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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: The Madness spreads to Bristol |
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 20:01
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| I'm just thinking about the irony of the situation - declaring to your insurance company that you are not going to break the law by speeding could invalidate your insurance, declaring to them that you are going to break the law by speeding wouldn't. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: The Madness spreads to Bristol |
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 19:34
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stackmonkey wrote: the difference is that breaking a speed limit does not invalidate your insurance
I daren't ask them, dare you? |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: The Madness spreads to Bristol |
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 18:31
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Question?
If I intend to break a speed limit, should I inform my insurer first to make sure I'm covered for this eventuality? |
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Forum: Opinions Topic: Why have most people joined here? |
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 21:53
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| Yes, but the enforcement of every law needs to be judged on its utility - there is no point in enforcing laws for their own sake, especially if such a manner of enforcement is in a wider sense counter-productive. So who chooses which laws to enforce and when? Is it really sustainable to have so man... |
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Forum: Opinions Topic: Why have most people joined here? |
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 21:49
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| As a speed limit is by definition only a very broad-brush definition of what is safe and unsafe, it needs to be enforced in the same spirit, not as if it were Holy Writ. In effect, although this is a concept that can't really be expressed in law, speed limits should be enforced as if they were stro... |
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Forum: Opinions Topic: Why have most people joined here? |
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 21:35
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| .......... what I mean is that if people looked after the important things like, consideration, observation, attention, etc etc then their speed will be appropriate for the conditions regardless of the posted limit. I take what you mean about limits perhaps being a guide, but there are many variabl... |
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Forum: Opinions Topic: Why have most people joined here? |
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 19:49
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| Thanks for the extremely useful and constructive comments regarding trolls :roll:. Are we all agreed that speed limits are a necessary evil? Yes, they should be appropriate, but presumably we do need them? Assuming we need them, don't they need enforcing or they will be meaningless? So how do we enf... |
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Forum: Opinions Topic: Why have most people joined here? |
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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 19:12
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| Sorry if some people think I'm a troll, I'm certainly not (and thanks for your words on that smeggy). I am a traffic engineering professional, with a genuine interest in improving road safety. I have come here to discuss and debate which may or may not mean that I agree. I'd still rather not say whe... |
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Forum: Opinions Topic: Why have most people joined here? |
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 23:59
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| Councillors do, legally, set speed limits. They are supposed to take the advice of professional highway engineers and the police into account, but there are plenty of examples of them overriding it. And an engineer may often feel that toeing the political line will help with his career. If he kept ... |
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Forum: Opinions Topic: Why have most people joined here? |
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 23:40
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| Sorry, just a quick reply (and I don't know how to embed quotes) Councillors don't set speed limits, engineers in association with the police do. Yes, there is sometimes political pressure to set a speed limit, but any engineer worth their salt will fight this vigorously (although I'm not saying it ... |
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Forum: Opinions Topic: Why have most people joined here? |
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 22:03
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| I disagree, again a lot of it seems to be down to people who are insistent that they want to drive faster than the posted limit – why this mentality? It seems to be a kind of matcho thing – “I’m a safe driver, I am ok breaking the limit, I know better than those who set the limit”. It’s not as if it... |
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Forum: Opinions Topic: Why have most people joined here? |
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 19:36
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| Thanks for all your replies, they are appreciated and I can understand where you are coming from in most cases. I acknowledge that you promote 'safe speed' which may be above or below a limit, but I still feel there is an obsession with excess speed - why is it such a big issues? Why can't you drive... |
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Forum: Opinions Topic: Why have most people joined here? |
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 22:45
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| It just seems a bit biased. People in road safety jobs have dedicated their careers to improving road safety - quite a commitment. They (mostly) care very much and genuinely do their best amongst the (often fickle) motorist and political whims. |
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Forum: Opinions Topic: Why have most people joined here? |
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 21:35
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| Hi, a newbie with an interest in road safety - sorry if this isn't in the right section. I was wondering why most people join here. Forgive me that I haven't read everything, and I have no doubt that most people do have an interest in improving road safety, but it's hard not to get the impression th... |
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