Cat and Fiddle to get average speed cameras

Pokerface
Pokerface Posts: 7,960
edited February 2010 in The bottom bracket
Seems they are installing a network of average speed cameras on the Cat and Fiddle road starting this week.

I for one am glad to see this as it will finally slow down the cars and motorbikes - can't count the number of times I've nearly been killed by some motorbiker whizzing past me at over 100MPH while cycling that road.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manc ... 516133.stm

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  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    Average speed cameras eh? Willhub will be pleased. :lol:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Bhima wrote:
    Average speed cameras eh? Willhub will be pleased. :lol:

    Heh heh... Awesome!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Doesn't that road have a big motorcycle speed problem? If so average speed cameras wouldn't help it much as they record the front plate.

    Can you approach the safety camera partnership to find out your average on the bike :wink:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Pross wrote:
    Doesn't that road have a big motorcycle speed problem? If so average speed cameras wouldn't help it much as they record the front plate.

    Can you approach the safety camera partnership to find out your average on the bike :wink:

    These will record the rear, it's being done due to the motorcycle problem.

    (From April last year - http://www.macclesfield-express.co.uk/news/s/1107265_average_speed_cameras_on_the_cat_and_fiddle)
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    These will record the rear

    Sounds like my sort of camera :lol:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Pross wrote:
    These will record the rear

    Sounds like my sort of camera :lol:

    Heh heh...
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    So now the power rangers will go somewhere else, my guess is North Wales up near the Ponderosa (top of HorseShoe Pass).
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Apparently it's part of an initiative that North Wales police are involved in so I suspect they'll be getting a similar treatment soon. We'll soon have have all our best countryside roads blighted by these things and as they will be classed as roadside hazards they'll all need to be protected by safety fencing (with the additional lower bars to protect motorcyclists). Maybe we need to use some Darwinsian forms of traffic calming instead?
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    I'm suprised the bikers don't swamp the Snake Pass as much as it has more gradual bends which you can do faster and the road surface is flawless. Never seen a single biker up there at all!
  • redjeepǃ
    redjeepǃ Posts: 531
    Bhima,

    What's the Snake Pass like to cycle ? I'm originally from your neck of the woods and can remember it from my youth, but now live in Ireland. Last summer I was back in Manchester and was seriously thinking of cycling the Snake Pass but was put off by the reports of mad traffic etc.

    I went around Hebden Bridge (including that really steep lane) instead.
  • eltonioni
    eltonioni Posts: 82
    Snake was given a 50mph limit from Ladybower to Glossop a couple of years ago. It's the number of blind bends that scares me on there though.
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    Snake Pass is a beauty. Never been bothered by the traffic. Even rode it on a weekday afternoon, rush hour down at Glossop, and it was ok.
  • redjeepǃ
    redjeepǃ Posts: 531
    Cheers. I may give it a go this summer.

    I still remember it from years ago. It'll be good to try it on the bike.

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