Best way to travel 5 miles to a train station?

If everyone else is also driving at 10mph, I'd think it would be, yes.

 

"David Martin" wrote in message

Because it means I can hold my phone up to my right ear without it snagging
on the belt.

 

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Guy, I think the only consequences of all this "surveillance" stuff is that
you make life too easy for the _real_ criminals, and increasingly
inconvenient for those who, on the whole, stick to the normal rules of
society.

You may think that all motorists are criminals waiting to maliciously kill
people with their cars, not caring about the consequences of their actions
because they can speed away from the scene, but I think you are
disillusioned. Motorists reflect society. If all motorists are criminals,
then, probably everyone is. ANPR is a useful tool in certain circumstances,
like the terrorist cordon around London, but not appropriate for the
respectful policing of a largely (IMHO) civilised society.

My ideal world is one where cars don't have number plates and where people
are free to go enjoy their lives in complete privacy, and where we tolerate
minor variations in "integrity". Yours seems to be a world where everyone's
every movement is recorded to ensure that any misdemeanour can be avenged.

Matt
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Except in these days of "just in time" manufacturing, it is.

 

You are Prince Charles AICMFF Corgis

 

.... and that, children, is why attributes are A Good Thing.

 

Huge () gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

Wrong.

 

Velvet

Which makes it not incontrovertibly as you apply a caveat.

 

Like fish in a barrel;

Section 87, Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984:

'No statutory provision imposing a speed limit ... shall apply to any
vehicle on an occasion when it is being used for fire brigade,
ambulance or police purposes, if the observation of that provision
would be likely to hinder the use of the vehicle for the purpose to
which it is being put at the time'.

 

Closing speeds being equal, yes.

Guy
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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington
University

 

Just zis Guy, you know?

Bollocks.

 

And the existence of roads means that living further out becomes
practicable, increasing the labour pool for jobs in London and holding down
the compensation which would otherwise have to be paid to compensate for
higher house prices...

These things do not exist in isolation.

And building in car-dependence, bringing doughnutting, depopulated streets,
ghetto communities... The US experience tells us a lot about the quality of
life afforded by gearing a society around car use.

Guy
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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington
University

 

I think you'll find they do, they certainly apply to other emergency
vehicles (or did last time I talked to a fireman). There is a gentlemen's
agreement not to prosecute on the way to a shout, of course.

Tachograph regulations don't apply to fire appliances on the way to a shout,
though. Allegedly.

Guy
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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington
University

 

Huge () gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

Not *quite* so fast...

I think you'll find it's that last "if" that's the important bit here,
and which was *far* from clearly stated in the OP's post, as well as
being implicitly denied in your post.

 

I think you'll find they don't.

I've already quoted the relevant piece of legislation in another posting.

 

How does ANPR make life difficult for me, in a way that other technologies
(including the Mk. 1 eyeball) do not? I'm still struggling to understand
that.

Actually I think that most motorists just don't care quite enough,
compounded by misinformation put about by the "speed deosn't kill" brigade
(who know perfectly well it does), and the documented fact that most drivers
overestimate their own skill.

What proportion of the public will not, on principle, remove a pen from the
office stationery cupboard for personal use? About the same as the
proportion that will not, on principle, break traffic laws, in my view. The
key has to be to bring home to people that breaking traffic laws is a key
factor in making the roads dangerous.

You are an idealist, obviously. My solution is to opt out of the whole
traffic stupidity, because I see far too much aggression and carelessness
coupled to very large, very fast pieces of metal.

Guy
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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington
University

 

Huge () gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

You have. It doesn't agree with your blanket statement.

 

I dont think the question was nonsensical (or moronic) lots of people
have replied and some have even had some quite sensible suggestions.

The clear winner at the moment seems to be to get a taxi every day -
sounds expensive, but when I consider that I am running an additional
car almost purely for the station run then the cost of doing this is
actually cheaper!

So at least somebody understood what I was asking!

David Bevan

http://www.davidbevan.co.uk

 

Which isn't what you claimed at all, is it? If the police officer is off
to a meeting at HQ, and the speed limit isn't hindering him because he's
in plenty of time, then the speed limit still applies, despite him being
on police business.

 

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