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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Sinister conspiracy to cheat the motorist |
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 22:43
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| If a black box saved me money, proved I was a good driver and more importantly that it was someone else who caused the crash, then please come along and fit one to my car tomorrow. I know some 17/18/19yo's who I would trust implicitly behind the wheel - I also know some 30/40-somethings who I am alw... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Police Driving & Riding - Ever complained? Results? |
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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 00:45
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| I have been escorted by police before through traffic to get to an incident and have also been front passenger in a traffic car, both with b&t's on; I did not like either experience and had to keep telling myself "they know what they're doing". The section bobbies though are no better ... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Motorway speed control |
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 00:11
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| Oh I dont know - if we are talking purely motorway/expressway driving then there very well should be at the very least some form of automatic control for vehicles, if only to reduce vehicle headways and prevent ghost traffic jams. How often do we see traffic bunching up at motorway entry slips due t... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Motorway speed control |
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 23:39
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malcolmw wrote: In general, taking control away from the driver is a VERY BAD idea.
It could also be argued that taking control away from the driver would save many a road death... but hey... that probably wouldn't wash in this arena  |
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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 10, 2011 00:56
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Replies: 45
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| I think what is being said, is that as a driver it is YOUR responsibility to drive according to your forward visibility, your capabilities, your vehicles braking capabilities and everything else that a good driver is supposed to be - i.e looking out for potential hazards, such as those with insuffic... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Traffic lights: |
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 21:43
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Replies: 3
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| that at any given time only has 3 cars waiting to emerge at most ( often none when the roads are quiet), whereas the road that they would join is a busy through way, which would result in long tailbacks for the sake of just a few cars emerging which would have cleared within a few seconds waiting a... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Child pedestrian casualties up 75% on 2008 |
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 15:16
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Replies: 7
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Yellow box junction question |
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 21:24
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| IIRC, it is only London which has dispensation for automatic (i.e video) enforcement of yellow boxes. In all other areas I believe enforcement still rests with the local roads policing unit. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: turning right at lights |
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 21:20
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| Further to the first reply regarding the statutory instrument, that refers only to Pelicans, Zebras and Puffins. Crossings at junctions (regardless of type) are not covered by this legislation. As for waiting behind, from a purely capacity point of view, I would much rather as many cars as possible ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Rail crossing driver was 'reckless' |
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Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 15:06
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Replies: 25
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| you have to remember though that the warning period is not just there for motorists, but also there for pedestrians who may be crossing. Is it reasonable to assume that an infirm pedestrian could clear the crossing in 5 seconds? No. With 24 seconds at least there is a good chance they can clear the ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Problems with filter traffic lights at night. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 23:46
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| Yes, I must admit that some of my colleagues have been somewhat shortsighted in using inductive loops when alot of moden cycles do not have anywhere near enough metallic components to cause a change. I currently use magnetometer type detectors now for all my new build sites and am going through a pr... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What a Refreshing Change! |
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 01:13
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Replies: 12
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Ha! I've had all sorts flashed (and thrown) at me while working at the side of the road. Munters with boobs like spaniels ears flapping by, to minibuses full of slappers with their bomb doors up to the windows.
Not particularly my thing, but puts a smile on your face nontheless!  |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Putting back in, the Science and Engineering |
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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 22:51
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Replies: 28
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| No, every accident doesnt need to be investigated as a matter of course. However when looking at accident data for clusters, for example, the information given on the stats19 forms or whatever theyre called, is surprisingly sparse to be of any real use to an engineer looking at the causes of acciden... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Putting back in, the Science and Engineering |
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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 16:15
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| North East Lincolnshire Council actually raised a 40mph to a 50mph on the A16 Peaks Parkway... IIRC the 85%ile remained pretty constant. The saving grace for this limit being that its on a new road with NO frontage development or accesses and was installed as a 40mph buffer zone between NSL and 30 w... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Putting back in, the Science and Engineering |
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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 15:46
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| Depends on the road and what that road winds through. A residential road .. parked cars/speed humps/play streets versus a motorway running through a remoter area would have drivers at a safe flowing speed at around these "blanket speeds" as you say. 85th percentile wih a small number devi... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Putting back in, the Science and Engineering |
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 16:25
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| We dont need more engineers - we need more TRAINED engineers, those that dealt with traffic engineering back in the 70's and 80's need to come out of retirement to share their knowledge and every traffic engineer should be trained as such. As a traffic engineer who was brought up in traffic engineer... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Ran stop light |
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:21
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| The fact that you have analysed the problem and aware that you made a mistake will no doubt make you more aware of the hazard in the future and make you a safer driver. Be thankful you dont work on the railways - you got away with this one; if you were a train driver it would be on your record for t... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Observing temporary traffic lights! |
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 20:48
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Replies: 80
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| county councils have to put the exact positioning, layout and junction, timing and reason for them into law in Ireland so I'm guessing temporary traffic lights have no legal basis. I imagine a dangerous driving charge is in order though for failing to stop at for a hazard Yes. My driving instructor... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Is this light phasing legal? |
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 03:13
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St Andrews Cross?
I presume therfore you are referring to open level crossings? What has that got to do with the subject? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Is this light phasing legal? |
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 23:46
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Guidelines and regulations, yes. And the experience of the engineer designing or operating the site.
Having seen some of the monstrosities on the network, it is the latter that is sometimes lacking. |
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