speed camera 3340@30

topbanana4 · Lifetime Member Joined: Dec 11, 2005 Posts: 59

This camera is noted as a truvelo ( forward facing ) but over the past month ,this camera has been changed around ,so now its a Gatso (rear facing) then the next week its back to forward facing ,just thought people on here should know.

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:28 pm Post subject:

Thanks!
That sounds technical enough to warrant moving it to the "database" section of the forum where it might get seen by more people Smile

Not sure if it's worth changing anything in the master database yet, but keep us informed of any developments.

Daggers · Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:03 pm Post subject:

It's misleading to say that Truvelos are forward-facing cameras. You can actually be caught by these cameras travelling either from the front or from the back. (I know - it's happened to me!).

I know that the phrase is used to distinguish them from Gatsos, which are only rear-facing, but it could confuse people to say that Truvelos are forward-facing.
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M8TJT · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:35 am Post subject:

The main thing is, which way do you have to be travelling in to get 'caught'? Sad

The fact that it may be forward or rear facing is irrelevant, especially when on a dual carriageway as it cannot really be 'reversible' in this case. The warning distance on a satnav should be sufficient so which way the cam is facing is of little consequence.
But thanks for the heads up on this anyway. Keep reporting cam changes Very Happy

DennisN · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:23 pm Post subject:

Please humour a confused Tired Old Man...

There are two cameras in close proximity on the database there - 3340 is classified as a Gatso, handling traffic travelling westbound. A very little further on is another, 2770, also classified as Gatso, covering traffic travelling Eastbound. Are both cameras there?

Neither of them are classed (in the database) as Truvelo, so what are you seeing? Have they been changed from Gatso to the newer digital ones? Truvelos are rather easily identified as they have a fairly large (sort of pink/red/purple) illuminator.

Is this one (3340) being turned round at times, or are you by any chance seeing the "other" one? Or have those two cameras been replaced by a single reversible one in the centre of the dual carriageway?
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:45 pm Post subject:

topbanana4 · Lifetime Member Joined: Dec 11, 2005 Posts: 59

The camera says GATSO and it's not a dual carrigeway just a single one.It has lines on the road both sides of the camera .This was a forward facing camera and noted as a truvelo in the database.

M8TJT · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:52 pm Post subject:

Topbanana, I think that you have possibly got the wrong camera number. 3340 is a 40MPH camera on the A5036 (Princess Way) westbound in Liverpool. Unless they have done a lot of road alterations since the map was updated and the aerial photo taken, it's deffo a dual carriageway Confused

But it would be good to get this one sorted out Very Happy

DennisN · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:56 pm Post subject:

M8TJT · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:58 pm Post subject:

topbanana4 · Lifetime Member Joined: Dec 11, 2005 Posts: 59

sorry it is TRUVELO:3344@30 in leicester welford rd,

DennisN · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:06 pm Post subject:

From the overhead view, that seems to be a one way road, so whether Gatso or Truvelo is something of a "technicality", as the trapping heading is the same for either type and the difference between the trapping distances is just a few yards from the point of view of warnings. Last time we checked it, it was a Truvelo, but I've no idea how long ago that would have been. Maybe the owners swapped it for a spare Gatso if it became "unserviceable"? On the site map, I'll swear the overhead hybrid view (which will be some years old) actually shows the camera's shadow on the right hand side of direction of travel, same as with the shadow of Gatso:2953 about 100yards south on Aylestone Road.

I perhaps should add that I think we could happily dump the classifications in favour of "fixed camera" and "heading" - there are several different makes of camera these days and if we are to be pedantic about them all, we'll spend a lot of time doing that instead of getting the locations checked. Just my own view - maybe I'll drop it in the suggestion box and win a holiday to Cleethorpes. Very Happy

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