BBC message board about speed cameras
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Ladies & Gents,
BBC Have Your Say has opened up a message board for comments about speed cameras. Get in there and fight for our corner.
Be aware, the BBC will not publish over the top posts. Best bet to get your comment on is to be original.
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/3306405.stm[/url]
BBC Have Your Say has opened up a message board for comments about speed cameras. Get in there and fight for our corner.
Be aware, the BBC will not publish over the top posts. Best bet to get your comment on is to be original.
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/3306405.stm[/url]
Done, and may I refer you good people to this thread
www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=10&t=71105
www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=10&t=71105
Having encouraged you to send comments to the BBC site, they have a tendency of balancing the arguments regardless.
Even if they receive 3 pro-camera comments and 10,000 anti-camera comments, they will publish all 3 of the pro-camera ones and maybe only half a dozen of the anti-camera ones.
Even if they receive 3 pro-camera comments and 10,000 anti-camera comments, they will publish all 3 of the pro-camera ones and maybe only half a dozen of the anti-camera ones.
sandal wearing lentil muncher said:ARRRRGGGHHHHHH
Speed kills. How can you possibly object to static speed cameras? I agree that they should be set appropriately to allow say a 5mph margin of error. I live on an A road with a 50mph speed limit, and feel very vulnerable (with my child in the back) when pulling out of my drive - due to some testosterone driven lunatics insisting on careering past at 60mph+.
Jayne, Salisbury
KILL THEM, KILL THEM ALL
puggit said:
Speed kills. How can you possibly object to static speed cameras? I agree that they should be set appropriately to allow say a 5mph margin of error. I live on an A road with a 50mph speed limit, and feel very vulnerable (with my child in the back) when pulling out of my drive - due to some testosterone driven lunatics insisting on careering past at 60mph+.
Jayne, Salisbury
ARRRRGGGHHHHHH
KILL THEM, KILL THEM ALL
Posted a bit about cameras costing lives ....
Jayne from Salisbury - Make sure the gap is a sensible one then ....use your judgement. Ah forgot she probably does not have any.
Actually the one on there by the guy who calls for speed limiters etc is more worrying ... in that there is someone who believes that will make things safer ...
What I just can't understand about these so-called liberal Tofu-chompers is their lack of respect for general public intelligence. Why can't they understand that if you have an intelligent, human police force and a motoring public allowed to make up it's own mind, we won't be pandering to robots and taking our eyes off the task in hand. Multi-tasking in a car isn't like reading a magazine on the toilet!
Just posted this:
Rather than ask why Durham does not have more static speed cameras, the Minister should be asking what factors were attributable to the increase in road deaths, and how those factors are being addressed in order to secure a reduction. Recent, rather less biased statistics show that speed is the absolute determining factor in less than 8% of road accidents.
In fact, it is more likely to be the case that the increase is due to drunk drivers, joy riders in stolen cars, abysmal driving standards or even people using dangerous, poorly maintained vehicles. If this was the case then it's hard to see how static or even mobile speed cameras would make any impact on the road death figures. Surely good old fashioned police on the beat, showing the traditional good sense that the British Police are renowned for is the way to reduce road deaths, not reliance on simplistic "speed kills" mantras and inappropriate technology that criminalises those least likely to be the real problem!
Andy 400se
Rather than ask why Durham does not have more static speed cameras, the Minister should be asking what factors were attributable to the increase in road deaths, and how those factors are being addressed in order to secure a reduction. Recent, rather less biased statistics show that speed is the absolute determining factor in less than 8% of road accidents.
In fact, it is more likely to be the case that the increase is due to drunk drivers, joy riders in stolen cars, abysmal driving standards or even people using dangerous, poorly maintained vehicles. If this was the case then it's hard to see how static or even mobile speed cameras would make any impact on the road death figures. Surely good old fashioned police on the beat, showing the traditional good sense that the British Police are renowned for is the way to reduce road deaths, not reliance on simplistic "speed kills" mantras and inappropriate technology that criminalises those least likely to be the real problem!
Andy 400se
The Wiz said:
sandal wearing lentil muncher said:
Speed kills. How can you possibly object to static speed cameras? I agree that they should be set appropriately to allow say a 5mph margin of error. I live on an A road with a 50mph speed limit, and feel very vulnerable (with my child in the back) when pulling out of my drive - due to some testosterone driven lunatics insisting on careering past at 60mph+.
Jayne, Salisbury
ARRRRGGGHHHHHH
KILL THEM, KILL THEM ALL
Posted a bit about cameras costing lives ....
Jayne from Salisbury - Make sure the gap is a sensible one then ....use your judgement. Ah forgot she probably does not have any.
Actually the one on there by the guy who calls for speed limiters etc is more worrying ... in that there is someone who believes that will make things safer ...
