MORE than 11,000 speeding drivers snapped by M62 cameras in our area in 2011 – a 1,100% rise on 2010:

whatyadoinsucka: “Well, that’s no surprise. I don’t understand motorists who have been fined. Why drive over a 50mph limit if you know yellow cameras are tracking your average speed over a distance? The signs are well displayed. No excuses.”

Wadski: “I wonder how many ‘road workers’ were on site when these 11,000 people were caught? On the stretch up from Brighouse to Ainley Top I have yet to see a worker even though the cameras are active.

“The cameras should only be on when there are workers there to protect. Keep the speed limit in place 24 hours to prevent confusion but only enforce when there is someone there to protect. I wonder whether the cameras are in place to charge motorists for the actual improvements?”

MartinE: “Nice little earner for the government. Nothing to do with road safety. The camera safety partnership cannot say these cameras reduce crashes just as the police force has never been able to say a patrolling bobby prevented numerous burglaries. We need more police officers patrolling the motorways. Seems strange this high number may coincide with the demise of the Police Motorway Unit.”

Chrisj: “Miles of narrowed lanes, traffic cones and barriers, but no sign of any work in progress. I can understand the need for reduced speed limits while there are actually workers on the side of the motorway or where the lanes have been drastically reduced in width, but this doesn’t appear to be the case.

“We are always told that congestion and traffic delays cost the country billions every year and in the UK we seem to have major routes constantly suffering from endless roadworks which appear to achieve nothing. Why not have the work going on 24/7 to get things finished and traffic flowing again?

“I imagine the main reason people got caught was because they are so used to travelling at 10mph to 30mph from Ainley Top through to just before the M621 junction they just kept with the traffic flow and as speeds began to pick up passed the 50mph limit before they realised they were still in the restricted area.”

grumpyguts: “Any speed limit should be applicable to road conditions at the time and not a blanket figure 24/7 – that is why these limits get broken. On the M62, the speed limit should revert to normal when nobody is working and traffic flows freely. Dot matrix signs should be in place before the limited zone to advise whether the temporary limit is in force or not.”