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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: Mon Sep 06, 2010 12:59
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| What makes you think that there's such a thing as an accident v speed curve? http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/speedandspeedcameras/speedingresearch.html http://www.safespeed.org.uk/speedlimits.html Firstly apologies for being a late entrant into this thread - I have been heavily involved in the... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: Not quite Safe Speed |
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Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:19
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| Not quite Safe Speed in the Media but I have just recorded a segment for one of our TV Channels here in Sydney. (Representing the National Motorists Association of Australia.) The subject was prompted by the cessation of UK Government funding for speed cameras. I drew on some of the pearls of wisdom... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: New SouthWales - New speed cameras deliver a fast buck |
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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 12:36
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| The State Government (or mis-government!) has until 26 March 2011 before it is despatched (We have fixed 4 year terms for the State Government in New South Wales). The opposition spokesman on roads, who will have responsibility for this area of Government, has already stated that he is not a support... |
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Forum: Campaigning Topic: http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/ |
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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:55
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| If I may make a suggestion from afar. Everyone should also contact their MP especially if they are on the Coalition side and make their points of view and seek their assistance (or even offer to help). You could also join your preferred political party and make your points through meetings and resol... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: " 'Thrillseeker' Jailed For Fatal Speed Stunt" |
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:02
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| BTW that does sound like a ridiculous situation you mention, re 30 year suspended licence :loco: What the hec is that about! Its called dumb bureaucracy - our traffic authorities specialise in it. This lunatic accumulation of suspensions gives no hope of rehabilitation. We have all done the youthfu... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: CABLED Consortium - first findings |
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 14:26
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| Another "trial" by a self-select group. It is almost certain that they are not typical of the general population and thus the results have little meaning. It is the envelope of performance that is interesting not the average. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: " 'Thrillseeker' Jailed For Fatal Speed Stunt" |
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 14:09
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| I think you may be a bit harsh calling it a "mental illness" if I may say so MFL. Or if it is then it's something which afflicts most of us at that age :roll: ( Perhaps a bit harsh but even in my wildest youth I could not envisage doing anything like this. If you look at the road it has p... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: " 'Thrillseeker' Jailed For Fatal Speed Stunt" |
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 14:41
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| Other local reports suggest that this brat was"known to Police". Unfortunately in this world there are some people who do the most stupid things. It is an open question as to whether this sort of thing should be treated as a traffic offence or a version of mental illness. Not only is that ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: "Alcohol Limit For Drivers 'Could Be Slashed' " |
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 10:25
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| The North Report can be downloaded for your perusal (all 285 pages of it) here: http://northreview.independent.gov.uk/docs/NorthReview-Report.pdf One paragraph that struck my eye was this: 3.41. Review of the literature highlighted that there was only limited evidence on the pattern of drink drivin... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Killer under the bonnet |
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Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 12:14
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| I am significantly underwhelmed by the suggestion that you could be infected with Legionaires from your own windscreen washer as the liquid would go over you and not enter the cabin. Also I think that most additives would have an algaecide/bacteriacide as part of the anti sludge component. I have ha... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Two Pedestrians Killed In Police Car Crash |
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 08:57
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| I often see police cars driven at very high speeds through very crowded places. Ambulance drivers and fire engine drivers do seem to take a bit more care. Would love to know if somebody's done a cost benefit analysis (injuries and crashes vs severity of crime being attended), or even worked out if ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: "The day I hit a child at 20mph" |
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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 12:36
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| You seem to have omitted those particular sections, any reason for that? Funny that, so did the earlier editions of Roadcraft. The copy I bought about 25 years ago hardly mentions speed limits. I bought my son a copy of "Roadcraft" about 7 or 8 years ago and was dismayed to see the sectio... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: BALLOT: Speed van nabs 100 in one hour |
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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 12:06
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If there are that many people exceeding the limit then the limit is wrong! Getting that message across to the self-important is  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: No contracts, no new roads/etc |
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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:35
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| Its a good idea to review all proposals which have not had signed contracts (and even those that do) as the contract/proposal could be very poor in terms of cost/benefits or may be contrary to the incoming policy. It would be good to reject a contract that called for space and wiring for multiple an... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: New house needed: 9 bin update ! |
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Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:44
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| We in have 4 bins here in Ku-ring-gai (which is one of the Council areas in the Northern suburbs of Sydney). One weekly collection is for kitchen waste plus any thing else that does not go in the others, mostly 120 litres but you can have a larger 240 litre bin at a cost. We have a fortnightly colle... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: I was present at a nasty accident this morning. |
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Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 14:15
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| In Australia where seat belt wearing is almost universal (where fitted) it is said that the trigger deceleration for airbags to deploy is significantly higher than other jurisdictions (especially USA). This is because seatbelts will manage the body well enough to avoid serious injury in relatively m... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Congestion charge considered as gridlock threatens historic |
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 12:10
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| York. The city of my birth which I visit, briefly, each time I return to the UK. My only reason for going into the city is to show my wife and offspring what really old places are like. Even 5 decades ago it was always regarded as a nice place to visit but a bloody awful place to do business. The So... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Global warming cobblers? |
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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 09:50
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| As I suspected. Anti AGW propaganda is being financed by big oil. Oh dear! The age old fallacy "My opponent paid for the research therefore it is invalid". Do you expect that oil and coal industries would be supporting research that would kill their industries? Do you expect that Greenpea... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Taxi anyone ? |
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 03:56
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botach wrote: On a more seriousnote -did someone in the council screw up and attach the same information notice on all council forms ? 
Or is someone taking the pith? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What a Refreshing Change! |
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 15:21
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It was very cold in Invercargill in November when I was there (next stop is Antarctica) so it would have been really cold in September. She must have had a lot of "anti freeze" aboard to expose herself!  |
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