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"Speed kills: Cambridgeshire Police Chief Constable Julie Spence has hit out "
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Posted 13 years ago #
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We need more like her!
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Just waiting for the (self) righteous fury from the wailers to hit the comments.
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At last a Police Officer who take speeding seriously.
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key word - "outgoing"
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And another
"Acpo's Mick Giannasi fears speed camera cut risks lives"
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My belief that i'm a completely different species from the wailer's has been confirmed. Read the lowest rated comments and see how many you agree with now do the same with the high rated comments. The difference between the two is you daily wailer score further from 0 in any direction is worse.
For this story i'm 0! Yeah
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[A Comment]:
"I don't agree with speed cameras in the slightest but having been caught out a few times, I decided to drive everywhere at 65 miles an hour... It hasn't actually added any more than five minutes to my commute, but it's almost doubled how far I get on a tank of diesel.""doubled"?!
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"I decided to drive everywhere at 65 miles an hour"
I presume that's in the 30,40 and 50 zones too. Hence fuel and time not wasted accellerating and decellerating.
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I travel often on the Motorways (M74, M6, M5, M32 and M40) going between Edinburgh and Oxford. It constantly astounds me that even when travelling at 70, there are a vast number of cars in "their" lane pushing and driving dangerously close to overtake doing 80 or 90 or even more.
I think we should have average speed cameras based on 70mph placed at each interchange - like they have at road works (with 50mph being the limit there) - then get rid of the speedsters by confiscating their cars. Surely a small outlay considering the numbers of junctions on (say) the M6.
And do you notice that the fast cars are mainly German nade? ( i.e. Audi, BMW, Merc, Opel VW)
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Most crashes I've spotted on drives this summer have been in the outside lane
Speed kills
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Raoul WAlsh Chief Copper "We will leave no stone turned"
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no wailing, actually agree most obnoxious behaviour seems to come from Audis, especially the silver one in my street who almost grounds it every time it goes over a speed bump ! Installed to protect our children ! Only middle class and above who can afford to get speeding tickets ! Police who see the real world should be applauded ! Speeding is a bit of an obsession of mine, it is not needed, the fines are not needed. All the technology exists to prevent vehicles speeding, all over the country rural and suburban. It exists now! Has done for years,but no one will make money,our children will continue to die because politicians are terrified to stop the money flow. If your car radio can automatically retune to receive the local traffic info, then the local speed limit can be sent via radio waves, or inductive loops that are already used to monitor us. I am not going to get fired up about this cause its actually quite well known. Easiest way not to get caught speeding is obvious, slow down and drive within the limits !
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problem with the speed limit is that it appears to be interpreted as "recommended minimum speed" rather than what it actually is - the mandated maximum speed.
That says, I'd give anything to get a flash off of one of those cameras on St Johns / Corstorphine Road. Never managed to get past 34 though :(
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"All the technology exists to prevent vehicles speeding, all over the country rural and suburban. It exists now! Has done for years"
Yeah. It's called a brain!
Seriously, couldn't agree with you more.
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"Speeding motorists are hypocrites guilty of “middle class anti-social behaviour” who believe they can get away with breaking the law" I couldn't agree more.
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That says, I'd give anything to get a flash off of one of those cameras on St Johns / Corstorphine Road. Never managed to get past 34 though :(
You want to try Lanark Road, its a 40!
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The one in Millerhill is best - it just tells you how fast you're going.
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The one in Millerhill is best - it just tells you how fast you're going.
do you get happy / sad face also?
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Should it be reversed when some one on a bike approaches? Sad if your under 30 mph....
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You want to try Lanark Road, its a 40!
It's also very difficult to set it off. I had a feeling that the flash threshold speed is 110% of posted limit + 2mph. If so, you'd need to hit 46mph on that particular stretch, and the best I've managed there on my bike is dead on 40mph.
My comment to motorists that 'speed limits are not speed targets' has generally fallen on deaf ears.
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When speed cameras were first introduced in Edinburgh the 30mph zone ones were set at 52mph (yes, really).
I guess they're much lower now, but no idea what. I suppose it would be possible to find out...Posted 13 years ago # -
In Leith Links there are those "speak your speed" flashing signs - only problem is, they're set to 30mph (and it's a 20 zone).
The private hire cars going 50% over the speed limit past the school gates get a big smile. Only in Edinburgh!
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The private hire cars
I only realised what a plague these things are when they made them put the big white "don't get in me" stickers on the side. Every other badly-driven silver Skoda Octavia avec magic tree hanging from the rear-view seems to be one.
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"Speed camera opponents hail success of Swindon switch-off - but do figures back that up?"
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Meanwhile in Oxford
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-10929488Posted 13 years ago # -
"When speed cameras were first introduced in Edinburgh the 30mph zone ones were set at 52mph (yes, really)."
Must have been a calibration error, it was supposed to be 52Km/h which would be a much more sensible speed to set them to...
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Just heard on the radio that in Oxfordshire there has been a 88% increase in drivers speeding!! And that was in a 30 mph limit with a camera set at 35 mph!!!
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many HGVs are driven by people who are pushed by their employer. I am not, my employer is a huge retail company who we should all probably hate but hey ho ! I regularlly travel along A roads, esp A9 at the legal limit of 40 or 50 mph,in cruise control,with descent control activated. Many cars and other HGVs regularly overtake me and blast through cameras without a flash ! Rumours abound about unwritten rules regarding wagons, any thing up to 50 (on the 40 stretches ) and your ok,police will not pull you, but camera vans will ! Goodness knows what tolerances are involved ! Biggest gripe in edinburgh has to be the cars that undertake me on cirstorphon (spelling ! ) road, in the bus lane, so that they are on the blind side of my artic on the roundabouts,or try to undertake at the lights when the limit drops from 40 to 30, just at the jail,where that child was killed.
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If I see a big green speed-limit abiding ASDA lorry on corstorphine road I'll give you a "lorry driver" salute.
Posted 13 years ago # -
actually most cyclists do as i point at them to let them know ive seen them ! Must admit our new double decker trailers are a wee bit hard to miss !
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