Safe Speed Forums

it's reassuring to know that someone in such a position has never bothered to read the highway code.

There's not much call for it in a submarine!

You should have been there towards the end when the bannings were flying thick and fast.

Someone stated that the Camera Partnerships were part of the machinery responsible for the loss of downward trend in fatalities. He demanded that they immediately 'take that back' or be banned.

Several posters very reasonably pointed out that if he was willing to take credit for any decrease in the numbers then he must surely take the credit for any increases as well. Not a popular suggestion.

Then a thread disappeared. He claimed it was pruned by the software. This was challenged by several posters as the software doesn't work like that. It was claimed that what he said was untrue (a lie!). Out came the banning stick again.

He later admitted that what he had said was not true, but he stated that it was not a lie either. Must be the official SCP dictionary he was using.

I miss the CSCP forums.

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Like lorries being limited to 40mph on single carageway roads where everyone else can do 60 (unless towing.... etc. etc.)?

Wow. I wish I could have been there. That forum sounds great.

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Andrew.

That's the one - with these speed differentials being rigorously enforced by your local friendly Camera Partnership of course.

It certainly did a good job in demonstrating that the sole justification for the existence of CSCP was financial; and that their own staff have fallen into the time old trap of believing their own propaganda!

IIRC I think I finally got banned for failing to apologise for proving the great man to have told a lie - oops, I mean a "terminological inexactitude", to quote a much greater man...

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In Scotland I have seen 70 mph signs where you join a motorway from a slip road.

Come to think of it - I don't recall seeing a 60 mph or NSL sign when leaving Scottish motorways to go onto a single carriageway.

Hmm, does anybody know the form there?

Best wishes all,
Dave.

I read a suggestion that theis is because the slip roads in Scotland are special roads but not motorways, so without the 70 limit they would have no limit. (national speed limit wouldn't apply) I don't know how true that is.

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Andrew.

Given this complete tosh - I think it would be appropriate to award the authors a safe speed gong for stupidity. At the end of the day these cretins cost the tax payer 200k per year.

how many cars are more efficient at 40mph than 70? only broken ones I'd argue.

What they should be calling for is manufacturers to release mpg figures for 80mph - then there'd be some focus on improving fuel economy at real world speeds

Yeah. In fact a graph (with the original data) would be nice.
Possibly one graph per gear and fuel usage per 1mph or 1KM/h over that gear's entire possible speed range.

Of course it's only true on a flat road, but that would be better than 3 seemingly random numbers they give now.

How can something called "Auto Express" suggest this anyway? Surely their name suggests fast speeds?

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Andrew.