The M4 @ Newport

Idiophreak

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

They should've been to Diagram 670 (ie. a red circle with 70 in it), as seen at the start of motorways and entry slip roads.

Eh? I've seen "70" signs about twice in my life...they always use the NSL sign...

Stephen_Leak

The majority getting it wrong doesn't make it right.

Sometimes, all you get is the blue rectangular information sign telling you are entering a motorway and what one it is. OK, it could be argued that this sign is enough to intimate that a speed limit of 70mph applies.

But there are no provisions within Direction 8 of the TSRGD that exempt "special roads" (ie. motorways) from the requirement to provide a pair of signs to Diagram 670 at the start of a speed limit.

Wig

Mclaren4022 wrote: »

Hi - after the tunnels it is no longer fifty - it is a variable speed limit - if there are no flashing signs - it is back to 70 now that the barriers have been replaced - if they are flashing - obey whatever speed it shows as that is what it catches you on!
Cheers

Well that's interesting, and everyone around me when I was there was also doing 50 past all the specs and under all the gantries (which displayed nothing), no-one dared to go over 50. This was a Saturday afternoon. At the end of the specs everyone went up to 70.

I was complaining to OH at the time that they have these F'ing gantries and not one of them is actually displaying what the F'ing speed limit is!

Interesting S. Leak, I will confirm in the TSRGD and may end up writing a letter to Newport Council & to say the speed limit should be on ALL the gantries not just the first one.

Idiophreak

Wig wrote: »

Interesting S. Leak, I will confirm in the TSRGD and may end up writing a letter to Newport Council & to say the speed limit should be on ALL the gantries not just the first one.

That'll just freak people out who know how to drive properly...they'll be going "national speed limit!? That's what I was doing already!!"

ariba10

There is (Or was) a sign there saying that it operated an average speed system?

Psychobabble

Here you go........


14 June 2011 Last updated at 20:16

Average speed limit on M4 at Newport is lifted.

The 50mph average speed limit on the M4 at Newport has been lifted with work on variable speed limit signs completed.

more on the BBC Wales news item in link below....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-13770723

Wig

So they have turned the cameras off then?

It doesn't actually say they have been turned off.