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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Speed cameras fail to catch bad drivers |
| Martin C |
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:13
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| Speeding is a manufactured "crime" and outlaws intelligent discretion. From Henry Porter's Observer column (29 Oct) about proliferating legislation and the encroaching police state: The government regards us not just as wedded to too many vices - smoking, speeding, drinking, eating unhealt... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Radical new successful approach from Europe |
| Martin C |
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 19:07
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Replies: 40
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| Was led to this forum by a link in an excellent posting by Rewolf on another SS forum - Traffic Lights, Rip Them Out! Some really good stuff here. I too sometimes dream of a Hampstead cycle tunnel, oh, and a lift to take me up to my son's place. Agree of course with Philip Booth about shared space b... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Traffic Lights - rip them out |
| Martin C |
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 18:18
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Replies: 22
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| Your intelligent (Siemens?) system is certainly the one I'd look at AFTER I'd scrapped ALL controls and seen if/where they proved essential. But maybe, just maybe, they wouldn't be needed at all. Then all those overpaid traffic policymakers, managers and wardens could go out and find constructive wo... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Traffic Lights - rip them out |
| Martin C |
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:09
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Replies: 22
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| PS The rule book tells us to enter a junction before the junction is clear of traffic that's already there. Would you try to enter a phone box before the person inside had left? That's how fatuous the rule book is. If the only priority rule was the common law one of first-come, first-served, like th... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Traffic Lights - rip them out |
| Martin C |
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 09:59
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| All good stuff. My hunch, which I hope to test one of these days, possibly during the course of a TV series, is that if we were free to filter in turn, we wouldn't need lights at all. Volume of traffic can be a drama, but it beomes a crisis when controls are added. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Traffic Lights - rip them out |
| Martin C |
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 08:53
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Don't blame the guy who was slow off the mark. Blame the system.
More anon. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Traffic Lights - rip them out |
| Martin C |
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 18:05
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Replies: 22
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| Hi, this is Martin Cassini, who wrote the Telegraph piece and made In Your Car No-one Can Hear You Scream! (on YouTube.com). Thank you for your postings - much appreciated, and thank you, Paul, for your campaigning zeal and for starting this forum. Most of you echo my thoughts. I know the Bar Hill r... |
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