Hundreds of new speed cameras to be installed in France

[iandsm]

I'm failing to see the awesome.

I first visited France as a 19 year old in 1992 with 4 friends in my very first camper ...a 1973 vw pop top I had fond memories of that holiday and I didn't return to France till 2014 when I toured for 3 weeks with an ex partner ....I remember having told her how much I'd liked it 20 years before and how dissapointed I was when I returned ...it's quaintness had gone.

Then I travelled up West coast last year for 3 weeks on my return from Spain and doesn't like it.

I drove down through the middle in January to Spain this year and again I wasn't that impressed.

The Pyrenees mountains I drive through last week I liked but since hitting the south at perpognan and along the coast it's pretty flat too modern and very boring but that's just my opinion of it.

Maybe north and east bordering with Germany is better I don't know...But I guess I'm spoilt with the highlands of Scotland.

I've being doing what I usually do and Google an area beforehand to see points of interest and buildings etc as I like old architecture but from what comes up it isn't looking that great.
I'll check out marseille, nice and Monte Carlo if I can but it depends if I can get parked anywhere near them as I'm on foot then with dogs to visit.

You havnt done your research have you. I can tell you that you won’t like Merceille or Monte Carlo bit good luck.

 

[Duck Truck]

Dorwyn go to Scotland it's awesome as my kids say

 

[Northernraider]

You havnt done your research have you. I can tell you that you won’t like Merceille or Monte Carlo bit good luck.

I dunno it dates back to 600bc so should be some nice buildings there.
The cathedral is meant to be good and the old port

 

[GWAYGWAY]

Do not forget that in three years time or so New vehicles will have to have speed restriction on them forced non speeding to whatever the local bureaucrats deem is the BEST speed to cause trouble. GPS controlled as well built in. If you thought the elephant racing with the lorries was bad, imagine total limiting of one of those new cars, foot to the floor and stuck in a place you do not want to be, if the other driver speeds up to the LIMIT. All these things are to prove the control freekery that officialdom want so badly. Total control over you from birth to death in the Brave New World sorry, new world order. So I do not speed, but there will always be the place where it needs defined action to stop from doing it, imagine every infringement recorded on GPS, i mean EVERY one, over the limit bringing a penalty.
The UK government also are going along with it and that leads me to think they KNOW we are not leaving you know what.

 

[gus-lopez]

I always get the impression in France that it is a timebomb just waiting to explode.

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[Chris]

I always get the impression in France that it is a timebomb just waiting to explode.

They haven’t ever got over Waterloo really.

Having bloody ABBA rubbing it in can’t help either.

 

[Lenny HB]

The UK government also are going along with it and that leads me to think they KNOW we are not leaving you know what.

They have always said regardless of the outcome they would continue to harmonize motoring & vehicle construction regulations.

 

[mexican pete]

This is why several years ago I decided the drive through France was not worth the small saving over the cost of the ferry from Portsmouth to Bilbao. Arrive Bilbao early morning and in Javea by teatime.

 

[Chris]

 

[Chris]

https://www.myfrenchlife.org/2016/12/07/ways-to-offend-the-french/

And we thought women were complicated

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[Steve and Denise]

Won’t affect me no need to go there.

 

[vin0114]

Just loved the story about an old guy going through french customs fumbling about finding his passport - the impatient customs officer was complaiing that he should be ready with his passport opened at the apprpriate page - the old guy said 'when I was last here there was not a french person anywhere to be found'

 

[Northernraider]

https://www.myfrenchlife.org/2016/12/07/ways-to-offend-the-french/

And we thought women were complicated

That's on my to do list ....I've already done the arriving early and not kissing the mechanic

 

[Allanm]

Seems we can all look forward to more space in the aires then in the future
Win win!

 

[Scotch mist]

I’ve only found the french dismissive or rude when they think I’m english
It’s a game changer once I tell them I’m Scottish

A German guy once said to me the only thing wrong with the french is they are too much like the English

Personally I like all nationalities

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[Tigertom]

Yep, no ones forced to go to or travel through France but you’re probably missing out if you don’t. To repeat what’s already been said, if you don’t go there it leaves more room for those that do appreciate it.
No harm done, win,win situation.

 

[Northernraider]

Even the French don't like it

They all go to Spain and park real close to other motorhomers.
Which weirdly they don't seem to do in their own country

 

[Allanm]

...especially if they're not going to get their share of our £39 Billion, let alone the drop in exports to the UK

I doubt most French people will care one way or another.

