Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 2:37 am
SiDaBa... it was just one of those things, today, down the A5.. just wanted to truck along at what would probably be bang on the limit (car starts to get noisy after indicated 62-63, which after various adjustments is closer to real 60). People dawdling ahead through mild bends and holding up everyone else in a queue behind with no care to NOT flooring it randomly on straights, whilst those behind as i tried to overtake and then resume cruising wanted to do 70 or more 
... whom I *tried* to accomodate.
((Yes, you in the red Rover 45 that held up a half mile line at 40mph for a solid 10 minutes, including two horseboxes and a knackered ford 3 ton flatbed, and flashed lights at everyone who beeped whilst passing... you in the Rolls with no care for the peons behind... and Mr Toyota Man of the oddly variable speed, 25 in the mild twisties, 7-effing-5 on the straights))
Oh well... for every person thinking they're driving at the right speed there's a "codger" in the way in front and a "madman" a few feet off the bumper behind. Both thinking the same thing
(does it make any difference if you actually are driving the limit though?)
Still going to get behind any national protest against the cats eye and mile-off cameras though, that sort of trickery just isnt on. There's no need for it and the money would be far, far, far better spent elsewhere seeing as it's more or less proved now that camera speed "enforcement" has near-zero impact on safety, especially compared to, say, equivelent money spent mildly re-engineering a blackspot.
(Here's an idea - there are almost 2 million camera speeding fines sent out every year (figure that as a percentage of the driving population and feel your jaw drop, it's only set to increase). That's a hell of a lot of administration even if it's automated with just some auditors and techs about. If everyone, or even 10% say, refuses to pay their fines however, or does gonzo things in the paying... eg fifty cheques for one pound each instead of one for fifty (preferably just refusing to pay on the grounds "this is stupid" for any offense demonstrably not the act of a nutter)... think of the headache that would cause. Enough that some traffic officers may come back on the beat?
Or possibly an organised lot of 10,000 motorists pissed off enough to do "something" with the equipment. You don't need to damage the things remember... if you can block them off in a way that won't easily be detected for a while that's enough... thats still a lot of work, a lot of man-hours to be paid for, to put it right)
... whom I *tried* to accomodate.((Yes, you in the red Rover 45 that held up a half mile line at 40mph for a solid 10 minutes, including two horseboxes and a knackered ford 3 ton flatbed, and flashed lights at everyone who beeped whilst passing... you in the Rolls with no care for the peons behind... and Mr Toyota Man of the oddly variable speed, 25 in the mild twisties, 7-effing-5 on the straights))
Oh well... for every person thinking they're driving at the right speed there's a "codger" in the way in front and a "madman" a few feet off the bumper behind. Both thinking the same thing
(does it make any difference if you actually are driving the limit though?)Still going to get behind any national protest against the cats eye and mile-off cameras though, that sort of trickery just isnt on. There's no need for it and the money would be far, far, far better spent elsewhere seeing as it's more or less proved now that camera speed "enforcement" has near-zero impact on safety, especially compared to, say, equivelent money spent mildly re-engineering a blackspot.
(Here's an idea - there are almost 2 million camera speeding fines sent out every year (figure that as a percentage of the driving population and feel your jaw drop, it's only set to increase). That's a hell of a lot of administration even if it's automated with just some auditors and techs about. If everyone, or even 10% say, refuses to pay their fines however, or does gonzo things in the paying... eg fifty cheques for one pound each instead of one for fifty (preferably just refusing to pay on the grounds "this is stupid" for any offense demonstrably not the act of a nutter)... think of the headache that would cause. Enough that some traffic officers may come back on the beat?
Or possibly an organised lot of 10,000 motorists pissed off enough to do "something" with the equipment. You don't need to damage the things remember... if you can block them off in a way that won't easily be detected for a while that's enough... thats still a lot of work, a lot of man-hours to be paid for, to put it right)
what u been doing ??