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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Oxfordshire cameras to be turned back on |
| DieselMoment |
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 16:52
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| It's true. http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/newsevents-news-item.htm?id=170598 Speed cameras in Oxfordshire will begin operating again from April 1. Thames Valley Police have taken the decision to turn on cameras and resume operating mobile speed camera sites after they were turned off on August 1 ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Lowering of Rural Speed Limits |
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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 14:56
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| Update: The council has finally seen sense, and the 30mph limit which was the subject of this thread has now been increased to 40. Could have been made 50 in my view (as it once was), but - baby steps... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Labour's 13-year war on the motorist is over: Tories pledge |
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 19:12
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Replies: 29
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| The New Labour years fostered the "it's someone else's fault" and "there's no such thing as an accident" way of thinking, together with the blame culture. All Labour governments since year dot have used the motorist as a milch cow. Nowadays the motorist has a further use - the sh... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Labour's 13-year war on the motorist is over: Tories pledge |
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 13:58
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| Councils could fund them if they had the money and could justify their use - but the money raised would go to the Treasury, he said.[/i] So no change there then, that is what we have now. But it seems unlikely. After all, that's the scenario whereby Swindon council came to get rid of its five speed... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Labour's 13-year war on the motorist is over: Tories pledge |
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 06:17
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| Labour's 13-year war on the motorist is over: Tories pledge to halt rise of speed cameras, road pricing and cowboy clampers The war on the motorist is over, the Transport Secretary said yesterday on his first day in the job. Philip Hammond promised to end the way the country's 33million drivers hav... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: New device going up near Gatsos. What is it? |
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Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 15:19
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| Slightly off topic, but isn't it ridiculous that they can spend an absolute fortune on roadside monitoring and spying metalwork and yet the surfaces that we drive on are full of pot-holes, worn-out markings and surrounded by badly maintained signage :( Because cameras bring in lots of money! Pot ho... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Thames Valley Safer Roads partnership meet public |
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 03:50
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| I picked up the Maidenhead Advertiser for Thursday, 8th October because of the headline and a big picture of a speed camera. The article describes how speed cameras have not reduced accidents or improved road safety, and points out that accidents have actually increased in some camera locations. The... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: North Wales speed awareness course |
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 09:01
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| Thanks, MM. I found this DfT report , which I think will be a good one to show her ladyship, as it refers to police data. Initial results of matching The Health and Social Care Information Centre Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) and police data (STATS19) on road accidents suggest that the proporti... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: North Wales speed awareness course |
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 07:30
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| I have a lady friend with whom I argue endlessly about government road safety and speed limit policy. She is appalled that I have a Road Angel device in my car, which gives me advance warning of all the speed cameras. :lol: What's even funnier is that whereas I have never been convicted of a speedin... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Oxford now 20mph |
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 07:04
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| So what is the POINT of these new limits? Clearly no sensible driver would want to do much more than about 20 in these conditions, In my experience if you've got a 30 limit in an area that it would be clearly be mad to do 30 in a lot of people spend a lot of their time and effort TRYING to get to 3... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Oxford now 20mph |
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:15
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| It's true. On the approach to central Oxford on Saturday, I saw an illuminated information sign, advising that all side roads in the city are now :20: I was on my Yamaha XJ6 motorcycle, and turned left into one of the side roads just to see what conditions merit the new speed limit. The road was nar... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: "Cash first, safety second" - Telegraph ed. on speed cameras |
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 15:47
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| This article appeared in the Daily Telegraph on 5th May, 2009. I found myself nodding in agreement as I read it, especially the parts I've emboldened. Link to Telegraph article on website: http://tinyurl.com/cc9jjo "Ministers argue that festooning our highways with speed cameras makes them even... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: "Casualty Reduction Unit" |
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 23:33
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| Well - 14 days since seeing that van, and no NIP, so I believe I am indeed in the clear. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: "Casualty Reduction Unit" |
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:33
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| Yesterday as I drove south through Bagshot in the offside lane of the A322 where it's :50: ("new" speed limit which wasn't there when I was using this road every day in the 1980s) I came around a right hand bend near the A30, and some distance away I could see a white van with dark back wi... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Derbyshire speed limit butchery |
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 02:01
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| ...and just this weekend I got stopped for speeding in this "new" 30 area on my Honda scooter. The trap consisted of 3 officers on foot - the senior officer was a male of about 45 and was the one to raise his hand and flag me down. Another male officer stood around not doing very much, whi... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: CORNERING - How much do you know? |
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 15:13
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| I see this thread started before I joined the board! "Never brake in a bend" is dangerous and false advice. Not if you're riding a motorcycle. So if you encounter an unexpected obstacle around a blind corner, you believe that "best practice" is to hit it then? You need to contro... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: CORNERING - How much do you know? |
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:40
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I see this thread started before I joined the board!
Quote: "Never brake in a bend" is dangerous and false advice.
Not if you're riding a motorcycle. |
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Forum: Help! I'm being prosecuted! Topic: Bus Lane help |
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 13:56
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RobinXe wrote: Just to clear up a couple of points. Firstly there is no such thing as getting away with it on a technicality. Its simply called justice.
Agreed. I was using the parlance of Weepej and others like him. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: More (misguided) speed limits for Maidenhead area |
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 13:54
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| Leafing through the latest weekly edition of the Maidenhead Advertiser, I found no fewer than three articles about our "dangerous roads", and what was being done to remedy the situation. The main one concerned a stretch of the A308, where a woman had been struck by a lorry and injured. The... |
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Forum: Help! I'm being prosecuted! Topic: Bus Lane help |
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 13:18
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| The bus lanes signage is not always clear. I live near Reading, and often use my Honda motor scooter to go to the centre of town. There is a contraflow bus lane which allows me to ride the "wrong way" up Kings Road. There is a motor cycle icon on the sign which makes clear that it's OK for... |
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