Deleted User Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Here's a little snippet of information.http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/a9-average-speed-camera-work-to-begin-1.290726Great news. I feel safer already.There's a huge amount of local opposition to this but it's going ahead anyway.Jim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiggrr1 Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 MWG445 wrote:There's a huge amount of local opposition to this but it's going ahead anyway.Jim.Since when have politicians taken any notice of the people who elect them :o (whistle) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Bancroft Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Sometimes I am glad that I had 20 or so years when I could drive without worrying about these things!I think speed cameras are great in towns, but on trunk roads they are surely for one thing, revenue! 111miles at an average speed. Umm, reckon that will be difficult to achieve in an old car on empty roads!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted User Posted May 6, 2014 Author Share Posted May 6, 2014 The "good" thing is that the cameras will only be on single carriageway sections not the dual carriageways, so, a little sense has prevailed.A lot of the problems are caused by HGV's trying to overtake on the dual carriageway sections, or elephant racing as we call it, then they complete their overtake just as you get back to single carriageway.Oh, and by the way, the speed limit for HGV's on the A9 is 40mph!Specs cameras on the only locations where you may end up trying to overtake a convoy of HGV's is a recipe for disaster.The genius who thought this up, probably someone who cycles to work in Edinburgh to save the environment, should be made to stand on the white line on a single carriageway section of the A9 to experience the same excitement as the drivers who wonder if they'll safely pass the HGV or have 3 points on their licence by the time they reach Inverness.Jim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cook1e Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 If Scotland votes for independance us Brit will be foreigners so technically we ought to get away without points, if I get done for speeding on the continent I'd get fined but wouldn't get points so it ought to be the same if I got done in an independant Scotland.bet that won't be the case though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 cook1e wrote: ... if I get done for speeding on the continent I'd get fined but wouldn't get points...Not so in Germany. They have a central system that stores points for Johnny Foreigners.So when you have collected enough points you're temporarily banned from driving in Germany ...Here in the NL we only have a points system for young drivers :X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryH Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 They are average speed cameras so a short burst of speed to overtake a lorry should be capable of being compensated for.You could slow down to 30 immediately after overtaking then every body else can overtake within the limit.Considering the ingenuity of contributors to this forum you must be able to think up ways of coping with the lorries without exceeding an average of 40 mph but no James Bond number plates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted User Posted May 7, 2014 Author Share Posted May 7, 2014 Yeah, speed up to overtake the lorries, usually in a 40mph Tesco convoy doing closer to 56mph, then slow down to compensate and bunch everyone up behind you.It's a wonderful farce to make politicians look like their doing something positive while everyone else is placed in greater danger.Still, brings in more money to the government coffers, so that can't be a bad thing?Jim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 from - http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/opponents-claim-a9-average-speed-cameras-are-being-railroaded-through-1.296524Quote:A spokesman said: “The A9 Safety Group firmly believes that average speed cameras will save lives on the A9. We have committed to having the system installed by October and we have to start work now to meet that deadline.I wonder why they chose that deadline?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrapman Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 MWG445 wrote:Still, brings in more money to the government coffers, so that can't be a bad thing?Jim.Well it is going to be needed once Scotland goes it alone.I am sure anyone with a set od speed tables should be able to keep to the limits.Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted User Posted May 27, 2014 Author Share Posted May 27, 2014 Latest update:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-27586274Jim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHRIS211083 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 We drove through part of this on our way to Fort William the other weekend. Our sat nav tells us what our average speed was though this zone which means you can confidently overtake and then reduce speed sufficiently.Good bit of kit the Tom Tom but the Cameras are totally not needed. Also the Cameras are still recording on the dual carrigeway parts it just changes to 70mph which the tomtom calculates. :)Chris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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