GATSO back on the A370

[yertis]

The camera has returned, just as you enter Flax on the A370. Looks as though someone has had a pop at it, and it's only been there less than 24 hours.

[A57 HSV]

Thought they had given up on replacing that one!
BTW, the GATSO in Saltford (A4) has been replaced.
Still think of all the lives that will be saved....

[dazren]

On a related note, the scamerati have had one of their mobile units appearing here from time to time. Zapping cars about 150 yards before where the fixed gatso would have previously checked speeds.

Edited by dazren on Monday 8th January 16:24

[Yertis]

It's currently monitoring the speed of the pub roof

[Moose.]

Excellent

[dazren]

[A57 HSV]

Out of interest, is the Flax camera site a genuine accident blackspot? Just wondering as all the cameras there seem to be damaged/destroyed almost instantly. Are the Scamerati just very thick skinned, or do local residents hassle them to replace it? I suspect the former.

[Yertis]

I don't know whether or not it is a blackspot, but it has the potential to be, because

[NIMBY MODE]



Because you hit the village right at the end of the Long Ashton bypass, there's the tendency to arrive going "a bit fast"

and it has some quite twisty curves as you go through the village, with short sightlines.

Side roads join the A370 on those curves.

Children (specifically, mine) need to use the main road.

Some people (Laxxers and bikers, mainly, sorry bikers) do use it as some kind of chicane-challenge, it seems)

We've had a couple of crashes at the western end of the village in the last nine months or so.

[/NIMBY MODE]

That said I don't think either Scameras or GATSO are the answer, because in the case of the former the road is usually too congested to speed at the times they operate. And in the case of the latter for all the usual reasons, plus people acccelerate like bats once they're past it.. My preferred enforcement would be the signs that flash up your speed at each end, occasionally supported by a SPECS type system that monitored speed right through the village.

Did I really say that?

[tuttle]

The scamera on the A37 (Temple cloud) went up in a puff of smoke over xmas, what's left has been removed, no replacement as yet.

Potential diesel hazard (tue 9/1/7)

A37 Red hill, leaving Clutton towards Chelwood r/bout. Significant diesel spill from the 'bad corner' at top of the hill. With the rain etc some of this has carried approx 1/2 way down the hill. Very brown-trousers type!

Edited by tuttle on Tuesday 9th January 19:05

[remal]

tuttle said:

The scamera on the A37 (Temple cloud) went up in a puff of smoke over xmas, what's left has been removed, no replacement as yet.

Potential diesel hazard (tue 9/1/7)

A37 Red hill, leaving Clutton towards Chelwood r/bout. Significant diesel spill from the 'bad corner' at top of the hill. With the rain etc some of this has carried approx 1/2 way down the hill. Very brown-trousers type!

Edited by tuttle on Tuesday 9th January 19:05

TA for that. now I'm using my bike everyday Me thinks I should stay away until cleared

[yertis]

The Flax camera is now fixed. As in "working", not as in "dealt with".

[barry ashcroft]

Went passed the flax camera today about 3pm and there was a scamera sh1t head also in the layby and I think he may of got me
My origin never made a sound so maybe he was not switched on finger crossed

[A57 HSV]

I thought that maybe p***heads were staggering out of the pub opposite the Flax camera & being mown down by cars (actually if your read the press, it would be 4X4's not cars).
I agree with Yertis about the flashing signs. Fixed cameras wind drivers up so much that many speed up on purpose after passing them.
The flashing sign on Coronation Road is a bit annoying though as it starts flashing from about 26mph+.

[GlenMH]

A57 HSV said:

The flashing sign on Coronation Road is a bit annoying though as it starts flashing from about 26mph+.

Try the one on Ashley Hill - it measures the speed of cars going away from it!!

[Yertis]

The Flax-cam was burned out again over the weekend.

[A57 HSV]

I wonder when the local Scamera Pratnership will learn. I suppose they don't really care, not their money that is going up in smoke. Justified under the wafer thin veneer of safety.

[Yertis]

They've taken the charred remains away now. I don't know why they bother. Like a lamb to the slaughter.