So VisorDown goes the way of MCN reporting any old tat in there forums as News. You didn't need to pick up a phone to confirm this common sense would have done.
Are they being switch on on the 15th of Feburary I don't know but who ever wrote the e-mail knows nothing.
They have always been digital cameras it was a requirement of putting the system in.
Use some common sense did you see people up there every other day changing the film when the system was running. As anyone who commuted around the M25 in the late nineties (when the system was running) can tell you, it was working and it changed with the varible speed limits. How would it do this if there wasn't comms to the gantries.
It was switched off because of the change in the law. Remmeber when all the cameras suddely got those yellow backs so you could spot them. This was done to satisfy a requirement that the camera had to be clearly marked. Dispite the Speed Camera warning signs on the gantries on the M25 the actual camera couldn't be seen so they became illegal.
What has changed? Last year the law was changed from national to something local county councils can decide for themselves. So they can now chose to allow cameras that aren't clearly marked. Thats why that nutter Brunstrom is going on about steath cameras. I am sure this will see the switching on of the varible speed limit system on the M25 soon.
Any Auto Journlist worth anything should know all this.
Hope they do give ample warning it's coming back on as people now speed on the M25 all the time. Nothing new to see people doing 70mph when the varible limit is 50 or even 40mph.
Posted: 31/01/2008 at 09:01
