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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed cams on the railways. |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 22:58
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Exactly.
But some drivers seem to think that lives lost on the roads have more value than lives lost on the rail roads.
That, somehow, a life lost on a rail road is worth it.
Even though the benefit it is weighted against is the same passenger or goods milage as on the roads!
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed cams on the railways. |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 22:09
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However, if the "if it saves just one life" argument is going to be applied to cars, then I am quite happy to seriously argue that it should also be applied to "trians".
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed cams on the railways. |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 22:04
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| Is this guy real, if this was school he'd have a big red line through that lot. All he's doing is showing how the same logic that people apply to judging speeding involving cars can be applied to trains. IMO You cannot apply the same logic to speeding cars as you can to speeding trains, purely beca... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed cams on the railways. |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 20:08
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Yeah!
Don't be judgemental about cross-dressers!
However cross they get.
Or the PC WPC Laura Norder will get you.
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Drink Drive limits |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 20:05
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Everyone already convinced?
Still working through that long list of links?
Or just not interested in the truth!
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed cams on the railways. |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 19:46
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PeterE wrote: lauren o'dare wrote: PPS Lauren is a girls' name.
But I won't hold it against you. Indeed it is. Does that mean you're a girl, then? 
I'm also a Senior Citizen.
82 if I remember correctly.
But I don't suppose that'll stop you trying to manhandle me.
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed cams on the railways. |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 19:17
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| Sorry you seem to place an emphasis on drinking Do I? do you have a problem with it yourself? No. But from your earlier post you seemed to have problems combining it with posting. Anyway we where discussing speed and safety. Were we? I thought we were discussing why motorists think it is OK for the... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed cams on the railways. |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 17:50
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I think that whatever the drink-post limit on this forum:
Someone has exceeded it.
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed cams on the railways. |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 15:33
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| Jeez Is it any wonder Georgeda and his/her/its ilk always get the upper hand? Is it any wonder we have 6,000 sCams but a fraction of the motorways or national standard roads per head, per car, per acre, per GDP, per anything you like, in comparison with any other developed nation? Is it any wonder y... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed cams on the railways. |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 15:23
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| But your not comparing apples with apples are you? A pedestrian is commiting a criminal offence by being on a motorway/rail line/runway, where as they aren't on Southall High Street. Right, I'm with you now: If they made it legal to trespass on the railways you'd solve the problem of deaths on the ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed cams on the railways. |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 15:14
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| And effectively the same applies on motorways, which are dedicated roads for motor vehicles where pedestrians are banned, and you can drive in a reasonable expectation of not encountering a pedestrian. That is the road comparison, not all-purpose roads which pedestrians have a right to use. Sorry. ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed cams on the railways. |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 15:04
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Replies: 38
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| Is this guy real, if this was school he'd have a big red line through that lot. All he's doing is showing how the same logic that people apply to judging speeding involving cars can be applied to trains. IMO You cannot apply the same logic to speeding cars as you can to speeding trains, purely beca... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed cams on the railways. |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 14:46
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| I'm not at all sure that is what he's doing, given that from his past record he seems to have an obsessive hatred of railways. Perhaps he was frightened by a train when he was a small child. Care to present any evidence of that? If you must know I really like trains. And have very fond and happy ch... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed cams on the railways. |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 14:35
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| Well, sorry, if Twenty's Plenty on the real roads, in that case Ten's Tempting Tragedy on the rail roads. They can start slowing down miles back from ANY point at which someone might get onto the tracks. To 10mph. After all: If it saves just one life! Presumably you will be advocating the same on a... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed cams on the railways. |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 10:30
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| I doubt this tragic incident will have the loonies calling for speed cams on the railways. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4201632.stm Why should it? Was the train exceeding the speed limit for that stretch of track? A mother and her two children have died after she jumped in front of a H... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Drink Drive limits |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 20:15
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Gixxer wrote: Something wrong with putting all that lot in just the one post then Lauren?
Yeah:
People complain about their inability to handle any post longer than a soundbite.
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Drink Drive limits |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 22:28
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Actually George, I'm rapidly (I hope you won't hold that against me) coming round to your way of thinking:
Most drivers shouldn't be trusted out on the road unsupervised.
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Drink Drive limits |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 22:24
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| There is I believe a school of thought that the drink-drive limits, like the speed limits are arbitory and should be relaxed. I'm not sure if I subscribe to that train of thought but would be very interested in other peoples views. Well, if you're really interested in other people's views, here's a... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Drink Drive limits |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 22:17
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Of course, you could all always fight back by piping up meekly at the back of the hall with a single "Rubbish".
If you time it right and strike lucky you could score one against him.
Just one, though!
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Drink Drive limits |
| lauren o'dare |
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 22:14
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| Why speeding will never become as socially unacceptable as drink-driving Can I suggest that people repost their posts with alcohol substituted for speed, drinking for speeding, zero tolerance for speed limits and speed cameras for (random) breath testing. And then read this: First They Came for the... |
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