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funkihamsta

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1,261 posts

294 months

Thursday 20th March 2003
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Apparently transport2000 et al have won the court battle regarding the governments recent sop to the motoring public of painting gatsos yellow.

I have only this to say:
A gatso camera should be highly visible to act
a) as a deterrant
b) (more importantly) to highlight an accident blackspot..and save lives, surely not.

Explain to me why T2000 want to ensure that people are unaware of the camera until it flashes them. What happened to benign intervention and influence? What happened to the idea of saving lives? Perhaps ulterior motives are more important than lives. Come clean you bunch of almond eyed hairy legged petunia stinkers!

I am beginning to suspect that an ideal T2000 world would be a police state. But then all forms of narrow dogmatic belief is inherently fascist.

trefor

14,791 posts

314 months

Thursday 20th March 2003
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Halfords do a good line in yellow spray paint.

Don

28,378 posts

315 months

Thursday 20th March 2003
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Frankly...although I am a long standing law-abiding citizen who has spoken out against vigilante action in the past.

Go on the Captain...IYSWIM!

Its getting beyond a joke.

MoJocvh

16,837 posts

293 months

Thursday 20th March 2003
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hertsbiker

6,443 posts

302 months

Thursday 20th March 2003
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I'm scared. I have worked it out. They want you to be afraid of even slightly speeding, so concealed cameras are their way forward. If you don't know, you don't feel confident speeding... scary indeed. I hate it. So regardless of safety, they'd sooner give you a ticket. Nice people. I want to burn them alive.

mechsympathy

58,885 posts

286 months

Thursday 20th March 2003
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We could turn them all black...:flamethrower:

Tony Hall

23,648 posts

313 months

Friday 21st March 2003
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Theres a camera on the A189, near to North Seaton/Sleekburn in Northumberland thats STILL grey!

hut49

3,544 posts

293 months

Friday 21st March 2003
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mechsympathy said: We could turn them all black...:flamethrower:


Is that the cameras or T2000 people? Or both? (preferably!)

Big Chris

378 posts

289 months

Friday 21st March 2003
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Bloody speed camera's are getting beyond a joke now. I have zero complaints to ones used in very public places i.e near schools or shopping areas etc. Its the ones in the middle of nowhere where the only thing you gonna hit is a cow or sheep.

Camera's are used to generate money from motorists, plain and simple! Yes, they slow traffic down but as soon as you know where they are you slow for them, pass them and nail it. A prime example of ridiculous usage of cameras is between Leek and Nottingham (if anyone knows the road?) Should be a clear way but they have put a 50 limit restriction and slapped up about a billion cameras to enforce it. Thieving gypsy governments trying to take more of our hard earned cash through any means they can!!!

I think its high time motorists revolt against cameras that are used to make money.

>> Edited by Big Chris on Friday 21st March 08:46

mannginger

10,302 posts

288 months

Friday 21st March 2003
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I can't even describe the frustration I am feeling right now upon reading this. I don't have a car at the moment but when I do I am going to be soooo focussed on the speedo that I fear I will become a danger to other motorists - so what is the answer - I guess I should just give in and resign myself to a life of public transport and my own two legs. Thankyou for taking me back to the middle ages Transport 2000.

First against the wall?? F*cking right!

Frustrated Phil

Rich-UK

1,431 posts

287 months

Friday 21st March 2003
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The problem with hidden or hard to see cameras is you spend more time looking for them then looking for other hazards. This inherently makes you more unsafe. Paint them bright yellow.

Transport 2000 - Take your and up until it hurts, then off.

daydreamer

1,409 posts

288 months

Friday 21st March 2003
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May have said this before, but my MD is on 9 points at the moment. Never been as scared as driving with him at the moment. 70mph, cruise control, just pust his feet up and has a nap.

Not condoning this, but being forced to drive at uncomfortable speeds must increase the danger.

Rich

nobbysworld

90 posts

286 months

Friday 21st March 2003
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I have six points. I drive a morris minor. Ever seen a morris minor speedo at sixty? No, really, it happens. My point is, it oscillates like mad. Every moggy I have had did this. Sixty is best described as 55-65 ish. If you see a Black morris in the salisbury area at least ten mph below the limit, you now know why, and I can't apologise enough.