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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 19:30
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| Hmm, yeah. I don't recall ever seeing a tank in the city driving on a public road. I see them fairly often on the Dorset Way. Although I think they tend to be APCs rather than tanks, but still... And I wouldn't call it a city road. Yet. They seem to be destroying it so it might become one. Stranges... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 19:23
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| Stress comes mostly from the sheer volume of motor-traffic on the roads. More daft or perceived pressures which people foist on themselves or even have foisted on them by bosses in the case of the sales reps. :roll: One example from collegues in neigbouring Northumberland. Woman driving kids to New... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: A trick of the light. |
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 14:51
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| I was driving along an A road at 6pm this evening in poor daylight conditions and in torrential rain. I was keeping to the 30mph limit and as I checked my rear-view mirror. That'd be the same speed as you'd drive along the same road in ideal conditions then. I saw two white flashes coming from the ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 22:30
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| And if someone drove a tank over your car, it'd be your fault for not having as much protection as them? It would if I decided to drive across Salisbury Plain when the tanks were driving around. The tank driver would not expect someone to suddenly drive a car in front of his tank and I would get sq... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 22:23
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| To be honest, this is what I'm seeing in this thread. http://www.btinternet.com/~michael.banfield/trainz/forum_pictures/dondare_flow.jpg Sometimes your replies indicate that you have not understood. By all means disagree with me, but don't disagree with something I've not said. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 17:43
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| And if someone drove a tank over your car, it'd be your fault for not having as much protection as them? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 16:47
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| Stress comes mostly from the sheer volume of motor-traffic on the roads. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 16:35
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| http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/datatablespublications/personal/factsheets/2005/cyclefactsheet But this is my main point: "... those who have to drive or who choose to drive should appreciate that pedestrians and cyclists have as much right to be able to make their journey safely as they d... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 16:33
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 09:38
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| Have you noticed the extraordinary reduction in traffic during the school holidays? How many school runs really need a car? Most are less than a mile. Even the daily commute to work does not normally involve a motorway, I don't know what the average commute is but I'd bet that half are under five mi... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 09:16
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| There are plenty of people who cannot walk or cycle, and no-one should be forced to. I'd like to point out again that I do not agree with the way BRAKE have interpreted their results, the conclusions they have drawn, their aims or their methods. But I do think that at least three quarters of the car... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 15:39
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| Fear of traffic has been generated not by reasoned analysis of the facts but by campaigning pressure groups. The direct result is that fewer people dare to go out unless they're wearing a car for protection. Attempts to disprove that walking and cycling inevitably result in death have not worked, e... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 15:02
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BottyBurp wrote: Dondare wrote: My roadcraft is as good as it can be... Is it? I bow down to thee... 
Thanks.
This site really does have a smiley for everything. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 15:00
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 14:37
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| The 20 mph zones in Barnet are neither enforced nor observed. One of them seems to be entirely in the wrong place. I have never seen any form of engineered traffic calming that doesn't directly give rise to poor driving practices. So surely the money wasted on a scheme that is neither enforced or o... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 14:35
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| Only if more people started travelling. If the number of journeys was the same, but more people walked and cycled, the amount of motor traffic would go down. This might be what the burghers of Portsmouth are hoping for. The roads would be operating below their maximum carrying capacity. Motorists s... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 14:26
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| The 20 mph zones in Barnet are neither enforced nor observed . One of them seems to be entirely in the wrong place. Probably because the zones are deemed stupid/un-necessary and worthy of contempt... As I said, one seems to be in the wrong place. No-one takes any notice of it, not even careful driv... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 14:18
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| The 20 mph zones in Barnet are neither enforced nor observed. One of them seems to be entirely in the wrong place. I have never seen any form of engineered traffic calming that doesn't directly give rise to poor driving practices. So surely the money wasted on a scheme that is neither enforced or o... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 13:38
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The 20 mph zones in Barnet are neither enforced nor observed.
One of them seems to be entirely in the wrong place.
I have never seen any form of engineered traffic calming that doesn't directly give rise to poor driving practices. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Portsmouth: New 20mph limit 'will save lives' |
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:32
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| Both of these will lead to clearer streets, cleaner air Nope. It will probably lead to higher CO2 emissions and more pollution in general - particularly on streets where the traffic previously flowed freely at 30 - 40 mph. A road has it's maximum carrying capacity at slightly below 20 mph. I can't ... |
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