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Looks like the speed cameras have been installed.
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Slippydiff said:
Where about's are they located ?
on of them is quoted on your triangle map - the b5105 from cerryigydrudion to ruthin b4391 just south of the triangle from ffestiniog towards bala. henry catchpole filmed his manuals matter video on this road and harris used it in the top gear peace for the guilia quad.
b4407 is a scenic single track road linking the south west corner of the triangle to the middle of the b4391
a4086 aka the llanberis pass is a nice road up the side of Snowden early in the morning
Have they had any power run to them? I commute over the Cat and Fiddle, and average cameras went up in 2011 (I think).
Three of them (along the long straight from the pub to the congleton turning) took weeks to fit as they dug ditches, and laid the power and data cables. All the others went up over a weekend with no cables laid to them. At night you can make out the faint red glow from the three (now two) out of the 6 that they installed that actually work.
Slightly off topic:
I emailed Cheshire plod not long after they went up to explain that you could go through the first two cameras, take one of the short cuts off the cat and fiddle which is national speed limit, and rejoin just before the last camera, and if you stuck to the speed limit it would look as though you'd averaged 65mph (higher speed limit over a shorter distance). I got a call from someone from Cheshire plod (who introduced himself as a police sergeant) explaining how the limits were set to account for that...... By the time I got the call I'd sussed that they were dummy cameras, so I asked him how accurate the cameras were given that they hadn't run any power to them.
He told me all the cameras were active, even after I'd pointed out that they clearly weren't and never would be (unless they could beam electricity to them across the moor land) . He stuck to his guns though.
Three of them (along the long straight from the pub to the congleton turning) took weeks to fit as they dug ditches, and laid the power and data cables. All the others went up over a weekend with no cables laid to them. At night you can make out the faint red glow from the three (now two) out of the 6 that they installed that actually work.
Slightly off topic:
I emailed Cheshire plod not long after they went up to explain that you could go through the first two cameras, take one of the short cuts off the cat and fiddle which is national speed limit, and rejoin just before the last camera, and if you stuck to the speed limit it would look as though you'd averaged 65mph (higher speed limit over a shorter distance). I got a call from someone from Cheshire plod (who introduced himself as a police sergeant) explaining how the limits were set to account for that...... By the time I got the call I'd sussed that they were dummy cameras, so I asked him how accurate the cameras were given that they hadn't run any power to them.
He told me all the cameras were active, even after I'd pointed out that they clearly weren't and never would be (unless they could beam electricity to them across the moor land) . He stuck to his guns though.
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