PMobile_var

[MrT]

What on earth is this category?

I am not sure how there could be a mobile variable speed camera as it would have to be linked into the speed gantries to prove what the speed limit was at the time of the photo. Can anyone clafiriy this?
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Drivelux

[Anita]

It's all explained in this post from last September!
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Anita
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[PaulB2005]

But it's made an appearance in this weeks database....

[PaulB2005]

It is correct. Mobile:83103 is reversible by the road has different speed limits depending on your direction.

[M8TJT]

[DennisN]

The road does NOT have different speed limits according to your travel direction (and it's not a dual carriageway). Actually, that site is well outside the 40mph limit, which starts about halfway between the reported camera site and the crossroads (track) by the carpark for Stonehenge. We used to have a mobile@40 outside the carpark, inside the 40 limit and it was a sensible location as there are nearly always pedestrians using the road to cross between the carpark and Stonehenge (I think there's a pedestrian tunnel under the road?).

If we are to consider a reversible camera there, I feel we'd probably be better off with two, one for each direction with correct appropriate speed and heading on each, not a Variable one - to my mind, Variable is like the M42 and M25 variable Gatsos which have whatever speed is currently on the overhead gantries - this is a country road with no such traffic management scheme.

For my money, I'd be inclined to simply resurrect the old 40mph mobile outside the car park (although, yes, the straight 60mph road is something of a speedway - not least because it is a regular quick rat-run from A36 at Knook to A303 eastbound and vice versa, favourite route of mine, and you know what whitevanmen are like!!).
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[PaulB2005]

[M8TJT]

[DennisN]

"Why" is because the submitter has submitted a report with the comments that it's reversible (because it's on a tripod) and (in the submitter's opinion) is operable for both the speed limit it sits inside (60mph) and the speed limit it can see a couple of hundred yards away (40mph). If that is correct, we need one 60mph camera for the easterly direction and one 40mph for the westerly direction, to handle any satnav which can use directional info and presumably to get two warnings, one of which will be the correct speed, irrespective of direction of travel.

I've not visited the site to look - I myself verified the previous 40mph mobile, (Mobile:40798@40, which was purged from the database in January 2009, because nobody had reported it in action over a lengthy period - at least a year) based on the submission comments... "Monday 22nd October 2007, 0850 HRS. Mobile camera handheld by Police Officer located on sliproad just inside 40 MPH zone approaching Stonehenge car park."

This later submission doesn't actually say where it is, but the coordinates place it in an entrance to a field (see Hybrid View) a few hundred yards west of the previous one - such a shame that the comments don't say the words we need - either "at Stonehenge carpark" or "in field entrance west of Stonehenge". Indeed, the comments don't even say which direction it was operating in at the time it was seen! With my Verifier's hat on, I'd frankly reject the submission, simply because it's yet another one which hasn't got useful comments - all it says is "I've seen a camera here", but doesn't say where "here" is!

I still favour the old 40mph camera on the grounds that I would hope they use cameras to control traffic rather than rake in the cash and so the 40mph site is preferable for speed control and safety reasons.
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[M8TJT]

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