Fake Gatso sign put up by local Council

[sparkyonline]

Bucks County Council have put up a Speed Cameras sign and painted some Gatso style road markings on a recently opened section of the bridge on the A418 heading into Aylesbury, Bucks.

Who they are trying to kid, I don't know. This bit of road hasn't been open five minutes so it rather undermines the policy of putting cameras on accident blackspots. Also, there is obviously No Camera and no way one could possibly be erected!

They told me it was to 'enable' the Police to use mobile cameras in future...

[ATG]

What absolute bollocks. Since when did the police need any of that to use mobile cameras? Well done for making the effort to ask these prunes what they're up to.

[MikeyT]

There's some speed camera signs on the Oundle Road leading into Peterborough – locals know where very well – and no way is there a camera anywhere about. Mind you, at 5pm the speed is about 5mph for the whole lenbgth of the Ounjdle Road. Three or four miles away, a guy took a welding torch to one recently, now it bends at 90 degrees and photographs the ground – good for him

TVR owner one day

[thub]

The new A33 to the south of Reading has the Gatso road markings already - on a new road that's pretty straight, is dual carriageway both ways and has a central barrier, and a 40mph limit that is strangely ignored.

Obviously 'they' were planning ahead. Mind you, it didn't stop them forgetting to put in the pedestrian crossings until after the road was completed and open!

[JSG]

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The new A33 to the south of Reading has the Gatso road markings already - on a new road that's pretty straight, is dual carriageway both ways and has a central barrier, and a 40mph limit that is strangely ignored.

Obviously 'they' were planning ahead. Mind you, it didn't stop them forgetting to put in the pedestrian crossings until after the road was completed and open!

They do set up mobile traps along this stretch, plod hides in the bushes by the slip road to the refuse site (northbound). I know as I got done for 65mph last year.

A mate of mine saw a van with cameras on the southbound a few months ago.

[Nick M (nmilton)]

If I could just make the observation that white lines on the road are much cheaper than cameras, and maybe that explains why they've done what they have.

There have been numerous road-works on the A12 and M11 over the past couple of years but the white lines for the temporary Gatsos remain. They still act as a deterrent, especially to people who don't use the road that often, because you don't truly know if they have erected a hidden camera since the last time you drove through.