driftingaway

First week in AD, I'm driving about at the speed limit and people are racing past me, even on Corniche etc which has those average speed cameras all the way along. Do they just not give a damn about fines or am I missing something?

mikewot

You're missing the limit above which the camera goes off. In Dubai 20 Kph above the limit (normally). Unless you are the VERY important person to whom limits do not apply. I.E. you have sufficient wasta to have the 'offence' expunged from the records.

Beakersful

If you come over from KSA where the flash goes off 10kph over you have to adjust consciously. But still, there's those psycho SUV drivers trying to ram you off the road even when you're doing 140kph.

busybee2

yep you can go 20 over signed limit but not on the tunnels

Beakersful

Unless you're from KSA, in which case you get flashed repeatedly after failing to see the speed drop on those stupidly small electronic signs but never end up out of pocket

al dente

And those cameras aren't average cameras. Or are they?

OriginalSunshine

In Oman, the people speeding are normally those driving their relatives cars.

hnd

Ah, then hardly anybody is driving their own car

OriginalSunshine

Basically, yes.
I sold my convertible to a lady who already had 6 cars because her sons and daughters borrow them (to reduce the insurance costs). She laughed when I had a 10 OMR fine, as she said she regularly would get 200-500 OMR each year she renewed the mulkiah.

busybee2

the new ones will be i suspect when they switch them on.

al dente

Well i once had a static ticket off a tunnel one and i don't average 80.

Beakersful

In the tunnels though there's one point the speed drops from 80 to 60kph with little warning and the overhead electronic number signs are completed useless since the ring around the numbers is too small, thereby obscuring clear reading of the numbers. I've been flashed twice in one location because of that.

driftingaway

Thanks all. Will bear all this in mind some of the speed limits in tunnels (60kph in an empty tunnel) are maddening, crawling slowly through a 4 lane tunnel on your own!

gottheTshirt

If you drive at a safe and sensible speed then everybody will drive faster than you regardless of the speed limits.

Beakersful

If the speedlimit on service roads is 70kph, 90kph on main arteries in the city, 120kph on the highway, then exactly what need is there for a vehicle with more than a 1.3l engine?

And why do young Toyota Yaris owners in KSA feel 200kph is the appropriate way to get from city to city?

My greenie friends are 'debating' the looming excessive wattage kettle ban right now whilst too many over here have 5.7l SUV's and secretly thinking of the 6.2l models.