Those who travel the M4 from Cardiff through to Newport will have noticed of late the whole section has gone 50mph. The Welsh Assembly have announced today that next year the whole section will be monitored by SPEC cameras.
How the can these useless get away with this. They have taken a 10 mile section of the M4 and just tunred it slower than a country lane. How do you send a message to Industry that Wales is open for business, oh yes it it, but just very slowly. This is crazy. God help one of these dick heads if they come canvassing on my doorstep. Time for the uprising.
When are these self-righteous knobs going to realise that THEY work for electorate, not the other way around I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
5th Jun 2009 9:44 am
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to be fair its a bit of a racetrack on the east side of the bryn glas tunnels in the morning with lanes coming on and off - they need to get that new motorway bypass built to the south
but welcome to the world of motorway capacity reduction (about 30% I calculate) - we have the same stupid setup on the SE corner of the M60 - all because of a couple of d**kheads who crashed and killed themselves - once again the amjority penalised by the actions of the tiniest tiniest minority (and usually their berieved families trying to 'stop it happening again') Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
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When the revolution comes we should lay them all along that stretch of the motorway as speed bumps see if that works. Some one keep a list of names so we get the right ones.
Road safety for the inanely stupid. I don't suppose they bothered to find the root cause of the accidents and publish it did they? Oh silly me they know better than that it was of course "speeding" The police told them so. We'll soon be able to take our ride on mowers out on these roads and be able to break the speed limit. Sorry being flippant of course we would need MOT and road tax etc.
Unfortunately it is not a joke however hard these people try to make it one.
5th Jun 2009 12:11 pm
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Thanks, that info is good to know as I'm travelling between Newport & Cardiff on Monday.
although the road angel should pick it up.
oops, just thought will need to do a download for it.
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5th Jun 2009 12:23 pm
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The specs machines won't be going in until later next year 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
5th Jun 2009 1:08 pm
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The other thing is that the speed limit when the specs are installed will be variable ..a bit like the M25 has an the western section at the moment 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
The whole are is already set to 50mph with mobile cameras in operation. I went through it the other day and a cop car went in front of us driving across lanes to block passing at 50mph to prove a point. What point I don't know but hey at least the drug dealers and burgulars know they won't get caught
5th Jun 2009 1:20 pm
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Yep I knew that the 50 was in place but this will go variable if you believe the Welsh Office shpiel. I lived on The Coldra for 20 odd years ...in the early days it was two lanes on either carriageway and hardly any traffic ....how things have changed 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
5th Jun 2009 1:26 pm
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So you spend more time looking at your speedo than you do the road ahead!!
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Set the Cruise Control to 50 and yr sorted - tis a bloody joke mind having gone thro this many times in the last few months
They will be making obligatory I have use LR dealerships in Wales before long - that really would be the end!!
5th Jun 2009 3:41 pm
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I also find the M4 between Cardiff & Swansea very annoying to drive.
Due to over-policing of this stretch, everyone trys to sit at 70mph.
But everyones interpretation of 70mph is slightly different.
Also you're doing 70mph in lane 1, a train of middle lane hoggers moves slowly up to your shoulder in lane 2 and because of gradient etc slows down
Your cruise control is trying to maintain 70 and you're fast aproaching the back end of a truck and cann't pull out cos of hoggers on your shoulder.
[btw, same thing happens in lane 2]
Gggrrrr makes me mad!
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5th Jun 2009 3:53 pm
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but ron you should be watching all this happening using your mirrors, preempt it and pull out into the middle lane before your space disappears - never get boxed in Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
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