Speed camera vandal strikes again
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Jewhoo said:
Unfortunately morons like this give people like us (who want a sensible approach to road safety) a reputation of being speed-crazy as the "safety" groups like Brake inevitably link us for their own political gain.
>> Edited by Jewhoo on Friday 27th May 14:57 Why can't i make other smilies work?
>> Edited by Jewhoo on Friday 27th May 14:58
Especially when accompanied by a thumbs up symbol and posts in agreement.
destroyer said:
Unfortunately morons like this give people like us (who want a sensible approach to road safety) a reputation of being speed-crazy as the "safety" groups like Brake inevitably link us for their own political gain.
>> Edited by Jewhoo on Friday 27th May 14:57 Why can't i make other smilies work?
>> Edited by Jewhoo on Friday 27th May 14:58
Especially when accompanied by a thumbs up symbol and posts in agreement.
Oh come on
While there is money to be made, nobody in government / police / scamera unit is going to listen to the real reasons for road accidents anyway!!
Makes me happy knowing that someone is trying to make a difference. "Road Safety" is such a rediculous joke that they put scameras and their ilk under anyway.
Funny that the people whose jobs are on the line when the scameras fail are the ones trotting out the "speed kills" b
ks anyway! I bet if they were given new anti camera jobs paid for by the government their opinions would suddenly be different Total money driven greedy sheep (especially in wales
)Jewhoo said:Understandable sentiments but are they misplaced? Groups like Brake and the Greed Camera industry have credibility for the same reason as automated speed enforcment had credibility in Canadian provinces ... before it got ditched.
Unfortunately morons like this give people like us (who want a sensible approach to road safety) a reputation of being speed-crazy as the "safety" groups like Brake inevitably link us for their own political gain.
This was only because the policy was propped up by a well-funded spin machine. Of course, beyond the introductory phase, the spin machine was funded by the drivers pointlessly criminalised by automated speed enforcement.
Politicians and safety groups later agreed that automated enforcement of speed limits:
- had no safety benefits (here in the UK, annual road fatalities stopped falling and are now rising again, coincident with failed speed-obsessed policies)
- was an arbitrary and heavy handed approach (same here, safe driving is penalised unfairly while dangerous driving below the limit escapes)
- harmed police-public relations in many ways (senior Met BiB refused a widespread GATSO expansion programme for this very reason)
and, again for the cameras ... no pun intended ...
- was only propped up by a well-funded spin machine (here they've tried to hide the rises in annual fatality rates behind shameful 'KSI' stats where deaths are grouped with serious injury, itself a category amenable to manipulation by form fillers...and we have to endure those ghastly propaganda "adverts" )
There are many decent people in this country who don't believe those in authority would lie to them, which is partly why this government persists and why its revenue raising speed cameras have any following at all. Also why some people believe that a high speed is of itself dangerous, when this is clearly nonsensical.
As to vandalising a GATSO, it's no better and no worse than vandalising a monument or tagging a train or many other forms of property crime. Except that, if it contributes to a change of policy where greed cameras are phased down and scamera partnerships abolished, road safety might improve and increasingly unemployable people might be prompted to seek the training they need to do a more worthwhile job.
>> Edited by turbobloke on Saturday 28th May 19:52
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