Safe Speed Forums

There's a discussion on this on Pistonheads at the moment:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topi ... 493975&i=0

I don't have time at the moment to get properly engaged in it - but thought some of the rest of you might

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rather sensationalist reporting really.

They enforce a law which was introduced to conserve fuel based on the efficiency of the vehicles around at the time.

They create more laws to supposedly ease congestion.

And then enforce these laws on the grounds of safety?

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Andrew.

I believe they average out the "lunging and lurching" that some drivers do. This stops the sporadic, sudden "crunches" we are all becoming more familiar with. If drivers could chill out and quit the "lunging and lurching", and drive steady, they'd all move on well, and we wouldn't need variable limits. As usual, it's a greedy few who spoil it for us all.

Sure is, I reckon most motorway wide queues at junctions are caused by people zooming up the right hand lane then cutting across at the last second.

Ony takes one or two to have to break and you get a massive compression wave.

Can I just clear something up once and for all?

David hit the brake pedal as he realised he was approaching the safety camera too quickly.

"Give me a break" uttered David as he was later hit with a £60 fine and three penalty points on his licence.

IME, they seem to be caused by inadequately specified sliproads leading to stationary traffic queueing back along L1, which then catches out some drivers who end up blocking L2 while they try to find a gap in L1 into which they can squeeze, and who then in turn force all the traffic not wanting to leave the main carriageway over into L3 to get by... I see this pretty much every morning heading out of London on the M40 going past the M25 turnoff, and then in the evening heading back into London on the M4, again going past the M25 turnoff.

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Chris

had someone cut infront of me on a DC this morning just as i was easing off for a camera, although they cut in and braked sharply. muppet.
needless to say i went back round them (faster than i should through the camera)..... i was sooooooo annoyed.

and also.. i saw one of the VSL gantry cameras on the m42 flash this morning, never seen them go off before so i guess they've only fairly recently been activated. (no one was speeding as far as i could see but there you go)