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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Digital Speed Cameras - Victoria Embankment |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:27
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| I noticed two new high mounted digital speed cameras (not SPECS) on Victoria Embankment near Temple station yesterday. Does anyone know how long they have been there for and if they are active yet? There are no distance lines painted in the road either. Are distance lines required before the cameras... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: A13 Thurrock, Havering, Barking, Dagenham and Aspen Way. |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:22
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Replies: 2
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What ever these camera were, they have all gone this morning.
The suggestion that they were most probably ANPR cameras is probably and hopefully correct, although the amount of data captured in this exercise must be vast! |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: A13 Thurrock, Havering, Barking, Dagenham and Aspen Way. |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 18:02
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| I hope to god that what I think I saw today on my way to and from work was not really what I saw and that there is another explanation. This morning, coming out of the A13 link tunnel onto Aspen Way, Docklands, heading into London, I saw what looked like four forward facing Talivan style cameras mou... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Psychological Warfare |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:30
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Replies: 1
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| So many times I have heard it said that if you don’t speed then you have nothing to worry about. So why am I worried? I got flashed yesterday on my way to work in the Limehouse Link tunnel in East London. The speed limit is 30 mph and my speed at the time was an indicated 28mph and from GPS observat... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: New Zealand roadsigns |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 15:00
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Replies: 20
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| A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I can remember when the first speed cameras were introduced. I can also remember seeing my very first gatso camera and thinking.. "if there is a camera here then the road must be dangerous".. so I was particularly careful on that piece of road. With the thous... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: That time of year again. |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 14:59
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Replies: 14
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| Just a quick follow up.. In the time since I made this post, I have seen the same several times more, and on every occasion he has been driving in exactly the same manner. The last time I saw him, earlier this week, he was again approaching the same speed camera, but this time he wheelied at about 8... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: That time of year again. |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 19:22
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Replies: 14
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| FJSRiDER You'll want a read through this recently published document. Wow.. there are a few gems hidden away in there! One of the respondents to the questionnaire who wished to remain anonymous attached a letter to their questionnaire that summarised the feelings of many of riders: ‘I find that the... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: That time of year again. |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 23:49
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Replies: 14
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| I ride a motorcycle a total of 50 miles a day to and from work all year round. I only missed about 10 days over the last year because of snow or the threat of it. However, it is now that time of year when those who only ride during the warmer, drier months, start get their bike out of the garage, wa... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed cameras for wheelchairs! |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 18:38
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| On the BBC website, a follow up to this story quotes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4371431.stm "Hell's grannies" is the nickname given to the worst users of the machines, which are driven by 100,000 Britons. Last year, seven motorised wheelchair users died in crashes and 402 were involved ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: 100 drivers a day caught by new 'temporary' SPECS |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:55
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| When these cameras were first put in place. TFL made a great fuss in the news and on the TV saying that they were "not out to catch people... " etc etc.. and that they had put up a speed indication board about 100 yards in front of the cameras to warn drivers of their speed. If my memory serves me c... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Motorists, rise up and slow down! |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 19:20
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Right or wrong? |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 20:04
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| I have to say that I am absolutely 100% in favour of police discretion, and have been lucky enough to have been lectured in "that tone of voice" once or twice. In this case though, there are two things in Ian's post that make me think that the driver in this case might just have got away with a litt... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Staffing expansion ban for partnerships |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:49
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Replies: 12
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| Speed trap bosses had aimed to erect up to 180 new cameras at blackspots. They claimed this would stop more than 40 deaths and serious injuries in the capital each year. They claim that 180 cameras would save 40 KSIs, or in other words that each camera is worth a saving of 0.22 KSI/year. With at le... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Improving Road Safety?? |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 00:28
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Replies: 4
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| We had a leaflet delivered through our door this weekend entitled: "A New Plan for Local Transport for Thurrock - We Want Your Views". Very good I thought, finally some consultation on the absolutely crap road planning that the local authority has put in over the last few years. The "Your Views" par... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed Cameras Cause Deaths |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 16:48
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Replies: 95
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| As I said in a post some time ago, no matter how good a driver you are can you absolutely guarantee that at any given moment at any time that you are not breaking the speed limit. If not you are at risk of getting caught on camera. I asked this question of “basingwerk”. I never got an answer. Becau... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Police to probe use of bogus speed trap |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 16:20
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Replies: 12
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| Roger Vincent of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said: "We must await the outcome of the police investigation. "But as a general rule we would not advise people to put up fake speed cameras as they may have the potential to distract drivers."....... This is a view echoed by the Ha... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Screen Pillar Obscuration |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 22:16
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Replies: 18
Views: 10468
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SafeSpeed wrote: Biker-Russ wrote: I had an example of this last week.. Do you know what car it was Russ? (make / model?)
Paul,
I can't be 100% sure of the model, but it was definitely a fairly new Vauxhall, possibly a Corsa.
Thanks,
Russ |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Screen Pillar Obscuration |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 17:15
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Replies: 18
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| I had an example of this last week.. Passing through the town centre, I approached a large roundabout. The road to my right was clear, so I could have gone straight on.. However, I saw a car approaching the next entry to the roundabout. I saw the person driving look right, but I knew she had not see... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Upper Thames Street - London |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 19:31
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Replies: 1
Views: 2066
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A sign appealing for witnesses to a road accident where a pedestrian was killed appeared on this road yesterday.
The sign is less than 100 yards past a SPECS enforced 20mph limit, and 50 yards before a standard 30mph limit Gatso.
And they say Speed Cameras save lives??
Russ |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Street Lighting - again |
| Biker-Russ |
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 14:28
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Replies: 2
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| I made a post a little while back concerning the street lighting on the A13 in West Thurrock. I sent an e-mail to the Highways Agency, and received no reply... Anyway, I got a lift home from work the other day, and decided just for fun to count how many non-working street lights I passed on the jour... |
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