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Re: new speed camera at Poolsville
by Paul Wilson-10
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I was in Korea last week, and took a ~400 km road trip (in a cage) from
Daegu, around the south of the country. There are speed cams everywhere (on
both the 4 lanes and 2 lanes), but the sat nav from the rental car place not
only knew the camera locations, it would flash an obnoxious warning (and a
verbal warning in Korean) and give you the right speed to cruise past the
cameras. Of course all the other drivers on the road have the sat nav too,
so everyone slams on the brakes to go by the speed cam at 100, 80, 60 kph,
what have you, and then they immediately wick it back up to "normal" speed
(120+ on the freeways), making driving on the main highways a little
nerve-wracking, so say the least. Didn't see LEOs doing traffic enforcement
anywhere along the highways.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Euan Fisk <dc2wheel@...> wrote:
> Is anyone running the speed/red-light camera alerts on their GPS? This
> site:
>
> http://www.poi-factory.com
>
> claims to have 290 locations in the DC metro area. Seems like a deal for
> $5.
>
> -Euan
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Trevor Angel <trevangel@...>
> wrote:
>
> > Three of us went for a ride a couple of weekends ago, and all three of us
> > received a lovely photo in the mail of ourselves riding over some white
> > lines going into Poolsville. Mine was 44 in a 30.
> >
> > There's a 30mph sign .2 miles before the camera. I don't recall whether I
> > saw the sign but if you don't see it or don't take notice of it, there
> are
> > few other visual cues that you're entering a built-up area. Still seems
> > pretty rural even where the camera is set up.
> >
> > I checked it out in Google Streetview - and that's how I know this camera
> > is
> > relatively new. I found the piece of road where the camera is set up -
> > there
> > are white lines across the road in my speed camera portrait, but not in
> the
> > Google image. Likely that the Google image is not much more or less than
> a
> > year old, so camera is a new addition.
> >
> > here's the google link
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/nrf8b2
> >
> > Anyone know of a map of area speed cameras?
> >
> > Trevor
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Daegu, around the south of the country. There are speed cams everywhere (on
both the 4 lanes and 2 lanes), but the sat nav from the rental car place not
only knew the camera locations, it would flash an obnoxious warning (and a
verbal warning in Korean) and give you the right speed to cruise past the
cameras. Of course all the other drivers on the road have the sat nav too,
so everyone slams on the brakes to go by the speed cam at 100, 80, 60 kph,
what have you, and then they immediately wick it back up to "normal" speed
(120+ on the freeways), making driving on the main highways a little
nerve-wracking, so say the least. Didn't see LEOs doing traffic enforcement
anywhere along the highways.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Euan Fisk <dc2wheel@...> wrote:
> Is anyone running the speed/red-light camera alerts on their GPS? This
> site:
>
> http://www.poi-factory.com
>
> claims to have 290 locations in the DC metro area. Seems like a deal for
> $5.
>
> -Euan
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Trevor Angel <trevangel@...>
> wrote:
>
> > Three of us went for a ride a couple of weekends ago, and all three of us
> > received a lovely photo in the mail of ourselves riding over some white
> > lines going into Poolsville. Mine was 44 in a 30.
> >
> > There's a 30mph sign .2 miles before the camera. I don't recall whether I
> > saw the sign but if you don't see it or don't take notice of it, there
> are
> > few other visual cues that you're entering a built-up area. Still seems
> > pretty rural even where the camera is set up.
> >
> > I checked it out in Google Streetview - and that's how I know this camera
> > is
> > relatively new. I found the piece of road where the camera is set up -
> > there
> > are white lines across the road in my speed camera portrait, but not in
> the
> > Google image. Likely that the Google image is not much more or less than
> a
> > year old, so camera is a new addition.
> >
> > here's the google link
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/nrf8b2
> >
> > Anyone know of a map of area speed cameras?
> >
> > Trevor
> > _______________________________________________
> > dc-cycles mailing list
> > dc-cycles@...
> > http://dc-cycles.org/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/dc-cycles
> >
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