SPECS type camera on the M8

Post by **simon** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:09 pm

Went to se the Foo Fighters in Glasgow last night (bloody superb

) and on the way there just before J15 on the M8, I'd swear I saw a SPECS camera on one of the gantries. Anyone know what they are?

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:13 pm

I'll look it up on my sat nav!

Post by **simon** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:21 pm

Looks like they could be SPECS after all:

http://www.abd.org.uk/cameras/strathclyde.htm

Watch out all you weegies

Post by **simon** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:23 pm

Actually, I just noticed the dates on that site and it's ancient so I'm no wiser as to what it was.

Did look like SPECS tho.

Skyenet · Post by **Skyenet** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 11:32 pm

simon wrote:Actually, I just noticed the dates on that site and it's ancient .

Thats what I thought as there have been 2 speed cameras in Bellshill for years and that site only lists one. I reckon the M8 infra red cameras it mention were the one a few years ago on wee trailers at the side of the motorway which used to give a readout of your speed.

Post by **simon** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 11:42 pm

Well what I saw looked very much like this:

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:26 am

Surely the clamp down on the tax discs ?

mac · Post by **mac** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:21 am

Nope

IainF's correct. They occasionally place a trailer which can display all types of information.

Few years passed it was used to control the speed in that area, using those cameras. Was quite amussing really.

1st week it displayed a speed in MPH
2nd week it displayed number plates
3rd week it display both speed & number plate (at which point folk started trying to get the highest speed)
4th week was the same as the third except they added the word FINED! and that's when the NIP's started to flood through the doors.
By the 5th week you hardly saw a number plate on it.

Can't say you weren't warned about it.

Cheers

Mac