OT - Anyone know what's going on on the M4????

[manckster]

What is going on with all those new cuttings into the side verges every mile or so?

Anyone know?

[ZZR600]

Gatsos

[manckster]

I wouldn't be surprised

Speaking of which, I saw some strange camera thing being erected (ooer) on the M25 near Heathrow today. It wasn't a blue Trafficmaster thing, and it didn't look like a gatso, more line ET really. What's that too?

Paranoid from Wiltshire.

[ZZR600]

Wouldnt have a clue on that one no doubt some other device to rake yet more money from motorists , God this country depresses me at times

Fed up from Dorset

[madcop]

If someone can tell me where they are on the M4 I will find out for you as i have not seen them yet.

[manckster]

The new cuttings are all the way along both sides around junctions 12-15 on the M4.

The camera thing was on the M25 clockwise between J13 and J15

[CarZee]

Like they need anything to make the M4 go any slower???

Bollocks to it from Basingstoke...

[SBudden]

Might be something to do with this....?:

www.pistonheads.com/speed/default.asp?storyId=4702

[SJobson]

The M1's suffered a rash of cuttings in the last few months - just for installation of those electronic noticeboards which always seem to say 'Don't Drive Tired' rather than the more useful 'There's stationary traffic straight after the next junction'. Presumably because the m-way traffic would get off the m-way if they announced the latter, leading to blockages, pollution and accidents on the local roads...

[ajvmoore]

Perhaps they are setting up some Pie Shops?

[mondeoman]

quote:
Perhaps they are setting up some Pie Shops?

Now that would be a vote winner!!! But could you phone ahead and order yer pies to be passed to you without stopping???? Technical solution anyone??

[mondeoman]

quote:What is going on with all those new cuttings into the side verges every mile or so?

Anyone know?

Probably overhead displays and the marshalling boxes for them...

[CarZee]

What we need is some kind of Global Pie System.. could call it GPS?

[manckster]

You could hang the pies from posts like they used to with mail sacks for the trains.

Small bags with one or two pies could be hung over the middle lane and obviously the big bags full of "all the pies" would have to hang over the inside lane for truckers and the outside lane for all those fat BMW drivers who are always in it regardless of prevailing conditions!

[pjg]

Wouldn't worry about it.. it's for the VMS signs (variable message signs) - the big boards that say useful things like "congestion ahead" or "slow - fog" and "accident ahead"....

[richb]

This seems to happen quite often on the M4, a few years ago they dug a huge hole in the embankment at the side of the J8/9 roundabout, took several diggers a few weeks to dig it out, then they just filled it all in again with gravel. I reckon it's a either a scret plan to dispose of low-grade neuclear waste or more likely a bunch of local pikey's who've got a contract to supply a few tons of top soil. Having flogged the top soil they tout round to find some other sucker who wants to get rid of a load of hardcore. Job done - double bubble - move on - dig up another motorway somewhere! Rich...

[pjg]

Just spoken to a mate of mine at the Highways Agency... apparently they're also building "acoustic barriers" between J5 and 9, with lane closures at night..

[gtir]

Has anyone actually witnessed a speed, er sorry, safety camera being erected(ohh missus)?

They just appear ("doo doo do doo")

[gtir]

quote:
Just spoken to a mate of mine at the Highways Agency... apparently they're also building "acoustic barriers" between J5 and 9, with lane closures at night..

Yes that's to test the barriers, brass band north bound - Metallica south bound....

Hmmm

[pjg]

hmmm.... are all parts of the M4 below the Watford Gap? - if so, then I'd agree it's part of a (sensible) north / south divide...!