufacture critical health care equipment but they also employ lots of local people and support a large number of charities and fundraising events for good causes.
http://www.keymed.co.uk/index.cfm
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MikeB
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| Jellyroll wrote: |
I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of the fatal and serious accidents were caused by "lads" on their way to Southend on a Friday and Saturday night for an unofficial "cruise". ago. |
Could also be the biker lads that meet at the Dick Turpin pub a little way towards London... Well actually it cant as the SPECs cameras ANPR detects number plates coming towards them and bikes dont have front number plates... So maybe that is why the DT Pub is not covered!!!
Am I being cynical again?
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| Andy_P wrote: | Anyone know what this KeyMed Ltd. do?
Boycott anyone? |
Keymed manufacture a wide range of Hospital appliances,anything from what they hang a "blood bag" from to a medical trolley........I use to work for one of thier sub-contracters we made they stuck thier label on and sold it.
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And you know what's ironical about that, is nearly twice as many people die from MRSA every year then on the roads of Britain!
Shame they can't seem fit to spend that sort of cash in that area!! |
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