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Tiger
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They must be costing us so much money, and they are a complete waste of time.

Over the last year, i've seen maybe 10% of them are accurate. They are either faulty, displaying speeds rediculous to the road conditions, saying there are accidents.........after the accidents, being left on long after an accident or delay has occured with restricted speeds for up to 2 hours after any incident.

Well what a waste of time they actually are.

Today there was a a tyre in the road in a queue of traffic, I saw 2 people hit it. 5 miles up the road and a sign is displayed saying debris in road. This has to be the 10th time i've seen this in a few months.

Again, today, a motorcyclist had been knocked off his bike on the M1 J8-9. The gantries didnt give any warning, until 4-5 miles after further up the motorway, all of a sudden cones appeared in the motorway without warning because the signs were wrong.

I'd love to know the figure spent on these utter time and space wasting items of road furniture.

Rant over.
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They are a good idea but only if they are actually updated in real time, not like 3 hours after the incident has been and gone
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they're always telling me to slow down
Tiger
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The principal is great, in practice they neither accurate nor reliable.
Marc
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If you don't like overhead motorway gantries...
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Reminds me of Jimmy Carr's fog on the motorway sign joke
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Someone told me they wont give you advence warning of ques up ahead as most will just turn off and clog up local routes.
So yes a waste of money
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quote:
Originally posted by JonnyJ
Reminds me of Jimmy Carr's fog on the motorway sign joke

Damn, that was going to be my comment

I like it when they tell me it's foggy, just incase I hadn't realised...
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i enjoy it when sitting in a queue the sign then tells me there is a queue. stops me from thinking im imagening that im sitting standstill.
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was this on the m3 tiger?
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quote:
Originally posted by sigibbons
was this on the m3 tiger?


M1 yesterday mate.
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I find the m6 ones are always acurate.. Although they advise of other roads absoutely miles away that are congested/closed
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quote:
Originally posted by Graham88
quote:
Originally posted by JonnyJ
Reminds me of Jimmy Carr's fog on the motorway sign joke

Damn, that was going to be my comment

I like it when they tell me it's foggy, just incase I hadn't realised...


I'm surprised I've never seen one of those daft insurance claims you here about saying I was distracted by a fog warning on the gantry signs which I was struggling to read due to the fog and that's why I hit the stationary car in front
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m42 is worse they are forever changing the speed, one minute its 60 then 40 then 50. Might as well just leave it a set speed imo.
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Anyone else got these speed boards popping up everywhere? Now they're a god damn waste of time and money, break every week anyway!
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The ones with the sad faces?
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Tiredness kills.
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quote:
Originally posted by AlunJ
Anyone else got these speed boards popping up everywhere? Now they're a god damn waste of time and money, break every week anyway!


Proven to work better than cameras. Never seen one break.

As for the motorway boards, with all the crap drivers, awful lane discipline, peope who can't indicate, and a whole load worse driving issues, really, are the signs that much bother??

Maybe its cos ours seem to work down here ??? And usually quite close to timescales. Although the Fog one makes me smile. I like the think biker one too.
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There was a programme on about it a couple weeks ago. one of the things said was that if they receive any phonecall about debris being on the motorway they will put a limit on the gantries until it has been checked by a highways officer as they can't take the risk.

[Edited on 04-06-2010 by fro-dizzle]
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quote:
Originally posted by fro-dizzle
a highways officer
[Edited on 04-06-2010 by fro-dizzle]


Talking of wastes of time...
Fro
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ours seems to work ok round me too,

the ones in europe are better
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There is a about 30 miles of M4 which has the new fancy ones which look like massive plasma TV's.. If anything they are a destraction.
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"SIGN UNDER TEST" LMAO

"SIGN NOT IN USE" - Was on the M25 for about 6 months lmao One of the small yellow ones that are like on a little trailer

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