 

[moulin 87]

No excuse for not spotting one.

Anybody caught by a speed camera in France has no-one to blame but themselves as there is a HUGE sign just before each one to say it's there!!

As for the other drivel, the very few people in France who are interested in Brexit were embarrassed for us initially that the UK could make sure a poor decision based on the lies told during the referendum and are now doubly embarrassed that having made the decision we are totally incompetent in implementing it!!

 

[Lot lover]

There are many wonderful areas of France but I will keep schtum about them.

As for those of you who choose not to visit anymore, that is your privilege.

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[hilldweller]

As for the other drivel, the very few people in France.............

You know, I don't give a toss about what any Frenchman thinks of the UK.

 

[Lot lover]

I assure you that he thinks very little about or of the UK

 

[moulin 87]

You know, I don't give a toss about what any Frenchman thinks of the UK.

I wonder if that is why Mr. Barnier is making such a laughing stock of the UK in these negotiations. I call them negotiations in only the most loosest sense!!!

 

[Lenny HB]

Which weirdly they don't seem to do in their own country

Oh yes they do, normally find its worse in France

 

[Jaws]

As a matter of interest, I do abide by speed limits, especially while in the motorhome, but will admit freely that on occasion I have missed a sign and inadvertently exceeded the posted limit.
I am fairly sure I am not alone in this.
Adding more speed cameras has both plus and minus points.
Drivers often watch the speedo instead of the road.... paranoia sets in !
Anything that causes a distraction is not good.
And while slowing the traffic down is, on the face of it, a good thing, there are several quite well known instances of a uk road speed limit being reduced and the road traffic incidents rising ( fatals reducing to be fair )
Interviewed drivers said that after several miles of 40 ( or 50 ) mph, they more or less switched off and had been driving on auto pilot...again I am sure this is not uncommon

The plus sides are less fossil fuel used and less ( reported ) serious injuries

As a by the by, it has also been discovered that a slower speed limit often results in log jams at pinch points.
Something I find odd, but yes, I have noticed it

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[DDJC]

I love France, but most of the time for us, it a country that we travel through to get to Italy and Austria.

Nevertheless, I can't see that these new cameras are going to bother us much. I've watched the video and apart the understandable aversion to being watched minutely by the state, I'm not sure I really care. We tow a small car on a trailer (or sometimes A Frame) so we are limited to 50 mph. Simple. Put on the cruise control to about 53 (which on our bus is about 50 according to the GPS) and just cruise.

We've got bluetooth handsfree, but frankly unless it is family, we don't talk to anyone when we are touring in the bus.

We do do one thing that is naughty. We use a tablet with a routefinder in the cab. That one would be the one that M. Le Gendarme would look at to make sure we have the speed camera plotting facility turned off. Mrs DDJC (or me if she be driving) however has her phone on her lap and is watching for cameras.

I do have a question if anyone knows. When towing, the little car is snugly behind us. Can the camera even see the car/trailer behind us, as it is far narrower that the bus? And if it can, will it think that our little car is tailgating us!?

 

[busby]

Loved France until this morning. Just received speeding fine for last Oct travelling down the A10..My own fault and very unusual for me to be exceeding 50 mph..May get cruise control fitted..Off over again in a couple of weeks so it has not put me off.First time in 20 years.BUSBY

 

[filopastry]

It warms the heart of my cockles to hear so many decry France, and hopefully it will remain so. For whilst you bypass this gloriously diverse country, its culture, food and customs the more space left for us poor soles who know no better. We will struggle through the huge choice of aires payable and free, just like in the UK, we will force ourselves to eat four course meals including wine and coffee for 15 euros, just like in the UK, but we will also probably occasionally visit Blighty and suffer the disadvantages there so that we may enjoy the comparison. Difference ... we probably won't bleat quite so much.

 

[gus-lopez]

That one would be the one that M. Le Gendarme would look at to make sure we have the speed camera plotting facility turned off.

If he had the right to enter /search your vehicle ,which in 99% of cases they don't , unless the head cook & bottle washer is present ,which isn't likely. So if he asks you state no, end of .Never offer as they have no rights to insist normally.
Unlike spain where they do.

we will force ourselves to eat four course meals including wine and coffee for 15 euros, just like in the UK,

If I could manage more than a 1 course meal anywhere ,even if being paid, I'd be ecstatic. I marvel at what people post for guess the bill. Most would take me a week to eat. I don't know how they eat it ?

 

[laneside]

Well at least we have a choice of running the gauntlet of the speed cameras over here.

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