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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Curious Secondary Camera |
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 09:47
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Free parking limited to 2 hours at motorway services |
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Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 16:19
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| Now let's hear your case. My case is extremely simple. MSAs are not, and should be used as either: - destinations in their own right, for use as car share nodes as some have suggested - unofficial snooze centres. Two hours to stop for a bite to eat and a drink is ample. To suggest that you should e... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Free parking limited to 2 hours at motorway services |
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Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 01:24
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| Perhaps you need to read the first post again and note that I'm asking questions. I *suspect* a problem and I'm investigating. You appear to have jumped to a series of erroneous conclusions. Actually, I haven't jumped to any conclusions. Far from it. You did not use the word "suspect" in your origi... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Free parking limited to 2 hours at motorway services |
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Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 00:17
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| Milsee -- fact one - those of us from the north of scotland know the problems of long distance driving - we grow up with it .some living in the cushy south can get any where in one/two hours.we realise that after about 10 hours we might need a rest in spite of our ability to drive longer.I would su... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Free parking limited to 2 hours at motorway services |
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 22:44
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| You wouldn't say that if you lived in North Scotland. It's commonplace for me to set off knowing that I'll need a few hours sleep before the journey is completed. So why do you assume that MSA car parks should be the place to do that? If you know you need sleep, then you should plan to break your j... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Free parking limited to 2 hours at motorway services |
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 16:43
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| It always has been 2 hours since MSAs were first conceived. The 2 hours comes from the Government guidelines on MSAs, Roads Circular 1/94: http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_roads/documents/page/dft_roads_505175.pdf In addition the parking quantities specified above, the departments will requ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Brunstrom just can't let go - but he gets worse! |
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:10
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| 'Hide speed cameras inside catseyes' Oct 10 2005 Sally Williams, Western Mail PLACING speed cameras in catseyes, under proposals made by a Welsh police chief, would herald a big brother-type police state, it was claimed last night. In an interview, Mr Brunstrom, pictured right, suggested hiding cam... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Help needed, Road death info deleted from Police web site |
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 16:37
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Gizmo wrote: I have sent an e-mail to Leicester County Council (Group Manager
Transport Policy and Programmes) asking for an explanation. I will keep you posted.
I'm not sure that the county council would be able to help with the police website? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: BBC Radio 2 today |
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 01:08
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| I was screaming at the radio, Brunstrom stated he wanted to educate, be open and above board. Yet, in todays Daily Mail, there was an article about N Wales Police dressing up in Black uniforms, and slipped in there was a snippet about Brunstrom ordering his officers to hide behind walls with their ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Stalled learner lands instructor a parking fine |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 22:32
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camera operator wrote: so how can the rule be barking!!
after 3 seperate speed stat visits the 85 percentile is high then obviously there is a speeding problem there.
and hopefully now, by this post, you can see that "speeding" and "safety" are completely divorced from each other.
At last!! |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Steering delay? |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 22:06
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| We've (Claire and I) been talking about it a lot today. The main conclusion is that it's likely to most frequently be caused by road surface irregularities. It might be a white line, a join between tarmac sections or any other 'ridge' type feature. Sometimes the ridge feature may not be obvious... ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Steering delay? |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 10:30
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pogo wrote: Variable crosswinds?
I think so.
Often, you can't tell the strength of the crosswinds because the vegetation hardly moves.
Probably eddy currents or something like that. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Do the people who plan our roads have any idea? |
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:12
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| The one exception appears to be when a concert or similar is on at the Sands Centre, as they often queue to get out. I care little for queues coming out of a development. The highway authority's primary concern should be for free-flowing traffic on the public highway. It reminds me of my time at an... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Do the people who plan our roads have any idea? |
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Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 19:46
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Of course, the more bus/cycle/walking schemes are developed, the more money the council gets form central government in the annual LTP settlement.
The naive amongst us would say that improves job security  |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Do the people who plan our roads have any idea? |
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Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:48
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| millsee, you talk like a traffic planner or something like, so if you are ever in Redcar, take a look at the wonderful traffic lights outside Morrisons. Nobody has ever seen such a dog's dinner of a junction. Especially as it's only a T- junction. There are about 28 traffic light columns covering s... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Lancashire Scammers reply to criticism |
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:35
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| Our job is to reduce the number of road users killed and hurt on Lancashire's roads. It is not about necessarily reducing the number of road accidents per se, which is something that seems to cause confusion. If, for an example, a motorist is in a crash, but because of a nearby safety camera they a... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Do the people who plan our roads have any idea? |
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 10:30
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| Down my way replacing a large roundabout with 73 sets of traffic lights is sanity. How you can insert so many traffic lights onto a simple crossroads shows what they spend their time on. The junction has four phases along with toucan crossings across two of the approaches to the junction. Just what... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What is a dual carriageway? |
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:56
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Replies: 60
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| I think road hatchings may be a little unclear. Certainly the legal definition appears to leave some room for doubt (What constitutes land?). In the context in which it appears, something which is not the road/carriageway itself. On literal interpretation, the "carriageway" may also be "land" but i... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What is a dual carriageway? |
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 09:25
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Replies: 60
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| each pair of lanes is marked by a solid white line which, according to the Highway Code, defines the edge of the carriageway. The flaw in this argument is that the solid white line does not make it the edge of the carriageway merely because the HC states that such a line is used to define the edge ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What is a dual carriageway? |
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 15:27
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| My point is that by putting up 60mph signs rather than the NSL, you effectively change the speed limits for HGVs. No you don't. Many single-carriageway roads have 50mph limits, yet the limit for HGVs is still 40mph, regardless of the 50 signs. In the UK, a specific speed limit sign can never raise ... |
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