Cool! Sydney Traffic Cameras live on-line!

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Thats pretty nifty.

Heres the URL for the London cameras.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/travel/jamcams/

Looks like the road i drove to work to the camera is bloody broken.

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Cool! I guess this means we'll have to keep an eye out for a big blue Subaru, huh?
 
Unbelieveably cool, vat_man.

Though I just got slapped for calling my girlfriend over here four times in the last minute to tell her about stalls on the M4.

MazKid - no you don't. Damn cameras everywhere. Aaah!
 
Originally posted by M5Power
MazKid - no you don't. Damn cameras everywhere. Aaah!
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Hmmm...it shouldn't bother you unless you have something to hide! :lol:
 
I'd love it, I'd love seeing my car on a national system like that.

So what, we all speed and we don't use radar detectors(my bro does I think) and we've gone well over 120 in 2 of our cars and we've never been pulled over. Last time we were pulled over was my bro when he started driving...2 or 3 times lol.

Jordan-we've got nothing to hide....all of our vehicles are beautiful! :lol:
 
Originally posted by Jordan
Hmmm...it shouldn't bother you unless you have something to hide! :lol:
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Hey, man, I don't want my insurance rates going up because some enterprising traffic officer sees me turning around in an exit lane from twenty miles away at a desk! :lol:
 
Originally posted by Jordan
Cool! I guess this means we'll have to keep an eye out for a big blue Subaru, huh?
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:lol:

I wish you the best of luck.

A workmate of mine feels a little bit guilty looking at them - he thinks one day he's going to fluke a shot of an enormous car accident in action.
 
Originally posted by M5Power
Well, that's why I'm saving all the British ones at regular intervals...
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What are you trying to say? :lol:

Anyway, when it comes to the M4, you need to be moving to have a shunt (generally)
 
Giles, I have no idea what I'm staring at with these cameras, but they've been updated about 30 times since 5:40 AM British time. Rush hour came and went. Did you Englanders know that if you left work about an hour earlier, there would be no-one on the roads to contend with, so you wouldn't have to complain about going so slowly? I swear it's true! :D
 
Ah, but then you see the roads planners, who work with the counter-intuitive plan of trying to actively snarl up the traffic, would then come up with some other useless invention to annoy us, rather like the paradoxically-named "traffic calming" schemes which prevent you from driving at a constant speed.

If you're looking at the M4, have you noticed the green, empty lane 3? That's a bus lane.
 
I can't find any cameras on the M4, but I'm looking at Holloway Road, evidently where it collides with Seven Sisters Road (:reallyodd) and there's a two standard lanes, then an (empty) bus lane, then a parking lane! What if you were pulling out of the parking lane and got rammed by a bus? Ouch!

But the thing that really irks me is the three cars I've seen driving in the bus lane so far. Damn idiots! :mad: I guess they're in every country.
 
They may be unmarked taxis, which are allowed in the bus lanes.

What irritates me is the people who turn left, and cross the bus lane to do it (the correct etiquette is to enter the bus lane, to the decelerate and turn), thus simply chopping across the bows of buses. One of these days, someone's gonna get T-Boned by a double-decker, and it's gonna hurt!
 
One was a black cab and the other was a motorbike, but the other was a fairly old Mitsubishi van, so it's possible.

I'm sure (or I hope) people get t-boned by double deckers all them time doing that - as they well should :lol:. It's fairly apparent to me, now, though, that Britain has a much, much, much greater reliance on mass transit than America does. I knew it was prevalent in the past, but to actually have a large portion of the road in a major world city designated for buses only is unbelievable. Plus, there's always the temptation for the drivers to cut around long 'queues' in the bus lane.

Another thing about London traffic is the amount of large trucks (the 'lorries') in traffic. I'm surprised that they allow so many large trucks on the streets, it seems to be dangerous to motorists in one way or another.
 
In cities, mass transit is actually beginning to become a more realistic form of transport - I use buses all the time in Edinburgh. The only problem is that where I live isn't very well served by buses, so one needs to learn the timetable, or wait at stops for ages. That said, the timetables are up on the web, so with PDA and phone, you can look up the time of the next bus, which is kinda cool!

As far as the bus lanes go, having made that observation, you should re-read this post...

The prevalence of trucks is entirely due to the decline and fall of the railway system in the 1970s and 80s, when rail freight almost completely died out. It's still in a terrible state, but I think it's maybe beginning to pick up, especially with the continuing rise in the price of fuel. Also, by-and-large, our trucks are a lot smaller than yours, and thus more able to travel through cities.
 
I should point out that these cameras aren't new - the traffic centre's been there for years. An example is the Warringah freeway (which leads south into the Sydney Harbour Bridge) - the lanes are variable, so they manipulate the number of lanes heading north and south (see my photos of my drive over the Harbour Bridge in another thread).

This is just the first time they've been available on-line.
 
Originally posted by jubula
cool.i just saw a Mustang.are Mustangs common over in Aussie Land?
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Well, not really, but there are a few kicking around.

You can buy them new here, but Ford charge an absolute bomb for them (even taking into account RHD conversion costs).
 
So, where are we looking? Any interesting spots anyone has found. I can't decide where to look.
 

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