Average Speed Cameras

[mikey4444]

We now a few average-speed-cameras set up in South Wales. Can anybody help with me with the following question please.

What is the maximum speed allowed on the following, when the black and white Max Speed sign is showing ? :::

1....a dual carriageway
2 ...a non-dual carriageway

I have it in my mind that it is 70 on the first and 60 on the second...am I right ?

[mikey4444]

I think baza has it right !

[Old_Geezer]

Since both takes 2 minutes you'd have to go infinite miles per hour.

[mikey4444]

Oooo...not sure now !

[baza]

misread the question, 30mph plus 90mph equals 120 divide by 2 gives 60 mph, I am now going for a lay down in a dark room.

[SirOracle]

Spot on Old Geezer. It is impossible.

[Baldric]

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060913102952AAmQp08

[-Talbot-]

I think mikey needs to publish a rule book.


Friends of mikey change subject, mikey likey
Not friends of mikey, mike no likey.

[retrocop]

You are correct. It is known as the National Speed Limit.

[Bazile]

Do you agree ?

But Hugh Bladon, of the Association of British Drivers pressure group, says the new cameras still cause sudden braking by panicked drivers, but also now cause long stretches of crawling traffic.

"People see a camera and immediately put their foot on the brakes," he says. "It doesn't lead to good driving. You get people driving along and their eyes are glued to the speedometer rather than to the road.

"In towns people who should be looking for children between the [parked] cars will be looking at their speedometers."

[Bazile]

Baldric

//Unlike a number of folks on here douglas, I can remember how to read and how to Google. //

I daresay you could google the answer to your question and get the answer in the majority of cases

However it is always interesting to read something on here that you didn't know , that you didn't know

[retrocop]

Baldric
Here we have a gentleman who, by his own admission, is an awful driver, he doesn't know the law regarding speed limits in this country, he relies on his car for his job and doesn't have the wit to put his hand in his pocket and buy a Highway Code. He also has ,previously, displayed contempt for the police on several occasions on this site. "Plod" ,"Stupid white police"etc. Hope due to his ignorance in road safety matters he reigns in his contempt if stopped by Morriston's finest for any traffic infringements he may "Unwittingly" commit!!! God forbid, due to his apparent disinterest in road safety, he kills someone who would just say he is "not infallible"
NB. Morriston is South Wales Constabulary Traffic Dept H.Q. a place that best be avoided by our errant motorist.

[Baldric]

Thanks for that retrocop,
they were the filth @ 1756 today in ' The Archers' thread.

[retrocop]

My word. Just read that. No end to this man's vocabulary. Haven't heard him use the word PIG yet. It was an acronym for Pride Integrity Guts.
By the Baldric. Tell me it is not true. My father served with 45 Royal Marine Commando back in the 50's in the Troodos Mountains EOKA campaign. Bootnecks don't really hold hands do they??? :-) See my thread on chatterbank yesterday re PC. Very funny.

[Baldric]

If I answered that I'd have to shoot you!
;o)

[retrocop]

Well at least I'm talking to you. Now if you were ex RAF (aog I believe) then no one, apparently talks to them. At least we don't take umbrage and offence with this type of humour and banter!!

[Baldric]

No way,
Life's too short!

[retrocop]

Agreed. Well it's lights out for me. Good Night Baldric.

[Baldric]

G'night RC.

[vulcan42]

Not all dual carriageways have a speed limit of 70. There is one in N Ireland that catches a lot of people, they see a dual carriageway ahead sign and when they reach it, accelerate, only to be stopped further on by a policeman who points out that the speed limit is 40 and this is prominently displayed. I was stopped but being a visitor, let off with a warning " better to observe than assume"