Hampshire - Reduce traffic with speed cameras.

[sadako]

Greetings. I am doing my homework whilst preparing to possibly defend my job, car and house from Hampshire SCP. Should I have been over the limit, or the equipment was malfunctioning as it often does, I'll have 6 points on a licence i'm 5 months short of having for 2 years. I do 20k miles a year both in my own car and company provided vehicles so it was only a matter of time.

I'm google searching to see what kind of equipment hampshire uses and low and behold look what turns up. In a random convergance of hypertext I happen upon this little beauty, right at the beginning of the page.

www.hants.gov.uk/environment/ltp/section5/rdsafety/19.html

Hants.gov.uk said:

This approach can be assisted by curbing traffic volumes overall and via directed demand and speed management policies and strategies, which act to reduce motorised traffic in unsuitable areas, particularly where there is potential for high levels of pedestrian, cycling and child activity. An important strand of such a strategy will be ongoing measures to curtail excessive and inappropriate vehicle speed, the leading single road casualty cause

Naturally the camera was aimed where there are 3 lanes on my side and a large open grass verge, and a pavement on the side. You'd also expect to see lots of kids going to school at 2pm on a sunday, and pedestrians in general crossing the road with railings and underpasses.

I hate this country...

>>> Edited by sadako on Monday 4th April 23:48

[trax]

They will never get the irony that by targeting the least cause of accidents, they are adding to the rising deaths each year. One day someone may sue these dimwits for corporate manslaughter, but I very much doubt it.

[streaky]

It seems to me that PHers have long deprecated "inappropriate vehicle speed" - Streaky

[Don]

Hmph!

Have you *ever* seen a speed camera on a housing estate in Hampshire?

Not once. Too difficult to do. So the very places where you get cycles, kids playing, pets and so on.....no speed enforcement. Nope. Instead its done on the A303 - three lane highway with traffic all travelling in the same direction.

Its just about the money. More now than ever.

[supraman2954]

sadako said:

.....Naturally the camera was aimed where there are 3 lanes on my side and a large open grass verge, and a pavement on the side. You'd also expect to see lots of kids going to school at 2pm on a sunday, and pedestrians in general crossing the road with railings and underpasses. I hate this country...

Bummer mate.
Which scamera do you think might have done you?

[ohopkins]

Some interesting stuff on that weblink, thanks.

[supraman2954]

yeah, "speeding is socially undesirable"

Damn, I went for a blat along the B2177 on Sunday, a good B road for a bit of speed.

[Flat in Fifth]

Might have missed it on another thread but was the road you were possibly zapped on shown on either of the two following pdfs?

www.aatrust.com/aamotoringtrust/pdf/roadrating_gb_south_east.pdf

and

www.aatrust.com/aamotoringtrust/pdf/roadrating_gb_south_west.pdf

[streaky]

supraman2954 said:

yeah, "speeding is socially undesirable" Damn, I went for a blat along the B2177 on Sunday, a good B road for a bit of speed.

You socially undesirable you! How many deaths did you cause by your extreme speed?

Streaky

[james_j]

Don said:

Its just about the money. More now than ever.

Indeed it is, including the mobile van operators chasing overtime and no doubt bonuses. Grubby.

[Don]

ohopkins said:

Some interesting stuff on that weblink, thanks.

Blimey! So the A339 Basingstoke to Alton isn't a priority? You could have fooled me...and it isn't without some reason - every year numbers of people do themselves in on it...

[supraman2954]

streaky said:

supraman2954 said: yeah, "speeding is socially undesirable" Damn, I went for a blat along the B2177 on Sunday, a good B road for a bit of speed. You socially undesirable you! How many deaths did you cause by your extreme speed? Streaky

....only some bugs (I can imagine Begg jumping up and down in fury), well, they should have checked that the road is clear before flying out in front of me

I'll miss the B2177; it was the first ever road where I really put my foot down - happy memories

[sadako]

Section 4 closest to portsmouth.

The PDFs FiF posted do not list the road. It is the "old" A27 running parallel to the M27. Both the M27 and A27 in that area are listed on the risk map as white low risk roads.

For all the PHers in the area, if you are heading towards portchester after port solent, the 2 lane 40 goes to 1 lane 40. At the lights for the castle trading estate this goes to 2 lane 30. At these lights the central reservation has a wide bit. The bike was on that with the tripod beside it. The scammer was pointing towards the roundabout with what appeared to be a 20-20. The bike was on the side closest to the westbound side, rear facing the r/bout. The top box was open with a 4" camera sign in it.
There were no warning signs aside from this from the direction of station road, where I had come from.

[The pirate]

Why the name Sadako?

You say it was only a matter of time, well wont it just happen again even if you got away with it?

There is this neat trick to avoid speed tickets, it never fails, I would tell everyone, but most people find it dificult to do.

But I will tell you if you can solve this riddle;

Dooshite sono namae sukatteirun?

[The pirate]

Still waiting

[Globulators]

An anagram of: Nauseous heatstroke domination?
Follow partnership employees cars and use their plates?
Drive slowly everywhere (involves a fundamental reversal of human nature honed by millions of years of evolution implanted risk assessment)
Scrap speeding tickets?