Speed Camera Detectors to be Banned!

Following up to Phil Wattis

this isn't a temporary M roadworks 50, the A2 reduced to 50
permanently to reduce noise.

 

I agree with you on this.. Towns and cities have benefitted from
reasonable use of fixed cameras, but "reasonable" is becoming a
rarety.

I think speed detection devices placed sensibly in towns and
cities, work. Outside of that they are a hindrance and a danger
to all motorists and road users. And when towns/cities become
infested with them they lose any real effect as speeding is
replaced with other dangers brought about by frustration and road
rage.

Not at the speeds you ride at, surely?

*runs for cover*

 

Hey, even I can go fast on the straight bits.

 

If a dual carriageway has a speed limit lower than NSL, then the
"problem" is entirely artificial.

 

Since I work out there from time to time, thanks.

Not many drivers realise that roadworks and the hardshoulder are
dangerous places to be. IIRC most deaths on motorways are from the
workforce. I certainly know now of three policemen who have died on the
hardshoulder (that's over the last five years) and two of my colleagues
who work on the other side of the cones have been killed.

The limits set in roadworks are purely to protect the workforce who are
more vulnerable than pedestrians on a road without a footpath.

Personally, I think the 70mph limit on motorways is too low, that 60 on
a single carriageway 'A' road is about right and that many lower limits
need review. Some of them are far too high, others ludicrously low.

At present, the major decider for if your area gets a very low limit
seems to be "does the mayor/council leader or Chief Constable live down
your street?" I'd like it to be tad more rational than that.

 

No doubt you don't. Cocooned in your metal womb you are probably quite
oblivious to the world passing by at 100+mph.

However it is not the speeds, per se, that I find stressful, is it is
aggressive attitudes that go along with drivers who drive at considerably
more than the speed limit, that is the problem. Busy slip roads are made
substantially more dangerous because of idiots who consider that it is their
'right' to go at 90+ in the second line, making it very difficult for slower
moving traffic to move into the second lane to make way for cars on the slip
road to come onto the dual carriage way. Fortunately a couple of the more
dangerous slip roads have been made safer by the installation of speed
cameras.

 

I hope they'll compensate those who hand them in, like they did for
handguns, but with a proper value...

 

The one hidden behind bushes at the Liverpool end of the M62?

 

You shouldn't move over if it isn't clear. Traffic on the slip has to give
way. If you can't move over, it's their problem, they either need to wait or
stop trying to join the motorway at 45mph.
James

 

TOG@toil, ,

what makes you think the authorities actually want to stop people
speeding?

I think it'll be *very* productive...revenue wise.

 

And your response pretty much sums up the attitude I was describing. It's
not the problem of the guys hogging the outer lane far in excess of the
liimit, it's the problem of those with the audacity of wanting to join the
dual carriage way.

 

No, but they *will* tell you what the limit is.
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Driving on dual carriageways is made more difficult because of the
number of fuckwits who consider that they are so important that they
don't have to give way as required by law when they join a dual
carriageway from a slip road.

It looks like you want to be identified as a fuckwit who has never
bothered to read the Highway Code.

 

What either not at all or with a laughable payoff of a small fraction of
the value?

 

Whiel I disagree with the idea in priciple, technically I don't know of any
tunnels where the limit changes inside. Simply limit the vehicle to the
speed limit on entry, and keep it there until it enters a new zone.

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I also don't get this because I've yet to drive a car that can't hit at
least 90MPH by the end of a slip road should it be needed.

It seems to be more a case of poor forward planning if people can't exit
a slip road into a suitable gap..

 

Take into account all the speed limits for all the types of vehicles using
the road and the differential between these speed limits on the same piece
of road.


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You haven't driven many small cars have you

 

Plenty, you just have to drive them far harder, and hold the gears a lot
longer.

 

->> The Government plans to include the ban in a forthcoming road
->> safety Bill. The penalty for carrying a device in a vehicle has

->I hope they'll compensate those who hand them in, like they did for
->handguns, but with a proper value...

Don't be daft that would eat into the extra revenue they are after.