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This is going to happen over the next couple of months...and it is not good news !

Current camera's i found dont seem to go off if you are decelerating from around 90-95 mph

The new ones will obviously be set alot lower to catch people out and generate that all important extra revenue for the government !

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This is going to happen over the next couple of months...and it is not good news !

Current camera's i found dont seem to go off if you are decelerating from around 90-95 mph

The new ones will obviously be set alot lower to catch people out and generate that all important extra revenue for the government !

I heard that digital camera's were turned on between junctions 10 and 15 2 months ago, no escape from those puppies:(

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I heard that digital camera's were turned on between junctions 10 and 15 2 months ago, no escape from those puppies:(

The rumour was it was a couple of months ago between jn 10 to 15 (the variable spped limit section). I commute between jn 11 and 16 and I haven't seen any extra cameras (if they're still in those big grey boxes on the gantries) - the only locations I've seen them is between jn 10 to 12.

The question is: was it purely a rumour or are they really digital? Have not tried to see if the cameras trigger at 80+ and a NIP arrives through my letterbox!!!!!!!!!! :thumbup:

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The rumour was it was a couple of months ago between jn 10 to 15 (the variable spped limit section). I commute between jn 11 and 16 and I haven't seen any extra cameras (if they're still in those big grey boxes on the gantries) - the only locations I've seen them is between jn 10 to 12.

The question is: was it purely a rumour or are they really digital? Have not tried to see if the cameras trigger at 80+ and a NIP arrives through my letterbox!!!!!!!!!! :rotfl:

My mate works in the Highway Agency and informed me that it was "scheduled" to be done along time ago BUT as usual things have been delayed due to their implentation of digital cameras on the M62....he would let me know when these are due to go online !!

Just as a small point each digital camera costs 20,000........and i wonder how they are gonna get their money back !!!

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Only just noticed yesterday when I was sitting in the evening M25 traffic jam that they have added some new cameras to a gantry in front of a bridge just before jn 14 anti-clockwise. I assume these are digital because they are more square than the usual gantry cameras (seen the type before on M42). If, T79boy, your mate hasn't told you about them yet it could be because they haven't been activated yet. Any takers to test this theory?!!!

These cameras are very stealthy because they are completely obscured in the direction of capture by the speed limit sign directly in front of it (the old cameras could just be seen above the sign or the gantry itself).

Happy motoring!

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OH my god. Pootling around the M25 this evening I discovered even more of the digi scameras. Locations that I've spotted so far are: Anticlockwise - halfway between jn 16 and jn 15, gantry before first bridge after jn 15 (one I mentioned in previous message), just after jn 14, and just before jn 12; Clockwise - just before jn 14 (on same gantry as on anticlockwise).

I'm worried now that I might be missing some and I'm also worried in my search for all gantries with scameras I'll have an accident! Oh yeah, just the thing the scameras are supposed to prevent because they are SAFETY cameras, aren't they?!!

I think I might stop trying to give locations of individual scamera sites as there are so many. It may be just confusing for everyone trying to understand where they are and lots of you might already have detectors. (I must get myself one!) If anyone would like to keep track of new sites then I shall keep plugging away. I may even start mapping them out - which gantries do and which don't.

Otherwise, stay safe, don't let the scammers take your licence, and if in doubt use the 10%+3mph rule (but that's no guarantee either!)

(Not wanting to stay from the thread, but if anyone needs advice after receiving a NIP give these guys a try http://www.pepipoo.com/Case_files.htm - they saved my licence.)

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Can't help but look at each gantry I pass nowadays. I noticed that most junctions have cameras on the gantry before the junction with the 1/3-mile marker (or near), except on the clockwise cwy between M3 and Staines (jn 12 -13) where there are cameras right after the M3.

Strangely, on a gantry carrying cameras there is nearly always one lane which doesn't seem to be covered by a camera. Looking closer at the gantry above that lane (while sitting in the usual jams) there are two smaller boxes either side of the lane. They measure 9" sq and about 12" long with a dark circular lens. What are these? Are they newer camera setups? I think a gantry on the anti-clockwise cwy just after jn 16 has all lanes covered by these devices. If they are cameras then the single lens suggests to me that there will be no giveaway flashes.

Does anyone know?? :icon_butt:

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The rumour was it was a couple of months ago between jn 10 to 15 (the variable spped limit section). I commute between jn 11 and 16 and I haven't seen any extra cameras (if they're still in those big grey boxes on the gantries) - the only locations I've seen them is between jn 10 to 12.

The question is: was it purely a rumour or are they really digital? Have not tried to see if the cameras trigger at 80+ and a NIP arrives through my letterbox!!!!!!!!!! ;)

I have it on good authority that the variable cameras on the M25 are now under the MET police control and now, during times they are not set at a variable limit, i.e during off peak hours, the activating speedis being lowered and set at 80mph rather than the previous 90 odd. This has been in place now for a couple of months.

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