"Limits in place over holiday period for your safety"

[supermono]

Ok, so Friday morning at o-dark-hundred I was wandering up the deserted M11 through their lucrative SPECS 40mph stretch getting increasingly annoyed at how much of my time was being wasted, when I passed the sign: "Limits in place over holiday period for your safety". It certainly wasn't for the workers' safety since there were none in sight (as per usual)

Talk about rubbing salt into the wound!

If I had a spray can in the car I'd have stopped and replaced the last two words with "our revenue"

SM

[Yugguy]

There's one near me that's been around for ages, "speed limits remain in place due to unfinished central barrier"

WELL :CENSORED: FINISH IT THEN YOU STEAMING GREAT TW@TS!!!

>> Edited by Yugguy on Tuesday 18th April 08:49

[turbobloke]

supermono said:

Ok, so Friday morning at o-dark-hundred I was wandering up the deserted M11 through their lucrative SPECS 40mph stretch getting increasingly annoyed at how much of my time was being wasted, when I passed the sign: "Limits in place over holiday period for your safety". SM

You are quite right to be annoyed, if I got the gist of a report correctly.

Transport research laboratory report TRL 595, a study covering three years, showed no significant difference in the worker PIA rate (personal injury accident) for sites with and without speed cameras. But with no workers over a holday, 'so what' anyway.....

But then TRL 595 also showed an increase in injury crashes by up to 55% at motorway roadwork sites with speed cameras. So, if there were cameras active within the reduced speed limit section(s), the sign could also have said "cameras in place over holiday period to increase your risk".

[james_j]

turbobloke said:

But then TRL 595 also showed an increase in injury crashes by up to 55% at motorway roadwork sites with speed cameras. So, if there were cameras active within the reduced speed limit section(s), the sign could also have said "cameras in place over holiday period to increase your risk".

Proof if ever it were needed that revenue is more important to them than safety (or wasted time, fuel, frustrated drivers etc etc).

[BliarOut]

I went through that yesterday too... Quite made my blood boil

Surprising just how many people sailed past, obviously completely unaware how SPECS works.

KERCHING

[peteA]

BliarOut said:

I went through that yesterday too... Quite made my blood boil Surprising just how many people sailed past, obviously completely unaware how SPECS works. KERCHING

40mph stretches of roadworks on the A1 - again, no one working! Very inconsiderate...also cameras at various points...all the brake lights come on, everyone slows down to 60, then 50 , then 40 and then back up again...bloody stupid having the things on A & M roads, can only cause accidents if you ask me

[antispeed]

peteA said:

BliarOut said: I went through that yesterday too... Quite made my blood boil Surprising just how many people sailed past, obviously completely unaware how SPECS works. KERCHING 40mph stretches of roadworks on the A1 - again, no one working! Very inconsiderate...also cameras at various points...all the brake lights come on, everyone slows down to 60, then 50 , then 40 and then back up again...bloody stupid having the things on A & M roads, can only cause accidents if you ask me

have anyone noticed that the speedo needle always drops slower than your brakes braking?

[timbob]

Always wondered about the central reservation signs... About the unfinished barrier meaning a 40mph limit, when on a single carriageway A road, with no barrier, and oncoming traffic passing 2 or 3 feet to your offside, the limit is 60mph!

Oh, hang on, better keep schtum about that, before NSL is reduced to 40 !