stop moanin about speed cameras.
06 November 2006, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Suresh
Just in case it is a serious question rather than a troll .. 
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Anway, how dare you suggest I'm a troll Suresh !
07 November 2006, 02:38 AM
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Originally Posted by j4ckos mate
if your inmferring he did it
it is a criminal offence,.
but aloso obscenely stupid to destroy something that will get rebuilt again out of his own taxes.
it is a criminal offence,.
but aloso obscenely stupid to destroy something that will get rebuilt again out of his own taxes.
Originally Posted by j4ckos mate
he is the same as the dicks that smash up bus shelters
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07 November 2006, 02:42 AM
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Originally Posted by j4ckos mate
if you are stupid enough not to notice a big box on a tall pole right by the side of the road, you wont see a child there, or an old dear or a dog etc
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07 November 2006, 07:18 AM
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What an interesting subject ..........
We all break the law on speeding, its just so difficult to stick exactly within the law. I try to be as law abiding as possible but the cameras are money making machines and have nothing (or at least very little) to do with safety.
Just wait until all A and B roads are 40 or 50. Its coming to Roads near you, soon.
The new limits are being introduced along with road charging so as to make it not worthwhile in avoiding Motorways and Trunk road tolls. So where's the safety aspect there?
We all break the law on speeding, its just so difficult to stick exactly within the law. I try to be as law abiding as possible but the cameras are money making machines and have nothing (or at least very little) to do with safety.
Just wait until all A and B roads are 40 or 50. Its coming to Roads near you, soon.
The new limits are being introduced along with road charging so as to make it not worthwhile in avoiding Motorways and Trunk road tolls. So where's the safety aspect there?
07 November 2006, 08:05 AM
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Future road tolls/pay as you go/congestion charging has nothing to do with safety but everything to do with extracting more money out of the motorist. Its supposidly a method to reduce congestion and green house gas emmissions and to get people out of their cars and onto public transport. It won't even replace road tax.
Its a sure fire win for the Government, people need to use cars and they know this, either for private use (try getting your weekly shopping home on public transport!!) or for commercial use. Costs of goods will increase and business' will charge it back to the general public cover the increase in costs for transporation and distribution. So you potentially get charged twice.
The cameras have been put in place on the proviso that they are there solely to prevent accidents. Governement research have now shown that these cameras are ineffective at reducing accidents and in some cases inaccurate, but will they abolish them, like f*ck they will!! It doesn't bother me as much that the fact that people get caught, what really bothers me is the fact that despite the recent research, they will still continue to use them as a means to get more money out of the general public and will continue to install more of these cash cow cameras by the roadside.
Its a sure fire win for the Government, people need to use cars and they know this, either for private use (try getting your weekly shopping home on public transport!!) or for commercial use. Costs of goods will increase and business' will charge it back to the general public cover the increase in costs for transporation and distribution. So you potentially get charged twice.
The cameras have been put in place on the proviso that they are there solely to prevent accidents. Governement research have now shown that these cameras are ineffective at reducing accidents and in some cases inaccurate, but will they abolish them, like f*ck they will!! It doesn't bother me as much that the fact that people get caught, what really bothers me is the fact that despite the recent research, they will still continue to use them as a means to get more money out of the general public and will continue to install more of these cash cow cameras by the roadside.
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07 November 2006, 08:59 AM
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Originally Posted by r32
Just wait until all A and B roads are 40 or 50. Its coming to Roads near you, soon.
07 November 2006, 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by OllyK
A610 Dual carriage way from Junc 26 of the M1 to Ikea - 40mph rising to 50mph. It's already happened! Oh and they had to include the suicide of somebody jumping off the bridge over the A610 to get the KSI figures up to justify the reduction in speed
30mph!
Another at 40, reduced from 50 (again, hard to see why, except maybe for one short stretch where people can do U turns, but even that is questionable). There is also an NSL A road, that has recently been reduced to 40. I have absolutely no idea why, it's straight, well lit, no side turn off etc..Ns04
07 November 2006, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by OllyK
A610 Dual carriage way from Junc 26 of the M1 to Ikea - 40mph rising to 50mph. It's already happened! Oh and they had to include the suicide of somebody jumping off the bridge over the A610 to get the KSI figures up to justify the reduction in speed
07 November 2006, 12:37 PM
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i have a picasso and an e class
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07 November 2006, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul3446
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07 November 2006, 01:44 PM
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I don't think most of the issue is the existence of speed cameras but sometimes where they are put to deliberately trap motorists, if my Wife's 65 year old aunt who drives very cautiously and slowly has six points then there is something amiss.
Anyway, since when were you averse to breaking rules......
You should see him driving round in the Silver E class, smoking the streets of South Manchester thinking he is Tony Soprano.
Anyway, since when were you averse to breaking rules......
You should see him driving round in the Silver E class, smoking the streets of South Manchester thinking he is Tony Soprano.
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07 November 2006, 02:21 PM
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Talking of traps, how about Gwent's lastest wheeze?
Her's a new "trick" from the scum in Gwent. Travelling down the A40 between Ross on Wye and Monmouth there is a little village called Pencraig. The village is sited each side of a dual carriageway that used to be NSL. The section through the village is now 50 MPH. Travelling Westbound this little hamlet is approached by a very long hill (uphill) and a gentle LH bend at the top at the top. On Friday night travelling down to Abergavenny to visit my mother in Hospital I noticed a new flashing sign o0n the bend that said 50 and then a photo of a camera. Fair enough I slowed down and drove sedately through the village. I also noticed a similar sign on the other side of the carriageway for East bound drivers.
Driving back today - as I approached thr village the sign had been switched off and Lo and Behold a couple of Gwents "finest" are sitting there, parked on a grass verge in a local Talivan nicking all and sundry. If the sign had been switched on probably all drivers would have reacted and slowed down so by turning the sign off it just becomes yet another revenue generating excercise
Driving back today - as I approached thr village the sign had been switched off and Lo and Behold a couple of Gwents "finest" are sitting there, parked on a grass verge in a local Talivan nicking all and sundry. If the sign had been switched on probably all drivers would have reacted and slowed down so by turning the sign off it just becomes yet another revenue generating excercise
07 November 2006, 06:24 PM
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Originally Posted by j4ckos mate
if your inmferring he did it
it is a criminal offence,.
but aloso obscenely stupid to destroy something that will get rebuilt again out of his own taxes.
he is the same as the dicks that smash up bus shelters
it is a criminal offence,.
but aloso obscenely stupid to destroy something that will get rebuilt again out of his own taxes.
he is the same as the dicks that smash up bus shelters
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