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Reset Your Melt Down Clock Please



Dear Paul.

Could you please reset your Melt Down clock to 1825 days.


6 is a bit optomistic and even your imaginary statistical skills would be hard-pressed to justify leaving it a 6 days for almost 5 years.



Ta.

Oh don't be so daft

Can't you see it's purely symbolic, like the expression "11th hour" even though it may not actually be 11 O'clock.

Sheesh

However...
Come to think of it, Mr Bliar has stated that his 3rd term in office will be spent addressing the issues peple really care about; might be worth Paul notching that clock down to 4 days
Hmmmm. So JJ/Steve/et al, rather than using the office PC to surf the web and post inane comments on forums, might be worth firing up Word (you do have a legal copy there don't you?) and dusting off the old CV - you may just be needing it soon.

Nice to see Steve having a go at a difficult word like "optimistic", shame he didn't quite pull it off...

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Steve

I heard a report on the BBC R4 'Today' programme that apparently one in thre vehiclees on UK roads are now 'incorrectly' registered - i.e. they are being driven around with number plates that do not correspond to those registered at DVLA, or are supposed to have been 'scrapped' 'exported' etc. but in fact have not been.

If this is true, then a huge number of the vehicles flashed by your cameras must be untraceable.

Is this true or not? What's the true proportion? And what are you proposing to do about these millions of 'Gatso-immune' vehicles?

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Rioman, Herts

This happened with my wifes car.
Bought at the Peugeot dealers, with brand new MOT and Tax, all bearing the reg. number on the car in September.
Come February, the previous owner (Who had transfered his personalised reg. to HIS new car) received a reminder for the tax on his OLD car, registered with his personalised plate.
A quick check with the garage found that the reg. was current on his new car, AND his old one, so my wife had been driving around with a car that was unregistered on the computer, despite the DVLA Preston office issuing a tax disc with the number on, and recording the MOT!!!!!

DVLA then refused to allow her to drive the car without a tax disc, because they could not get a new one to her for up to six weeks.
I telephoned, and was told it was IMPOSSIBLE for two cars to be recorded with the same number, and it was not their fault. Well since the computer sent out TWO reminders with the same number on, I found that hard to swallow. I drove the car without the tax disc until they sorted it out - luckily a bit quicker than the 6 weeks!! No doubt had I speeded past a camer, the computer would have coughed when they went to trace the number!

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Doh! You just reminded me that we got lumbered with providing protection for the grinning geezer for the odd appearances he makes up here as "MP".

But... we have no cams here Sort of ... But we do it all in the best possible taste.

Only operated by police. Professional judgement used. Fair discretion used. Plus - a mix of patrols and our posters.

Appears to work and appears to create less hostility.

But ...

Guess what ..-

When they drive without insurance in their unregistered cars here - we actually prosecute them.

What a strange concept - they actually get booked on the spot ...They even understand why - but only after we used words of one syllable.

We get our Brownie points by sending all this off to Treasury too

More to road safety than a speed camera.

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Funny (ish) story.

Changed cars recently. Driving the new one around the first day in a heavily scammed area. New car, very different to anything we've had before. Had to keep a close eye on the speedo, being very careful not to pass a camera at over the limit.

It wasn't until late that night I realised the garage had managed to put the wrong plates on the car. Only one character out but the reg on the car belonged to a Merc not a Pug.

Being honest I did the decent thing and made a beeline for the dealers the next morning but it was only by chance I noticed. We could have been driving around for weeks? months? with the wrong plates.

Seriously, I think this feature of the website needs reconsideration.

But the next general election is likely to be in early May 2009, so 1460 days might seem more appropriate.

And there is a limit to how long the scamerati can keep digging themselves deeper into their hole, which may bring about an earlier policy shift

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Any views expressed in this post are personal opinions and may not represent the views of Safe Speed

Last June , youngest daughter +me went to a dealer . We Found two cars we liked at price we liked and said ok.
Next day as i passed ANPR Jag , i noticed no tax disk.Phoned Daughter - she had also passed ANPR with no reaction.

Fast drive to tax office.

We're told this cannot happen. ANPR will stop this.

How strange.

Peter E - dont forget bliar now has a very reduced majority - so it remains to be seen just how long he can afford to suport anti public policies.Also - he has just lost his very large majority- labour long knives will be out and a new order might just decide that anti motorist policies aint in keeping with getting another term with a large majority.We can but hope, but i would predict a change in priorities soon.Labour (new/old) don't forgive loosers, and his new policy of croonyism(sorry cronyism, -can he sing??) might prove his downfall.

A few years back, a lady in Windermere registered her NEW Fiat, and it came back with LA 23 - the first 4 digits of her post code, and not the number she was expecting!
They twigged when she asked them how she could sell it!
Westmorland gazette ran the story, but failed to mention the wrath of the DVLA when they thought she might profit from their mistake!!!

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Why 1825 days? Is that when you calculate you will finally have exhausted the regression to the mean benefit illusion?



5 years eh? Change history is as follows:

Inception: 28th August 2003 - 3 months
31st August 2003 - 90 days
6th September 2003 - 85 days
1st November 2003 - 70 days
24th November 2003 - 40 days
4th December 2003 - 30 days
27th February 2004 - 20 days
9th April 2004 - 15 days
13th March 2005 - 7 days
8th April 2005 - 6 days

In fact, the Safe Speed web site first appeared on 16th May 2001 - just under 4 years ago.

The Camera Meltdown Countdown last changed under a month before your post. Are you in the habit of confusing under a month with 5 years? Such poor understanding of numerical quantities would explain how it is possible for you to have faith in speed cameras.

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Paul Smith
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The Safe Speed campaign demands a return to intelligent road safety

Relax, it's only a post from (the real) JJ.

How can we tell?

the spelling and grammar errors

the extremely pathetic attempts at irony (Steve's are merely pathetic)

the propensity to manipulate and exaggerate in order to falsely justify a claim
(that's what he is paid to do after all)

Following the DfT moratorium on speed cameras and lots of interesting news in the last ten days I have advanced the Camera Meltdown Countdown from 5 days to 3 days.

Clearly the end is neigh, the wheels are coming off, we have reached the tipping point, the brakes are on and the writing is on the wall.

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Paul Smith
Our scrap speed cameras petition got over 28,000 sigs
The Safe Speed campaign demands a return to intelligent road safety