Bath Bypass camera

[cml]

I heard it had been burnt recently - is it operational again?

[GlenMH]

It was certainly there last week....

Glen

[cml]

I've seen it too, I wondered if was working. Bloddy silly place for a camera. Seen one rear ender just in front of it as somebody braked for it. Brilliant safetly camera work there.

[dazren]

The lower one, on the clear straight going eastbound to the roundabout, was burnt out a few weeks ago.

[Andyr86]

its still down. Drove past it this morning.

[JamesZS]

Bloody silly place for a camera anyway... although it did inadvertantly get used to my advantage once... when i got tailgated all the way along London Road out of Bath and made sure I stayed in front of the twunt all the way until the scamera... cue braking... flash flash, tailgater who decided to overtake at the wrong moment was 3 and 60 worse off.

How many cameras have they had there now? 3 or 4?

[ewenm]

JamesZS said:

Bloody silly place for a camera anyway... although it did inadvertantly get used to my advantage once... when i got tailgated all the way along London Road out of Bath and made sure I stayed in front of the twunt all the way until the scamera... cue braking... flash flash, tailgater who decided to overtake at the wrong moment was 3 and 60 worse off.

How many cameras have they had there now? 3 or 4?

Apparently the 50 limit was one of the conditins of being allowed to build the bypass in the first place. I guess the pressure to have a camera there actually enforcing it comes from the same source. IMO (if they MUST have a camera at all) one on the other carriageway would be more use as traffic going into Bath often tails back onto the bypass so you really don't want people hammering along into the back of the queue - I've seen a few near misses there.

[ge0rge]

I never understood the 50mph speed limit on that road - makes no sense whatsoever. Its a dual carriageway with a barrier in the middle. Should be a 70 imo !

[LordGrover]

There are several stretches of the ring road that have recently been reduced to 50 - s.

[Andyr86]

ge0rge said:

I never understood the 50mph speed limit on that road - makes no sense whatsoever. Its a dual carriageway with a barrier in the middle. Should be a 70 imo !

Its because of the "dangerous" corner that can easily be done at 80 roughly between the two speed cameras.

[JamesZS]

Can anybody explain the necessity to keep it at 50 in the direction towards the motorway, between the Bath turning and the location of the second Scamera on the top of the hill? It just seems a bit... boring.

[ewenm]

JamesZS said:

Can anybody explain the necessity to keep it at 50 in the direction towards the motorway, between the Bath turning and the location of the second Scamera on the top of the hill? It just seems a bit... boring.

I was told it was stipulated on the planning permission for the bypass when it was built, so the whole of the dual carriageway section had to be a 50mph limit. No idea if that's correct.

[JamesZS]

ewenm said:

JamesZS said:

Can anybody explain the necessity to keep it at 50 in the direction towards the motorway, between the Bath turning and the location of the second Scamera on the top of the hill? It just seems a bit... boring.

I was told it was stipulated on the planning permission for the bypass when it was built, so the whole of the dual carriageway section had to be a 50mph limit. No idea if that's correct.

That's a bit over-cautious of them IMHO. Once you're past the Bath Junction, heading towards the M4, there's no real need to keep it at 50, it just becomes easy pickings for the scamera van that tucks up round the corner. Mind you, people coming the other way are generally quite helpful in warning you

[Scamper]

[quote] it just becomes easy pickings for the scamera van that tucks up round the corner. Mind you, people coming the other way are generally quite helpful in warning you
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wish someone had flashed me last month......

[Andyr86]

its back up now

[dazren]

Cheer up, I'm sure lightening will strike again.