Cat and Fiddle down

The time has come, it seems. New average speed cameras are going in
along the A537, better known as the Cat and Fiddle, aka "The Most
Dangerous Road in Britain".

http://www.mysaferroads.org.uk/news_more.asp?news_id=21&current_id=1

They claim to have done all sorts of stuff to the road to make it safer
- but how they justify "high-friction surfacing" juxtaposed against
"safety markings painted in red on the road" causes a raised eyebrow
here.

Most pointedly, as apparently 76% of the CnF casualties are speeding
motorcyclists, the cameras are a new breed: facing the rear of vehicles
passing them. Not only this, they're not just monitoring the average
speed of a vehicle passing between pairs, but between /any two
cameras/. They've linked them all together, ensuring no escape ...
providing they can read the plate, of course.

The really nasty bit of this, to me, is that they've rumbled the A54 as
well - that joins the A537 up towards the pub at the top and to me is
one of the best roads I've ridden: twisty, lumpy, three-dimensional.
Many's the time I've blissfully hooned the 54, being able to see the
helicopter overlooking the 537 and giggling quietly to myself. Those
days are over, obviously. Fucking Nanny State.

 

AKA, or used to be, the best biking road in the Peak District. Sad, it
is. IIWY I'd move to a different country. Or get a new hobby.

 

Correction, "fucking police/facist state"

The nanny state is the one where the molly coddle you.

 

There have always been lots of other bikes there so I've never bothered. Bit
like the IoM in TT week, when flat cap wearing dog carrying can't drive for
toffee cunts take to motorbikes.

Rear looking Specs is a bit retrograde however.

Make sure your number plate is non GB or illegible.

 

That only works if the cameras result in reduced physical policing. A
better option is to go ride somewhere else.

 

Yeah, it's probably never been as good as it was in the '70s. Sundays
up to Matlock bath, chips and tea on the prom, mad haring around over
via-gellia and the whole of North Derbyshire...

Jumpers for goalposts, eh?

Bit

 

*ding*

 

The good thing about cameras is they usually replace Plod.

 

I'd always rather have plod than cameras. Unless driving on forn
plates, of course...

 

Sounds almost like a spoof. Certainly never hapenned.

 

Can I offer the A483 as a new contender for the best road in Britain
(without cameras)?

 

Not if you want it to stay that way.

 

ah good point, move along, nothing to see here......

 

This one:

http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=A483

Looks interesting, and a decent length too - certainly worthy from
Ammanford to Welshpool, I have vague memories of travelling it. Very
scenic. Wouldn't want to stray into NWP territory, mind.

Good point, well made. We keeps schtum on that sort of thing, innit.

 

Shut up!

(that's the road my parents live on)

 

Do **** off you stupid ****.

The road for people to enjoy the performance of their bikes is the A272,
especially the section from Winchester to Petersfield.

 

Newtown police are worse than NWP. The stretch from Crossroads to Newtown
is a motorcycling no go zone. Choppers, unmarked bikes etc.

The best bit is verboten

 

Noooooo! What have they done to the A54? It might be time to break out
the SAMs and machine guns.

flook

 

no no no, A272 is on my dorrstep and yet I still push further to get to the
A339 Odiham
I'll grant you Loomies gives a nice excuse to get onto the 272 mind.

 

I used to live in Alton, so I could use either without having to head
too far )