A77 Average Speed Cameras
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Those Stagecoach X77 drivers drive like utter bellends, the amount of dodgy manoeuvres ive seen them pull all along the m77 heading towards Ayrshire, plus daft things like going all the way down the inside lane of the m77 which cuts off at junction 1 for Pollokshields/Mosspark then at the last minute cutting back onto what's became the inside lane, previously middle lane, after J1, sitting at the speed limit in the outside lane, when the inside is clear so nobody can get past etc. It would not surprise me them speeding through specs.
exitwound said:
Only the first two at Bogend Toll and the last two into Girvan (where the kids died that instigated the cameras in the first place)
Really? Are you 100% on this, or listening to a pal of mine in the pub. (Not sure if he was winding me up)Bloody things, right on my doorstep.
These cameras cost £80k per year each to administrate and maintain..
South Ayrshire thought they could use them as a way to "tax" the motorist, but the govt. now takes the fines generated instead (they don't want cameras to be seen as an obvious cash cow) and gives them back a "road safety grant", so SA only use them now as a visual deterrent and use the coppers with unmarked cars and vans instead to police the road. Very few people have ever been fined on the A77 by the specs cameras themselves.
Juan Hu Nose..
South Ayrshire thought they could use them as a way to "tax" the motorist, but the govt. now takes the fines generated instead (they don't want cameras to be seen as an obvious cash cow) and gives them back a "road safety grant", so SA only use them now as a visual deterrent and use the coppers with unmarked cars and vans instead to police the road. Very few people have ever been fined on the A77 by the specs cameras themselves.
Juan Hu Nose..
I live just off the A77, near Monkton.
I've honestly never heard of one person who has been caught by the SPECS... heard of people getting pulled by unmarked cars etc... but never from an average speed camera.
I push it a wee bit... sit with cruise control on at 55(on my speedo) and have been fine. Wouldn't be confident in saying they are 'switched off' but certainly don't feel they are set up to a 50mph average.
I've honestly never heard of one person who has been caught by the SPECS... heard of people getting pulled by unmarked cars etc... but never from an average speed camera.
I push it a wee bit... sit with cruise control on at 55(on my speedo) and have been fine. Wouldn't be confident in saying they are 'switched off' but certainly don't feel they are set up to a 50mph average.
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