You have to feel sorry for these people really because in evolutionary terms they have nor really been happy since the wheel was invented. You can usually spot them if you use a cigarette lighter, they kind of have a look of "Ooohhhh magic.... Fire from his fingers" They would generally be a lot happier in a mud hut wearing wode and making daisy chains. Imagine the trauma they must face on a daily basis having to deal with such magic and wizardry as a car. Or perhaps the ritual that must develop having to reverse onto a main road.
puggit said:
Speed kills. How can you possibly object to static speed cameras? I agree that they should be set appropriately to allow say a 5mph margin of error. I live on an A road with a 50mph speed limit, and feel very vulnerable (with my child in the back) when pulling out of my drive - due to some testosterone driven lunatics insisting on careering past at 60mph+.
Jayne, Salisbury
ARRRRGGGHHHHHH
KILL THEM, KILL THEM ALL
I was just about to post exactly the same thing, she's sounds like a complete Mumpty who is intimidated by the whole 'driving' thing, finds spacial awareness an impossible concept and is probably less-deserving of a license than the 'testosterone driven lunatics' she refers too! 
BURN THEM BURN THEM BURN THEM BURN THEM BURN THEM
Shoved my tuppence worth in.
Must say it is really excellent that the topic of speed cameras is getting such an airing in the media. Just goes to show that people making an effort like the ABD and the safespeed geezer really can make a difference and shove an issue into the public view. This really seems to be building up a lot of momentum. Up the revolution!
Must say it is really excellent that the topic of speed cameras is getting such an airing in the media. Just goes to show that people making an effort like the ABD and the safespeed geezer really can make a difference and shove an issue into the public view. This really seems to be building up a lot of momentum. Up the revolution!
Neil_H said:
sandal wearing lentil muncher said:
Speed kills. How can you possibly object to static speed cameras? I agree that they should be set appropriately to allow say a 5mph margin of error. I live on an A road with a 50mph speed limit, and feel very vulnerable (with my child in the back) when pulling out of my drive - due to some testosterone driven lunatics insisting on careering past at 60mph+.
Jayne, Salisbury
ARRRRGGGHHHHHH
KILL THEM, KILL THEM ALL
BURN THEM BURN THEM BURN THEM BURN THEM BURN THEM
Yes. Hate the overt sexism she's using. I could mention the 'oestragen-driven lunatics' putting their make-up on whilst chatting on their phone, doing the eyelashes in the rear-view and fumbling the pedals with pink high heels whilst negotiating roundabouts in their 206CC, but I doubt the lovely, liberal BBC would allow such comments, especially when they're made by a foaming, far-right neo-Nazi group such as PistonHeads!
The Wiz said:
sandal wearing lentil muncher said:
Speed kills. How can you possibly object to static speed cameras? I agree that they should be set appropriately to allow say a 5mph margin of error. I live on an A road with a 50mph speed limit, and feel very vulnerable (with my child in the back) when pulling out of my drive - due to some testosterone driven lunatics insisting on careering past at 60mph+.
Jayne, Salisbury
ARRRRGGGHHHHHH
KILL THEM, KILL THEM ALL
Posted a bit about cameras costing lives ....
Jayne from Salisbury - Make sure the gap is a sensible one then ....use your judgement. Ah forgot she probably does not have any.
Actually the one on there by the guy who calls for speed limiters etc is more worrying ... in that there is someone who believes that will make things safer ...
Just wondering about Jayne, bet she's one of these people who thinks it's OK to reverse out of her drive onto an A road (placing her child in direct line of the on coming traffic) and thus does not have a clear view of the "testosterone driven lunatics"
If she's that worried a nice semi in a cul-de-sac will sort it out!
sandal wearing lentil muncher said:
Speed kills. How can you possibly object to static speed cameras? I agree that they should be set appropriately to allow say a 5mph margin of error. I live on an A road with a 50mph speed limit, and feel very vulnerable (with my child in the back) when pulling out of my drive - due to some testosterone driven lunatics insisting on careering past at 60mph+.
Jayne, Salisbury
Plus it's not the speed that'll be her problem but the ammount of traffic (they could all be doing 30mph and she'll still have a problem finding a gap) or the fact she's probably a dithering fool who drives wearing blinkers and an attitude to male drivers.
Probably the type to miss the gaps when your stuck behind her at a T junction then pulls out in front of someone causing an accident and puts the blame on the speed of the approaching car
I think Jezza summed her kind up best when he mentioned the 'petrified, ie turned-to-stone' types who 'dawdle around, hunched over the wheel with the sun-visor pullled down behind their heads. Tom Cruise could be in the car alongside, waving his meat out of the window and Maureen would be non the wiser' 
I bet she's more of a liability than the speeders, thinks she's perfect because she's 'never had a 'bump'', yet, strangely, has no NCB. You know the type.
I bet she's more of a liability than the speeders, thinks she's perfect because she's 'never had a 'bump'', yet, strangely, has no NCB. You know the type.
Mrs Puggit said:
Just wondering about Jayne, bet she's one of these people who thinks it's OK to reverse out of her drive onto an A road (placing her child in direct line of the on coming traffic) and thus does not have a clear view of the "testosterone driven lunatics"
Which is an illegal manouvre, but try telling her and all the others who do it. Seems they have no idea it's either dangerous or illegal.Gassing Station | General Gassing [Archive] | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff