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Just driving down the M18 from the M62, as i do every morning and night, and have noticed the bright yellow poles that usually have average speed cameras attached to them!

There are going to be some road works lasting 6 months on a 3 mile stretch of the motorway just after it starts at the M62. Traffic cones have been in place for few weeks now in preparation.

Now, as i said, i drive the entire length of the M18 twice a day, and the majority of it is a two lane motorway. At this point where the roadworks are, it is a three lane motorway, which they are reducing to two lanes.

Becasue it is a main route between Hull and the A1 south / M1 South, this road is full of HGV's at all times of the day. In a morning, the average speed of vehicles down the M18 is around the 56mph mark, as lorries casue huge tailbacks by overtaking each other. Now is it me, or does this just seem a waste of money?

Since they put the average speed SPECS cameras on the A14, between Huntingdon and Cambridge, there seems to have been more accidents than ever.

Hardly a week goes by when the road is not closed for half a day by some major accident.

I am waiting until a year is up and will then be making a Freedom of Information enquiry as to the number of accidents in the year before and year after the SPECS speed cameras were introduced.

Just be grateful that they decided to keep the A14 at NSL -- the original plan was to reduce it to 50 mph and add speed cameras.

When there is a highest risk of accidents, you would be lucky to be doing 50mph.

Keeping the HGVs to the nearside lane would stop them swerving out into the path of other vehicles, as I have experienced, and it would stop the elephant racing.

But then you get huge queues behind slow caravans, tractors and the like.

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They may have kept it to NSL in most places but they have added speed cameras. You can see the effect that SPEC’s have on driving if you travel along the section around Cambridge. At a decent time the traffic flows fine on the A14 until you get to the stretch where the SPEC’s are, you then get people reducing there speed down to 60 – 65 which in turn causes congestion and makes the road less safe.

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