Speed traps on the way into the port of Calais

[MasterDabber]

Just a warning. When I was coming in the ferry port at Calais yesterday there was a speed trap just near the very entrance to the ferry terminal, just before you get to passport control in the 80kph area.

There were several gendarmes and two Porsche Carreras which had previously overtaken me on the autoroute had been pulled over.

I was a bit lucky myself as I was probably borderline on the limit but was somewhat shielded from them by a lorry.

Although I've seen many speed traps on the approaching roads/autoroutes to calais I've never seen one just by the ferry terminal before.... Be careful!

 

[Navy Boy]

Cheers MasterDabber

I'm bound that way on Thur PM so I'll keep an eye out for it. It's very easy to do 100-110 Km/hr there so it'll be a good place for them to earn some revenue.

 

[MasterDabber]

Yes, you take that sweeping bend into the terminal which I think is still at 110kph, then it drops to 80kph and by then you're thinking about finding your passport etc and it's so easy to be over that 80kph limit.

Additionally, on the autoroute near to Calais there were two mobile speed traps.

One was a parked up motorbike gendarme. I was coming down a hill and saw him sort of jogging towards his bike (in a layby).... my brakes went on as did everyone elses.
He came zooming past me in a few seconds and pulled over a Megane that had overtaken me a little earlier at about 130kph (I would guess). The normal speed limit on that stretch is 130kph but it was drizzling rain so the limit was 110kph.
So it looks like they were enforcing the "RAINING SPEED LIMIT".

Again, I was lucky as I'd been travelling pretty much on the normal speed limit for most of the journey but at tat particular time I had a sort of premonition... strange really.

 

[Wapping]

It is regularly there.

Les plods often sit in the triangular concrete dividing barrier, where the road splits. Left to the port entry, right to wherever...

Quite clever, I always thought......Nice straight road, a bit of a brow, Brit's in a hurry pour la bateau....kerching!

 

[MasterDabber]

It is regularly there.

Les plods often sit in the triangular concrete dividing barrier, where the road splits. Left to the port entry, right to wherever...

Quite clever, I always thought......Nice straight road, a bit of a brow, Brit's in a hurry pour la bateau....kerching!

Interesting, I must have been lucky in the past to never have seen them there before. Just this year this was my 6th trip through Calais so I think I've been pushing my luck for exactly the reasons you give.

 

[patzx12]

I was only stopped once in dozens of trips. I was on the ZX12R doing $%&*
on a B road 2 motobike cops, they let me off it was about 5 years ago.
They used that radar kit looks like a pair of binoculars. it was a straight bit of road. They nailed me from such a long distance away I would never of had a chance to spot them and slow down.