http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Motorway speeding tickets around Bristol rise from 750 to 23,000" en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:41:54 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14688#post-186242 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 16:16:05 +0000 acsimpson 186242@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Rene Descartes drives differently to most people. It's a choice between that or ceasing to exist. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14688#post-186238 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:49:29 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 186238@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Calvin explained there was no point in complaining about the speeding ticket because it was always going to happen.</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14688#post-186237 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:41:27 +0000 paddyirish 186237@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Oppenheimer said, it was a big car, until I declared war on Motorists</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14688#post-186236 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:33:54 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 186236@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Einstein says it's quite a big car... relatively speaking...</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14688#post-186234 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:27:05 +0000 steveo 186234@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Newton creates a new law, objects in motion stay in motion unless acted upon by a speed camera.</em></p> <p>(How big is this car?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14688#post-186233 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:22:21 +0000 ARobComp 186233@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Godwin is sitting in the back passenger seat, and makes some comment about this being worse than the gestapo..</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14688#post-186230 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:06:33 +0000 fimm 186230@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well, that brightened up a Friday afternoon quite nicely... (the quantum mechanics jokes, not the speeding drivers). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14688#post-186229 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:51:57 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 186229@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Socrates was in the back seat, and it's just as well he wasn't driving as he was permanently p***ed...</em></p> <p><em>Erm...</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14688#post-186228 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:36:28 +0000 ARobComp 186228@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Schrödinger is in the passenger seat... </p> <p>The policeman is suspicious and asks to see in the boot. </p> <p>He opens it and leaps back saying "do you know that there is a dead cat in here?!" </p> <p>Schrödinger throws his arms up and says, "Well NOW I do" .... </em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14688#post-186226 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:34:25 +0000 dougal 186226@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Heisenberg gets pulled over for speeding. The policeman asks Heisenberg "Excuse me sir, do you know how fast you were going?"</p> <p>Heisenberg replies, "No, but I know exactly where I am!"</p> <p>The officer looks at him confused and says "you were going 108 miles per hour!"</p> <p>Heisenberg throws his arms up and cries, "Great! Now I'm lost!"</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14688#post-186223 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:21:35 +0000 ARobComp 186223@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Drivers are like electrons. The very act of observing them...alters how they act...right? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14688#post-186209 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:30:12 +0000 dougal 186209@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"Youre just asking for an accident if you are consistantly having to monitor your speedo instead of the road. Driving is no fun anymore thanks to the bureaucrats and two-wheeled brigades." - killermansm</em></p> <p>Not sure if that one is parody. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14688#post-186202 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:08:40 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 186202@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From the story itself:</p> <p>"Digital cameras on 'smart motorways' where speed limits vary and the hard shoulder becomes a fourth lane are thought to be the cause"</p> <p>"The spike in figures is said to be down to tougher policing of a section of the smart motorway." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14688#post-186199 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:56:21 +0000 ARobComp 186199@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>comments ... are..... awesome! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14688#post-186197 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:22:33 +0000 chdot 186197@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Motorway-speeding-tickets-Bristol-rise-750-23-000/story-26318062-detail/story.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Motorway-speeding-tickets-Bristol-rise-750-23-000/story-26318062-detail/story.html</a> </p>