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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Disappearing Stockport Gatsos |
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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 00:01
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Replies: 21
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Have Stockport published the results of their Speed Limit Review yet, and any proposed changes to this road?
If they are not planning to change it, the Speed Limit Review would provide a good opportunity to write to them with an objection, and request that they increase the speed limit. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Disappearing Stockport Gatsos |
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 00:07
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Replies: 21
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| How long has that 50 limit been there? Long enough to ask the council for before-and-after casualty figures for the road? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed reduction consultation - We need to fight this HARD! |
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Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 23:37
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Replies: 46
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| Considering that this consultation document includes the snippet that the DfT did some research about raising the motorway limit to 80 mph but decided it would cause more accidents, are there any casualty figures for the German autobahns to compare the accident record of the derestricted sections wi... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: BBC News Website - 30 Dec 2008 |
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 13:46
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Replies: 5
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| Calls for 'speed-limiting' cars Speed-limiting devices should be fitted to cars on a voluntary basis to help save lives and cut carbon emissions, according to a new report. The government's transport advisers claim the technology would cut road accidents with injuries by 29%. The device automatical... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: New improved M1 |
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 00:01
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Replies: 10
Views: 3892
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| Coming south, the design doesn't help because lane 1 sprouts an extra lane to the left which becomes the new lane 1. Most HGV's correctly pull over into this lane, however most car drivers probably don't even notice that a 4th lane has appeared and won't use it. A better design would be lane 3 sprou... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: M25 Variable Speed Limits |
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Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 23:44
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Replies: 29
Views: 17530
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| Yesterday I spoke with a very helpful gentleman at the Highways Agency (HA) who has answered the questions that I had outstanding. Implementation of the new digital cameras is now expected in the Summer, no specific date given, though I am sure if enough people were to contact the Highways agency t... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: M25 Variable Speed Limits |
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Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 23:42
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Replies: 29
Views: 17530
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| The grace period is 10 seconds ( official regulations - "(b) apart from this paragraph, the vehicle would be subject to a speed limit by virtue of this regulation, but would not have been subject to a speed limit by virtue of this regulation had it passed that location ten seconds earlier than ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Hoon backs average speed cameras |
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 17:27
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Replies: 18
Views: 7981
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| Hoon backs speed camera overhaul Transport secretary Geoff Hoon has said traditional fixed-point speed cameras may be replaced by "fairer" versions which measure drivers' average speed. He told the Sunday Times he understood why cameras which measure speed at just one point were not popul... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Daily Mail, Friday November 7 |
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Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 02:52
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Replies: 66
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It sounds like she was just a very un-confident driver, not quite sure what to do with a right-turn across a dual carriageway.
This is yet another reason why at-grade right turn junctions on D2's should be banned outright. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: More than 400 drivers a month fined in 50mph motorway |
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 02:09
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Replies: 11
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| The speed limit was placed to stop workers being endangered. Clearly the limit was widely ignored bya large number of drivers - none of whom were stopped, so likely sped past other road works too. Umm... have you driven on this section of motorway? From J10-9 southbound, the works were completely f... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: ABD submission to Transport Committee |
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 01:01
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Replies: 1
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| Reading the transcript of the committee's interview with the ABD rep, they seemed to have no grasp of road safety issues and didn't even understand the 85th percentile despite having it described to them three times -- therefore it's not surprising what they came out with. However, the report could ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Digital enforcement: 6pts for 45 in 30 - 55 in 40 - 95 in 70 |
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 21:41
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| But then 15 mph above the lolly in this area never earned the FPN around here. Press or rather those pro-cams accuse us of "not doing much for road safety because we have a low FPN return." Err.. we have a higher than normal return for prosecuting for much more serious traffic offences - ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed cameras face the end of the road |
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 01:12
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Replies: 23
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| There is already a thread on this here: http://www.safespeed.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=19018 My husband heard on the radio, the day Swindon announced the end of the cameras, that in fact it was the end of the Council paying to maintain the cameras, but that some other body, such as the R... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: M4 Wiltshire - how to lie with statistics |
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 01:06
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Replies: 33
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| In fact what happens is that traffic bunches up as the silly 70mph effect ruins the (already poor) vehicle spacing at each flyover, then traffic resumes sensible running until the next flyover. Its a real joke! And if you don't know the scumeras operate, you will be nicked in total secrecy (presuma... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: M4 Wiltshire - how to lie with statistics |
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 22:04
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Replies: 33
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| So, the Wiltshire scammers have now released 3-year before and after stats, which they are crowing about somewhat: Fatal SI KSI Slight Total Before 14 68 82 659 741 (March 2002-March 2005) After 8 47 55 341 396 (March 2005-March 2008) Do these represent real reductions? The Fatals is obviously not s... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: M40, M4 and M3 to get camera vans |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 18:54
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Replies: 15
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| Motorway camera vans probably do help to prevent some accidents, by reducing the speed of the fastest 10% of drivers, who do drive too fast for their abilities and cause accidents. But what's fairly certain is that if the speed limit was increased to 80 mph and the cameras left in place, there would... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: M40, M4 and M3 to get camera vans |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 16:10
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Replies: 15
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| As a result of the 3-year accident statistics for the Wiltshire M4 enforcement being published and appearing to show a 40% reduction in accidents, Thames Valley has decided they are now going to start enforcing all the motorways in their region... Motorway speed enforcement to cut collisions Rising ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Drivers will have no escape from new speed cameras |
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 23:51
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Replies: 41
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| The thing is that over a 15-mile journey there are numerous roundabouts, traffic lights, junctions, 40-everywhere drivers and such that will reduce your average speed to below the limit, even if most of the time you're bombing down country lanes at 70. In urban areas this system would be completely ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Warwickshire overrules police concerns |
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 20:08
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| One prize case of lunacy is the new DC extending the A5 - and bypassing the old bit of S/C at Hints .Possibly this a ove to create a case for moving the now redundant Gatso's from the old A5 (or whatever it's called now ) onto the DC - smacks of control freakery ,as the new road hasn't been open lo... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Council scraps ALL speed cameras in Tax Protest |
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 00:38
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Replies: 30
Views: 11698
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| Well, that report is 2.5 years old ... but yeah, it's by no means certain that the council will actually vote to carry through with this plan. |
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