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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Re-write traffic rules to make streets cycle-friendly |
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Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 13:41
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| TfL wants: a civil offence for drivers to encroach into advanced stop line (ASL) boxes when a traffic signal is red decrimininalise mandatory cycle lane infringements (so they'd become a civil offence?) More cameras and more kerching by the looks of it. It is clear that TfL have an agenda - as one o... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Graduated Licences? |
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Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 01:15
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Replies: 40
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| Even the length of time someone has been driving or the distances they've covered doesn't necessarily prove much. When my former employer moved out of the city centre a lot more colleagues had to drive. Two middle aged ladies each had to do a 20 mile round trip every day (mainly on busy urban M-way)... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Council parking profits soar by 15 per cent |
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Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 08:48
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Replies: 26
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| And just in case we thought it couldn't get any worse... ADMIN added - this is already being discussed here : http://www.safespeed.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=26447 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22993060 So as these cameras weren't legal the council have cancelled all outstand... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Council parking profits soar by 15 per cent |
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Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:20
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| The justification of town centre parking fees can be blamed on lax planning laws decades ago. Councils were, initially, forced to introduce some sort of control is because in the sixties and seventies every town got one or more high rise office blocks that had little or no parking. Most of the staff... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Council parking profits soar by 15 per cent |
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Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 01:24
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| It's all got completely out of hand, and thrown up some crazy rules that no democracy should allow but we just seem to put up with it all. Two examples: In Richmond the council fee for on street parking permits are based not on a vehicles physical size but it emissions. So a permit for your VW Polo ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: The rise of CCTV Road fines |
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Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 18:34
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| http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22867081 As featured on Panorama last night, it looked into the eye popping amounts of cash being generated by local councils by fining drivers for minor moving traffic offences. At the moment councils outside London can only cash in on bus lanes, whereas London borough... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed camera protest |
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 13:14
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Replies: 40
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| Unlike some, this lady intends to do more than ineffectually punching a keyboard: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-11029964 Another classic Non sequitur. Not dissimilar to http://www.safespeed.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=22931 There is a gulf of difference between putting a c... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Biker Advert |
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 00:26
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Replies: 11
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| Yes, "Think Bike" posters are all over the place here as well. However, I believe that they should replace them with "Bikers, Think What You are Doing" posters. .......... Most accidents are "single vehicle" with inexperienced riders just coming off. The figures in: In... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: The Fundamental Difference |
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 23:43
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Replies: 30
Views: 15366
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| Instead of "Was the car over the limit?" the issue should be "Was it dangerous?" This would go a long way to satisfy the complaint that limits are being set inappropriately low in a lot of places. After a tragic fatal accident (where inappropriate or excessive speed played no pa... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Cameras are for detecting speed not preventing accidents |
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 00:37
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Replies: 22
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| ask any copper when was the last time he booked anyone for a 'witness' dangerous or careless offence and the returnI I guarantee would be 'NIL' return. Ah so I imagined being pulled over on the A34 Wilmslow bypass a couple of years ago - though to be fair I only got threatened with a due care. Oh a... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: "Acpo's Mick Giannasi fears speed camera cut risks lives" |
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 00:19
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Replies: 8
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| To be fair to 'Britain's Top Traffic Police Officer' (BBC's description) didn't actually say he "fears speed camera cut risks lives" That was the BBC's header for the piece on the TV news and the headline online. They went on to show an interview with him where he expressed concern that un... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: We won't reveal camera fines because some are switched off, |
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 23:48
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| What is the scientific basis for the 85% rule? Not scientific but consider the A515 limit reduction (now 18 miles of 50mph) of a couple of years ago, and section 34 in a document I download from the DCC website: Derbyshire County Council Meeting of Cabinet Member – Environmental Services 13 Septemb... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed Limiters for Motorcycles |
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 22:15
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Replies: 57
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| Why assume that people cannot 'cope' with all the throttle. If I am overtaking using ALL the throttle is best .... One factor that your average car driver has a bit of trouble getting their heads round is just how jolly quickly even modestly powerful motorbikes can accelerate (I don't know if Speed... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Camera bosses’ anger over sneaky speed trap shots |
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 13:30
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| One of my pet hates is tax payer funded organisations, Gov ministries etc refusing to speak to the people whose taxes they spend. You know the sort of thing, we get a lot of it on the Today programme on Radio 4 - "We ask for a comment from the Dept of Obfuscation but no one was available."... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Camera warning for motorists |
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 09:13
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| In reality of course no road 'justifies' any camera, as it will never address the root cause of an accident since 'speeding' is never a root cause in the first place. Hmmm..... Well it could be argued that there is a sound logic behind the average speed cameras on the A537 Cat and Fiddle (assuming ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Is it April 1st or are these people having a laugh? |
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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 12:51
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| Brake: • Life bans are implemented for life-threatening and life-taking drivers. This one caught my eye. For a start what will be judged life-threatening? - As a motorcyclist I'd judge anyone who says 'SMIDSY' - and who gets to choose what is and isn't 'life-threatening'? But of more concern is how ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Campaign begins to switch speed cameras back on in UK town |
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 23:27
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| I don't dodge issues either.... It's a simple enough question that is being discussed. I'd just like your thoughts on this.... The mother of the dead child says he could have been save by a speed camera 'If there were speed cameras on Drove Road my son might still be alive. Instead he was killed by... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: National Speed Limit to be cut to 50 mph |
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 02:16
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Replies: 85
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| I also got a reply from my conservative local MP and he assured me a future conservative government would not impose any blanket NSL reduction....:) I fear it will be immaterial what a future Tory Gov would do. England's councils are reducing limits as quickly as they can get the signs up. With the... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Anyone seen this? |
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 01:46
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| I'm still trying to wrap my head round this one. For starters how did this Hamilton get to be a Judge? ""May I make it absolutely clear that had you been driving at 150mph you would have been going immediately to prison.....However, you were not driving at 150mph" So a judges job is t... |
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Forum: Motorcycling Topic: What is the point of sports bikes on the road? |
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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 15:22
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Replies: 42
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| I've recently done my usual early Sunday morning Peak District run on my TDM and my recently rebuilt XS650. And honestly I enjoyed the XS more simply because of the blanket 50mph limit across the area. Goodness know how frustrating it would be on a sportbike. Probably 'very' given the speed I was ju... |
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