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irishkiwi
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 Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:48 pm Post subject: WARNING: M4 Specs Cameras Westbound between j14/j15 |
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There is an average speed camera zone on the m4 near swindon.
In the 7.014 database the specs cameras are marked at 50mph, but i was there yesterday (Jan 31st 2009) and they are actually all 40mph.
If these have not been updated - they need to be.
This refers to westbound only. Not sure about eastbound.
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rockin_plumber
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I assume you have reported this change in the relevent form on the database submissions form  |
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MaFt
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:14 pm Post subject: Re: WARNING: M4 Specs Cameras Westbound between j14/j15 |
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| irishkiwi wrote: | There is an average speed camera zone on the m4 near swindon.
In the 7.014 database the specs cameras are marked at 50mph, but i was there yesterday (Jan 31st 2009) and they are actually all 40mph.
If these have not been updated - they need to be.
This refers to westbound only. Not sure about eastbound.
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we've had a couple of submissions stating this - the more the merrier to assist with confirmation!!
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DennisN
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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What a pain, it's hardly more than a week since I drove the route and verified them at 50mph!! 
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253
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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I've done submissions for the Westbound after I went through on Friday.
Come back the other way today and it is the same for the eastbound.
It is 40mph both ways for sure.
I have not done submissions for the eastbound because I'm sure someone will have beaten me to it.
Also as an aside, Reading both ways there si a 50mph in, and narrow lanes, but no sign of any cameras. - both West and East, Goes for quite a distance, but if memory serves me, this has been there for a few weeks now.
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DennisN
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| 253 wrote: | | I have not done submissions for the eastbound because I'm sure someone will have beaten me to it. |
You don't suppose everybody else has said to themselves they won't submit because you're bound to have already?  I can't guarantee it, but I wouldn't be surprised if our DB administrator accepted the change without waiting for me or another verifier if he received several submissions - I think he has been known to accept temporary roadworks cameras after a bunch of identical submissions.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| i live in swindon, the average speed cameras there are definitely 50 or im going to get a lot of fines. There are 40 average cameras futher down towards london, not between junction 15/16. |
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253
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | | 253 wrote: | | I have not done submissions for the eastbound because I'm sure someone will have beaten me to it. |
You don't suppose everybody else has said to themselves they won't submit because you're bound to have already? I can't guarantee it, but I wouldn't be surprised if our DB administrator accepted the change without waiting for me or another verifier if he received several submissions - I think he has been known to accept temporary roadworks cameras after a bunch of identical submissions. |
I was thinking of that after I posted, so I did a sneaky and did the eastbound as well. 
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:44 am Post subject: |
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| Brownie1990 wrote: | | i live in swindon, the average speed cameras there are definitely 50 or im going to get a lot of fines. There are 40 average cameras futher down towards london, not between junction 15/16. |
Just to help out Dennis, or anyone who happens to be passing, when did you last check the speed limit for these cameras? Can you give the camera ids?
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253
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:51 am Post subject: |
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I just had a look at the camera submit page, the Specs in question are now showing the 40mph limit. So I suspect the correct speed will be shown in the update this week.
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MaFt
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| 253 wrote: | | I just had a look at the camera submit page, the Specs in question are now showing the 40mph limit. So I suspect the correct speed will be shown in the update this week. |
well, i was actually planning on going back in and reverting them to 70 just to wind you lot up  
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DennisN
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:28 am Post subject: |
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| JockTamsonsBairn wrote: | | Brownie1990 wrote: | | i live in swindon, the average speed cameras there are definitely 50 or im going to get a lot of fines. There are 40 average cameras futher down towards london, not between junction 15/16. |
Just to help out Dennis, or anyone who happens to be passing, when did you last check the speed limit for these cameras? Can you give the camera ids? |
Friday 23rd January - I accepted one at J16@50mph (65315) and rejected 3 between J15 and J14 (65327, 65453 and 65455). It was mostly a confirmation run through, "all" other cameras having been verified already and still correct and active in the two separate sections. The J15 to 14 ones were 50mph when I went through - I'd have noticed, cos' 40mph is unusual.
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By the way, for anybody who may be tempted to think verifying is straightforward, at the same time as we got early reports these had changed from 50 to 40mph, we ALSO started getting requests to remove the westbound ones because they were no longer in use!! (This is not intended to start a discussion on whether or not they are there, simply to point out that we do get "different" submissions).
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:02 am Post subject: |
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| MaFt wrote: | | 253 wrote: | | I just had a look at the camera submit page, the Specs in question are now showing the 40mph limit. So I suspect the correct speed will be shown in the update this week. |
well, i was actually planning on going back in and reverting them to 70 just to wind you lot up
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Don't you dare!!
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Brownie1990 wrote: | | i live in swindon, the average speed cameras there are definitely 50 or im going to get a lot of fines. There are 40 average cameras futher down towards london, not between junction 15/16. |
.......which is why my original post says "between junction 14 and 15".......... |
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