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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: re incarnated Brunstrom |
| nedsram |
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 23:39
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| I think they tried that in New Zealand. It led to a large increase in the accident rate, and was subsequently scrapped. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Police to repay £18,000 in speeding fines Nth Wales |
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:44
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| Ringway Road and Ringway Road West near Manchester Airport are partly 40, and partly 50. A couple of years ago, due to some work at the airport requiring traffic to be diverted, they slapped a temporary 30 limit on the 50 stretch, and part of the 40 stretch, and put in a mini roundabout. The origin... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: SPECS on Cat & Fiddle |
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 22:12
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| According to an article in the Macclesfield Times , the whole thing has been a complete fiasco, as bikers are taking a diversion off the A537 and thus avoiding detection. Apparently it's also possible that the bikers are not taking a diversion at all, but that given the location of the cameras, it's... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: New device going up near Gatsos. What is it? |
| nedsram |
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 21:53
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| The new unit is clearly a flash unit. I would say it is to combat flash back caused by sprays such as this one: http://www.phantomplate.com/ by changing the angle there will no longer be a reflection in the direction of the camera. As I said on a similar post ,old what's his name from under the wav... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: New cameras in Stockport |
| nedsram |
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Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 22:23
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| That would be the Victoria Avenue where I was done many years ago by a Gatso. Why this policy of reducing the speed limit to an inappropriately low value, then going to town on enforcement? |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: New cameras in Stockport |
| nedsram |
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Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 20:53
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| Two cameras have appeared on the northbound A6 Buxton Road in Hazel Grove, Stockport, in what was until recently a 40 area, but now reduced to a ridiculous 30. (There are houses on one side, but they are set back behind a service road.) The first camera as you approach from the south is apparently a... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: smoking in your car.. calls to ban it.. |
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 21:57
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| I would say that anyone smoking a cigarette isn't in complete control of their vehicle so they should not smoke and drive. If you can't operate a phone then you can't mess around lighting a cigarette and dropping the ash into the ash tray or out of the window or throwing the fag butt into the road ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: 10% plus 2mph - was your NIP for this or less ? |
| nedsram |
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 19:25
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Anglesey, July 2005. £60 and 3 points for doing 35 in a 30. Well I guess you'd expect it there.  |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Police to repay £18,000 in speeding fines Nth Wales |
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Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 14:40
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| Ringway Road and Ringway Road West near Manchester Airport are partly 40, and partly 50. A couple of years ago, due to some work at the airport requiring traffic to be diverted, they slapped a temporary 30 limit on the 50 stretch, and part of the 40 stretch, and put in a mini roundabout. The origina... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Disappearing Stockport Gatsos |
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 22:36
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| Wow! This road must be so dangerous they had to replace the one Gatso with two Monitrons! I travel on that road every day. The average speed - apart from next to the cameras - is around 65. The odd person doing 50 "because speed kills" tends to cause irritation. The only accidents I'm awa... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Disappearing Stockport Gatsos |
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 08:03
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orange wrote: How long has that 50 limit been there? Long enough to ask the council for before-and-after casualty figures for the road?
The road was opened in 1995. I'm not certain exactly when the limit was reduced, but it must have been around 1997. The cameras went in several years later. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Disappearing Stockport Gatsos |
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Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 21:07
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| I've got some photos of the cameras now. They're not particularly good, as it was dull and raining slightly, and they've been dumbed down to death to meet the size limits. They're clearly monitrons. Anybody know what the blue pole is for? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Disappearing Stockport Gatsos |
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Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 18:07
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graball wrote: That one on the A34 looks like it really needs to be a 50MPH limit....NOT!!
Which must be why they are now in the process of replacing it with two new cameras, one for each direction. 
I'll post a picture tomorrow if I can. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Disappearing Stockport Gatsos |
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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 21:35
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| Blimey? Are they going to use vans? or stealth mobiles? :scratchchin: From what I understand, the long term plan is to monitor vehicles using gps, and install speed limiters. The idea is to locate the car's position, and force compliance with the speed limit as obtained from a national speed limit ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Disappearing Stockport Gatsos |
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Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 22:30
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| From a lot of the camera photos I've seen most of them seem to be located at the bottom of a hill. I'm sure its so you pick up speed without realising and don't have time to readjust, comparision to Irish legislation where the Gardaí can't do their speed checks at the bottom of the hill, has to be ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Intelligent traffic signals that could save scores of lives |
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 21:22
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| Nedsram, I actually live on this road albeit a bit further down in Didsbury. I have often noticed how I seem to be greeted at every junction with a red light - now I know why! I also have the great scenic view from my living room of a red light camera on one of the junctions :roll: Now that '40 - S... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Drivers will have no escape from new speed cameras |
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 21:02
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| Backing up the story, the Times has an editorial Speed Really Does Kill , in which they rebut the following feedback they received: Driving will become so boring that accident rates will increase as more drivers fall asleep. More crashes because drivers will continuously be monitoring their speedome... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Drivers will have no escape from new speed cameras |
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 22:35
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| http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/article4909662.ece Clusters of speed cameras that will monitor drivers’ average speed on all routes across a wide area are to be deployed on hundreds of roads next year. Let me get this right. The financial world is in meltdown, many local authorities face l... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Digital enforcement: 6pts for 45 in 30 - 55 in 40 - 95 in 70 |
| nedsram |
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 20:17
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| http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4837799.ece DRIVERS will be banned after just two convictions if they exceed the speed limit by 15mph in urban areas or 25mph on motorways under a shake-up of road safety laws. Tougher penalties, to be announced next month, will mean drivers get six p... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Experts dispute speed camera claims |
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 20:54
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| Apart from those who have been taken in by the "speed kills" rubbish, it's generally the feeling that speed cameras cause more problems than they solve. The nearest I have come to being smashed up recently was when the woman in front (who had been doing a rather erratic 45 in 50 areas, red... |
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