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There was a stoy in the Southend Echo last week about residents on a street denied a speed camera. They said that cars were doing 60 to 70 down there street and children would die etc.

It is a street the local Boy racers could use to get to the sea front, but it does have parked cars on either side. I went for a look yesterday and the cars were doing about 35. You could do 70 down there, in a Subaru. But there are traffic lights at the end of it so weather you could stop after doing 70 would be a different story.

I wouldn't be surprised if the cars "doing 60-70mph" were actually cars with noisy exhausts doing 35-40mph in second gear.

Cheers
Peter

Yup, people always seem to equate noise with speed (which isn't the case at all).

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The only way you would know that is if you were following one .... at the same speed.

If 1 in 200 cars are doing that, targeted "live" police enforcement is needed. If the road in question is a residential street, it is unlikely that many offenders will be driving licensed vehicles that a speed camera could catch.

On the other hand, if 25% of cars are doing 60-70, the speed limit is wrong.

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it's a residential street, but one that is a fairly main street in southend. I'd say 30 is about right, but wouldn't be upset to find people doing high 30's. Your's going to get the odd idiot going fast, but there won't be many doing 60, I'm really not sure there is enough room to hit 60 and brake for the lights in anything other than something fairly quick. I rekon it's more to do with Darren and Waynes noise exhausts than speed. But noisy exhaust don't kill innocent children and fluffy bunnies, they just annoy them.

Agreed. I've just come off night duty, during which i chased a car which crashed heavily after a short chase (roof had to be cut off by LFB, treated as 'serious' by the Traffic Sergeant that attended etc..)

He downloaded the IDR (the 'black box installed in all Met cars). It showed us as hitting a maximum mph of 75 during the chase. This was on a wide 30mph residential road at 3am. It felt very fast, despite not seeming that fast on paper. I doubt very much if Wayne and Sharon could hit 70mph on a tight residential road!! Much more likely it's the massively over-active imagination of local residents...