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Forum: General Chat Topic: Climate change - good contribution |
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 16:13
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: BBC News-Plan to cut road-racer deaths. |
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 13:55
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| For a government response this seems to be reasonably ok, compared to some of the nonsense that government spouts. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Quick question for the biologists. |
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 15:30
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Ernest Marsh wrote: It is the presence of oxygen which allows the corrosive nature of the acid to do it's stuff. 
Interestingly many of the hudreds of bacteria in our gut originate from the early days of life, when oxygen wasn't around. As such oxygen is toxic to most of these bacteria. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: A77 Quiz |
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 15:51
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| When I asked for the figures, they sent me data with the years before2002 (years with fewer deaths clearly blacked out, I found them myself later). You do wonder what motivates to "prove " by deception. Anyway on a similar subject the A77 upgrade, from a 4 lane deathtrap to dual carriagewa... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: A77 Quiz |
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 14:54
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| Steve I've got the figures for serious and they do appear to have dropped. They claim 39". |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: A77 Quiz |
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 14:52
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Too good Peter. You should be on the partnership 
They were introduced in July 2005. Take any other 3 year periods and you do not get any serious reduction. Also quite cute taking the 1 death in the whole of 2005 as after the SPECS although they were introduced in the middle of the year. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: A77 Quiz |
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 14:40
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| Anyone work out how those clever people at the A77 Safety Patrneship get a " 50% drop in fatalities after SPECS cameras introduced" from the following apparently random figures? (Figures from their own website.) Year Fatalities 1996 - 1 1997 - 2 1998 - 3 1999 - 2 2000 - 3 2001 - 3 2002 - 3... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: What Richard Brunstrom did next... |
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Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 12:49
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Great article Robin.
This is obviously the same as Paul's Garden gnome theory.
I'm assuming we don't have any people who believe that it was the crystals/dowsing that achieved the effect. In that case this article should be cited whenever astonishing results are achieved at camera sites. |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: 20mph zone |
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 16:45
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| Just a point. These are public roads and as such the public can drive on them. We all go the quickest route from A to B on our journeys. Constant labelling as rat runners probably labels us all. A point Paul made on a few occasions. As far as I know, my car and bike are taxed, insured, MOT'd and I ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: 20mph zone |
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 13:07
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| Just a point. These are public roads and as such the public can drive on them. We all go the quickest route from A to B on our journeys. Constant labelling as rat runners probably labels us all. A point Paul made on a few occasions. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: New M4 50 limit between J24 and J30? |
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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 13:05
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| There is a long stretch of the A77 (Ayr to Glasgow) road which is dual carriageway and now a 50 mph limit policed by average speed cameras. Probably been discussed before on here. The road was dangerous due to multiple junctions and having to cross the carriageway. Everyone now conforms to the speed... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Climate change |
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Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 23:40
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"Why would you be selfish to millions of unborn children?"
A tad hyperbolic I would suggest. Can one person be selfish to one million poeple let alone millions? |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Pseuodopavements development |
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 13:17
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| Safety Engineer what do you mean by "fails to danger"? As another even worse case of muddled thinking, there is a one way street that comes up to the main road, so as you guess, they put a large hump at that point. What is the point of that? You have to slow to check the traffic anyway :ro... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Pseuodopavements development |
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Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 14:02
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| This is a topic I have discussed before. By pseuodpavement I mean a pavement which is carried on over a T-junction using usually monobloc or similar. I argued that what this does is make it more likely a pedestrian will not look properly and just walk out in front of a turning car. Now in there wisd... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Are we losing the battle? |
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 15:41
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| With regard to red light jumping. I can see where it could be perfectly safe to do as long as due care was taken. Similar to crossing a junction with no lights. In India my friend always drove through red lights as he said he concentrated much more while doing this. Scared the bejesus out of me righ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Misguided call for lower speed |
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:38
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| If you were right about this then you would see less accidents in 20mph limit areas, but you don't according to the stats. Er, what stats? Reams of them showing that KSI rates are lower, much much lower, when 20mph areas are introduced, and one case where Safe Speed produced some figures from that ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Misguided call for lower speed |
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:15
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| I got the impression a while back that some people on here would rather cut villages in two and have a motorway style road through it, rather than simply slow down and be more careful. You see I think a lot of drivers who see a situation ahead that could end up in this type of result DON'T slow dow... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Controversial case, texting driver kills red light cyclist. |
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 13:45
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| "An Asian" though? Classy. Note absense (sic) of qualifiers such as man, person, bloke or chap. Pedant as well as troll!! :?: (This is merely my opinion. :lol: ) No I disagree. On first reading, the phrase "an Asian" did jar. However as JT said, it was relevant to the the later ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Controversial case, texting driver kills red light cyclist. |
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 16:26
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insanity wrote: He was turning right onto a side road when a motorbike coming the other way hit my mates car.
Sounds like your mate was completely at fault. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Controversial case, texting driver kills red light cyclist. |
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 13:30
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| A lot of people seem to be unaware of the fact that in English law you are punished for what you did (or didn't do), NOT for the consequences of that act or omission. Up to a point. But in this case if she had been caught using her mobile while driving and the cyclist hadn't come through the juncti... |
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