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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Brake claim "Drivers blame everyone else for bad driving" |
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 13:43
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| The problem with Brake is that long ago its reason for existance changed. It started out as a single issue campaign group and there's nowt wrong with that. But now Brake exists to see Brake in print, on TV and on the Internet. At first Brake existed to make a point, now it exists merely to exist. In... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Speed camera not to be replaced |
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 16:56
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| http://thewellingtonnews.co.uk/content/road-safety-wellington-top-priority The speed camera at Bennetts Bank, Wellington, is not to be replaced. Many feel it should never have been put there in the first place, as the accident figures used to justify it were fiddled, if not faked, in the views of m... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Is this claim by West Mercia right? |
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 13:25
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Steve wrote: PeterE wrote: Speed cameras have never made any significant revenue... Not for the government, but they are extremely lucrative for the people who operate them!
Yes, indeed! And the camera firms, the people who supply the film or digital media, etc., etc., etc... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Is this claim by West Mercia right? |
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:57
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| I see! This would, therefore, imply that it really is all about revenue and very little about safety... In my view it's primarily about control . Speed cameras have never made any significant revenue except when the hypothecation scheme was in operation. Maybe, in the early days before people becam... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: A view from Australia on the Speed Camera debate. |
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:54
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| A very interesting article. I am a non-driver. An eyesight issue, I gave up driving some years ago as a result of having a large chunk of the back of my right eye floaing around all the time. However, I can see well enough to notice the following: Many drivers do NOT keep their eyes on the road, any... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Is this claim by West Mercia right? |
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:37
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| I think that safety might have been the orignal idea. Until someone thought: "Hang on! We can make a fortune! But only if we start placing the cameras in certain very lucrative locations, they will not enhance safety, but just think of the revenue!" And that was the start of the long, slip... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Is this claim by West Mercia right? |
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:14
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| I see! This would, therefore, imply that it really is all about revenue and very little about safety... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Is this claim by West Mercia right? |
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 09:51
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| http://thewellingtonnews.co.uk/content/speed-enforcement-strengthened-a41-shropshire The placement of speed camera warning signs at enforcement sites is not a legal requirement. So, if it's not a legal requirement, what is it? Just a guideline? Also, wasn't there a case a couple of years ago of a W... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Drivers stick to limit despite speed camera switch-off |
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 14:05
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| Unless, of course, the majority of people stuck to the speed limit before the speed cameras were installed? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Interesting video |
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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:09
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| A sign in the background says Ivalo. Ivalo is in Finland. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Call to dispand ACPO plc |
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 03:09
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So, when did it stop being an association and degenerate into a sort of secret police service?  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Its all Welsh to me! |
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 03:06
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| There are parts of Shropshire, on the Welsh borer, where English is not the first language. A few years back an elderly chap was on trial for shoplifting and it transpired that even though he was born in England, he spoke no English, and had to have a local vicar in court to translate the proceeding... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Do you need to change the filter when you change the oil? |
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 04:13
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| Some synthetic oils are designed for a particular model of car. Some experts do point out that there are some problems with using modern, synthetic oils in older engines. The details are back in the office! Here's what Comma says: * Modern Oils (= fully & semi synthetic oils), especially lower v... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Why does a perceived cam stir up violent anger? |
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 03:58
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Speed flow cameras are regularly targeted.
Mind you there was that idiot who was jailed for attacking paediatricians as he "thought that meant they sexually abused children."  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Its all Welsh to me! |
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 03:07
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| My wife and I were in Aber, not so long ago, with a Sikh friend. A man and two women started talking in Welsh. My wife suddenly walked up to them and began to speak to them quietly, but forcibly. Oh, dear. What a time for them to discover that my wife is a very fluent Welsh speaker! :D She never did... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Insurance write off vs modifications |
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 03:01
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Well, a local solicitor might know (for example) that Inspector X is an utter divvy and that the right person to contact to get things started and completed is sergeant Y.
Sometimes local knowledge can help. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Hide your cameras |
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 02:53
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| Yes. It is getting worrying. some clown decided to try to stop me taking photographs of an incident in the street, from my own property. He told me he could seize my camera "for the evidence it contained." (It contained no 'evidence'.) He was a civilian, but was working with the police. An... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Irelands worst driver ever has 50+ identities ;) |
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 02:43
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| And on holiday in Holland a fellow coach passenger said: "Isn't it amazing? There are so many towns called 'Centrum' in Holland!" |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Brake fitter tried to fit me up |
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 02:39
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| On the way to see houses on the Wirral, my front brakes started grinding. I took the car to a brake fitter (one that ends with Fit) near Bromborough. I told him to change the pads, and he said he couldn't, company procedures etc. He said he "definately had to change the disks, they WILL be kna... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: DSA &Staffordshire Police waste time and money |
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 02:13
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| http://thatsmotoring.blogspot.com/2009/02/dsa-and-staffordshire-police-waste-time.html The Driving Standards Agency's Fraud and Integrity Team has carried out an operation against so-called illegal driving instructors operating in Burton on Trent, Staffordshire. Two marked police cars were used to s... |
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