This is from the Hello & Welcome thread updates.... A day delivering with an encounter with the Rotherham mobile camera van and then in the Evening i go to measure the M60 motorway 50mph signs.. that are Sir Peter Fahys high scoring cameras for his teams top of the police premiership speed camera figures...
Basically Fahy has the completely wrong size signs up on the M60 as of at least March 2016. A size prescribed only for roadworks. 1500mm. And I have Checked other Motorways 50mph sections and they are 1200mm. Except on the M621 Leeds there is a 900cm one with a 1200mm one (ODDS and SODS) .. and I havent measured Fahy's Pal Jon Murphy's M62 signs yet.. although i know the repeater spacing is dodgy on these as i have had a look at them a few times passing (see google maps end of M62)
03 March 2016 - www.safetycamera.org encounter.Peniston, Rotherham, Retford, Gainsborough and Wakefield. Then M60 in the evening.
The odds are defied again.. Black car accident and police van on the way to work.. completely pointless accident
Another black car again.. starting to get tedius... Then South Yorkshire police Safety camera van outside Sir Jacks in Rotherham.. chances?! anyway... illegal size signs and i get evidence.. but this camera guy doesnt want to comment at all! closes his hatch up! - plus more dodgy signs to the collection for the Bracketeering thread and some other questionable signs... then i find MASSIVE signs when they should be small!? completely opposite to the situation earlier at Sir Jacks with the camera guy where the signs were too SMALL off the motorway... So I few videos measuring stupid sized signs... and then because i have done the subject of HUGE signs or too SMALL in exatcly the opposite situation... After work.. later on I decide its about time to measuree the M60 50mph Peter Fahy signs.. as I noticed thay were rather large.. has someone changed them over?! Oh & i call past West Yorkshire police HQ seeing as im in Wakefield and a woman walks past in Black with a pink streak in her hair.. no idea if it was the Chief of police.. probably not.. It was a similar type of looking woman to Jo Wily face. Then i found the Probation service HQ by accident looking at a brick flatbank that i never knew was in Wakefield.. and on the Way back past Dewsbury police station i realise that the approach to the traffic lights opposite Dewsbury police station .. well some signs block the clear view of the traffic lights (Fixed camera lights)
So they DO need the Traffic Light warning sign in place.. Like when you are driving down hill the other way and they DO have the sign the other side for that camera there! before the bend!
Oh, and just to mock the black car Morning accident on my way to work... There was a black car after going to the M60 in the late evening.. it was Snowing and hail, but the motorway was running fine.. no speed limit in place at all!? AND roadworks out on the carriageway working?! no speed limit needed!? But then another police vehicle over Rishworth Moor.. A black smashed up car outside lane... you could hardly see it!? the legend signs said caution accident! slow, but no compulsory limit at all, and everyone was going around it fine... and the roadworks as well! in the snow! at Dark!? it was just way too co-incidental vibe to the Black car this morning, the two yesterday and this.. that it is just too Suspicious to be random. Either someone is taking the pee, pee or Something else...
I do not think these were just "regular occurances" but that is just an opinion.
A couple of signs for the day... Triangle and circle shape is the most important part of the sign! NO IT ISNT ITS THE NUMBERS! NO. SHAPE. NO! NUMBERS!
Sir Jack designed a road sign where the numbers never faded.. ever.. or was that the red edge never faded.. ever...
one or the other, anyway..
Sir Jacks camera vans, Rotherham. (these 60mm motorway signs are next to 2 300mm 40mph repeaters both together on the odabout, slightly odd. (intentional) no doubt to make aware that they are aware of the 600mm ones being wrong as well)
Rotherham south yorkshire, a camera van again! by Sir Jacks!
The wind keeps blowing the tape measure! while trying to measure the signs and i get pissed off! lol.
Gainsborough, the low and too frequently placed 50mph signs at where the laughing mobile camera man & friend site is, where i waved at guy and he filmed it and i was shown the video at Dewsbury police station/PC Walker. But not charged for any stickers from other forces than Manchester/West Yorkshire.
Blythe, HUGE motorway size signs! on a regular road!? when, earlier.. the speed camera van was enforcing a road which needed those! but had too small size signs in place on exit off the motorway instead!? and his device could not be used as prosecuting evience under such circumstances!
are we paying for all of these wrong signs?! why are they wrong?!
Blythe, just after the signs.. talking to a woman who was mowing her grass about how long the huge signs have been there for and we got talking about council planning and the fact they ignore objections to building projects.
Wakefield HQ & magistrates court/town hall commissioners campus drive-by after delivering to Wakefield
And not to forget.... I have been told (police quote) that the police are only responsible for placing and maintaining the police and speed camera signs. Not the other road signs. (which is a loada crap) as they have to check all of them or the equipment is useless as evidence... but.. lets go with them on this.... here we have...
POLICE CAMERA AND 300mm 50MPH SPEED SIGN COMBOS .. OF ILLEGAL SIZE.
so whats the excuse for this one? The Police have the Authority to Prescribe road signs now? and sizes that are illegal and not in the manual at all? The Chief can authorize them? Thus the Chief can authorize all signs and any sign and in fact.. has the same Powers at the Secretary of State for Transport.. and the Police Chief is a lot more active and involved in road signs and the placing of and psychology of road signs than he cares to admit, or be responsible for or answerable to?
The police DID check the numbers hadnt faded on this sign, when they were placing the camera sign underneath it, right?
Dewsbury police station traffic lights are in fact obstructed view. on their approach, by signs and posts.
(muted video)
Here's the link to the Manchester M60 most lucrative camera story again..
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/424979/Britain-s-top-ten-most-lucrative-speed-cameras-raked-in-12million-in-just-three-years One camera on the M60 near Stockport caught 32,205 speeding motorists, and with the minimum £60 it will have made a huge £1,932,300. Each of the 10 cameras have caught a minimum of 10,000 people breaking the law over just three years.
04 March, A check and measuring survey of other
50mph signs with Motorway approach speed. To compare to the Fahy Manchester M60 ones.
M621 Leeds, M606 Bradford, M62/A1 Junction, (M62 Liverpool to follow)
Leeds M621, ODD sizes mismatch. Central sign is 1200mm the other is 900mm, same with National speed signs opposite way. Also a repeater too large as well. Things to note... CENTRAL sign, no issues with plcing it in centre of motorway, yet other National speed limit signs "end of variable speed limit" have smaller signs in centre, with a claimed excuse that there isnt enough space, yet this example completely contradicts that.
M606 Bradford1200mm
M62/A1 junction 50mph signs 1200mm