Speeding on the M8!

[CSK_423]

I've seen quite a few people being pulled on the M8 west of the city centre recently. It's 50mph around there too. There's also the bit at the airport which has been changed to a 40mph limit. I am the only person in the entire world that goes through that at 40mph - everyone else just continues through it at 60 or 70mph. It's only a matter of time before they start pulling people there too.

Also saw the cops pulling people just near the roundabout at the top of Thornliebank last night.

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Is the 40 not a temp. speed limit ?? I struggled to keep to the 60 on there !

[dezzy]

The 40 at the airport was originally temporary. They've now shortened the distance it applies for and put permanent signs in. They're going to be doing more work on the barriers and the support of the bridge, hence the narrow lanes. I'm very happy to have a 40mph limit to protect the road workers, but there are no road workers there!

Dom, that's sh!t about that slip road! Barstewards! That's similar to the west bound slip road onto the M8 after the Clyde Tunnel. It's technically a 30mph limit right up to about 500 yards along the slip road before it becomes a 70!

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[PhilA]

That's similar to the west bound slip road onto the M8 after the Clyde Tunnel. It's technically a 30mph limit right up to about 500 yards along the slip road before it becomes a 70!

sounds like a rolling start!!

should be a 30 then 50 then 70 on a dualer, imho

[BiggestNizzy]

Common sence rarely applies when deciding speed limit's there are to many "other factors" they draw on to make their desicions. staggered buildup staggered slow down all seem sencible enough but rarely happen.

alas common sence is rare nowadays and this country is doing it's best to iradicate it

[Jamie84]

http://www.scottishelises.com/phpbb/vie ... automobile

same car

[s333fee]

M8 / M80 area is favourite, also watch out for an unmarked Scoda Octavia / taxi type car, usually dark blue but have also seen in silver.

Airpart area is 40 and I have ben followed by M5 BMW twice this week already they dont seem to be too obvious about it during rush hour but have seen them sitting on over pass waiting for you, and 2 BMW patrolling at the same time one on each side. Was in pimpy VW golf cabrio with a trailer load of stuff so was an obvious slow target since I sat at 32 the whole way just to annoy them !!!!

The 40 is to keep the traffice moving so it wont collapse while we all sit on it in rush hour, something to think about when you are parked on it!! which is never mentioned on the traffic info on the radio stations as we are not close enough to Glasgow to be mentioned.

[dezzy]

I'm surprised by the unmarked BMWs at the airport 40mph zone . . .

One day a couple of weeks ago, I was driving to work on the M8. On approaching the airport from the A737 and joining the M8, I slowed to 40mph for the 40 limit. A *traffic* police car joined the motorway from the airport slip road just in front of me.

Firstly, the traffic car was not observing the 40mph speed limit. It was clearly moving away from me and I would guess must have been doing between 50 and 60. One law for us, one law for those barstewards!

Then, I watched in amazement as they pulled out and sat in the middle lane! They were not overtaking anyone (nobody on inside) and just stayed there until they hit the 70mph limit. They let plenty of people pass them on the outside who were doing way over the speed limit without pulling them for speeding.

Then, when they hit the 70mph limit, they stayed in the middle lane at about 50 - 60mph!!!! Not overtaking anyone!!! I then proceeded to overtake them in the outside lane at 70mph. I had to move from lane 1, to 2, to 3, back to 2 and back to lane 1 again to overtake them because they were sitting in the middle lane at about 60mph! And this is our supposedly most "advanced" road drivers??!!! I was absolutely disgusted.

Bunch of hypocritical scumbags if you ask me!!

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[s333fee]

yes,

like everyone else have seen the police sit in the middle lane at 50 in a 70, and have passed them a few times, twice have been pulled over, once waved onto the hard shoulder then they just sped off, and once they pulled me over and told me it was illegal to overtake a police vehicle !!!! didn't get a ticket or anything just 30 secs of cop in window. have also had this down in greenock.

Never in elise always happens in rep mobiles, usual stuff astra, vectra, golf passat, etc all diesel, think they are just bored and you are an easy target.

I agree they seem to have a different set of rules to the rest of us, including using blue lights to go to the chippy, yes I have seen this, have been pulled for having my fogs lights on in the fog 2am thurs morning, doing 20 mph cause I couldn't see to go any faster, passed them sitting in a layby, and of course them driving around with various lights not working on their cars.

Remeber people we live in Police state. one rule for them one rule for us.

[Bada Bing!]

I know it is all 50mph, but I don't necessarily adhere to it.

[campbell]

Dom, the sliproad thing seems a bit sneaky. But I guess just goes to show we need to interpret all this fecking road furniture to the exact letter. Note to self - cruise around local area re-checking where all the speed limits are, a few have definitely moved in the last year or two, need to switch off the auto-pilot for a while!

[TAMBO]

I got my first points in 13 years.

Drove by a camera van in Livingston at the lizzie brice clocked it on the other side of the road. drove back the other way 20 mins later on the phone and on my hand free.

in my stinky signum

i went past the same van looked at my speedo it read 60 tutoids i was in a 50.

the phone does distract even on a hand free , i do honestly find that.
that's my only excuse for being so dim

got the 3 pointer through 58 they got me at in their lame 50 zone(pish) 60 quid and 3 points. pisses me off as that stretch of road used to be a national speed limit for ever its dual carridge way for feks sake. and i cant remember any serious accident there and im local to that area and would have heard about it.

at the end of the day

they are fkrs

i pass folk all the time gabbin on phones without the slugg in the lugg.

Target those fkrs and leave us guys going with the flow of traffic a break.

rant over......

feel better now

[Skyenet]

I got my first points in 13 years.

Drove by a camera van in Livingston

pisses me off as that stretch of road used to be a national speed limit for ever its dual carridge way for feks sake. and i cant remember any serious accident there and im local to that area and would have heard about it.

Never understood why the main dual carriage way running the length of Livingston was changed from National speed limit to 50mph. I used to live there and never heard of any accidents. Still know folk from the area and they say Police regularly have speed checks on it, catching loads of folks.

[campbell]

The only rationale I can offer is that a lot of the sliproads feeding that section (A800 I think it is?) are quite short and often of a "spiral" nature, meaning getting up to speed or decelerating in good time are difficult. For the doddery old grannies at least. Hence "nanny state", of course.

*sigh*

[pete]

The 50 speed limit along the M77 was to appease the folk who didn't want a Mway near their houses. The 50 limit is essentially a noise reducing factor.

Pete

[Caveat Lector]

I got my first points in 13 years.

Drove by a camera van in Livingston

pisses me off as that stretch of road used to be a national speed limit for ever its dual carridge way for feks sake. and i cant remember any serious accident there and im local to that area and would have heard about it.

Never understood why the main dual carriage way running the length of Livingston was changed from National speed limit to 50mph. I used to live there and never heard of any accidents. Still know folk from the area and they say Police regularly have speed checks on it, catching loads of folks.

If I recall right the speed limit changed at the same time as all the fast-link bus stops were built along the road. I took it that the two were related.

Based purely on the occasional appearance of bunches of flowers and other memorial type stuff by the side of the road I'd guess there's been between half a dozen and a dozen accidents in the 4 years I've lived here.