A few months ago, I posted a couple of rants about speed cameras, specifically the new average-speed cameras being installed on a stretch of dual carriageway on my way to work. Well, they’re in and the road has been extensively resurfaced and finally fully reopened.
Reopened to MORONS. And me, of course.
You see, they’re average-speed cameras. So there are two cameras, about two miles apart, and they calculate how long you’ve taken to travel that distance and so determine if you’ve been speeding or not. Except, people don’t seem to have grasped this concept. Every single day, I get cars slam their brakes on for the first camera, then power off to the next one where they stand on the brake pedal again. And get flashed for their trouble.
IDIOTS.
This wouldn’t be a long stretch of the A1 would it? I had the pleasure of driving that route the other day after an accident rendered the M1 a parking lot. I thought it was a great road. As I don’t speed the speeding cameras weren’t an issue for me, but I did notice people sill flying past me at between 80 and 90mph.
No, the A47. Anyway, as I posted today, they’re gone now!