What a Joke - Thames Valley Police!
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I need to let off some steam.
I drive from Bracknell to Slough every morning, I come into Slough on the Windsor/Eton bypass - a dual carridgeway from one side of Windsor to the M4.
Guess what the Police are manning this morning. I F*^*ing traffic survey blocking one lane. This is causing the whole of Windsor grinding to a halt and added 45 min to a 20 min journey.
HELP. This strikes me as a joke. Some traffic survey company has gone to the Thames Valley Police and said 'Can we carry out a traffic survey on one of the main roads in the area during rush hour' and the Police have said YES!
What a bunch of prats!
ben
I drive from Bracknell to Slough every morning, I come into Slough on the Windsor/Eton bypass - a dual carridgeway from one side of Windsor to the M4.
Guess what the Police are manning this morning. I F*^*ing traffic survey blocking one lane. This is causing the whole of Windsor grinding to a halt and added 45 min to a 20 min journey.
HELP. This strikes me as a joke. Some traffic survey company has gone to the Thames Valley Police and said 'Can we carry out a traffic survey on one of the main roads in the area during rush hour' and the Police have said YES!
What a bunch of prats!
ben
What difference did it make other than you had another 45 minutes to ponder your itinery for the day?
No different from a prat
member of the public deciding to trash their vehicle on a busy rush hour route causing exactly the same consequences to you and everyone else without applying for permission to do so!
Traffic surveys are done to try and make things easier in future so that planning can alleviate the congestion problems. Your wasted 45 minutes this morning may save you many more minutes in the future!
Still if you only live for the moment and don't look outside the box I can see why you post things like that.
If you don't like sitting in trffic jams, then move somewhere where there is no traffic or catch the train
No different from a prat
member of the public deciding to trash their vehicle on a busy rush hour route causing exactly the same consequences to you and everyone else without applying for permission to do so! Traffic surveys are done to try and make things easier in future so that planning can alleviate the congestion problems. Your wasted 45 minutes this morning may save you many more minutes in the future!
Still if you only live for the moment and don't look outside the box I can see why you post things like that.
If you don't like sitting in trffic jams, then move somewhere where there is no traffic or catch the train
gone
It is was not the 45 minutes that really bothered me.
It was the stupidity of running this Servey at that time. The lady of the phone from Thames Valley Police said that it was causing Gridlock in Windsor!
I would not have minded if it was something run by the Police but it was an external company causing hell.
Ben
It is was not the 45 minutes that really bothered me.
It was the stupidity of running this Servey at that time. The lady of the phone from Thames Valley Police said that it was causing Gridlock in Windsor!
I would not have minded if it was something run by the Police but it was an external company causing hell.
Ben
gone
"No different from a prat member of the public deciding to trash their vehicle on a busy rush hour route causing exactly the same consequences to you and everyone else without applying for permission to do so!
"
The prat member of the public does not intend to crash their car and cause traffic chaos! That is an accident.
What happened this morning was planned by someone with a brain or not as the case may be!
Ben
"No different from a prat member of the public deciding to trash their vehicle on a busy rush hour route causing exactly the same consequences to you and everyone else without applying for permission to do so!
"
The prat member of the public does not intend to crash their car and cause traffic chaos! That is an accident.
What happened this morning was planned by someone with a brain or not as the case may be!
Ben
benmc said:
gone
It was the stupidity of running this Servey at that time. The lady of the phone from Thames Valley Police said that it was causing Gridlock in Windsor!
Maybe the reason for the survey at that time was to get information about traffic at that time
They could not get that information about that time in the morning if they did it at another time
Windsor is a place that often gridlocks in any case. Maybe that is why they were having a survey to try and find ways of preventing it. Thats why they ask stupid questions about
1 "where have you come from?"
2 "Where are you going?"
3 "What is the purpose of your journey?"
benmc said:
I would not have minded if it was something run by the Police but it was an external company causing hell.
Ben
Like I said before, it may be to your benefit in future
gone said:
gone
It was the stupidity of running this Servey at that time. The lady of the phone from Thames Valley Police said that it was causing Gridlock in Windsor!
Maybe the reason for the survey at that time was to get information about traffic at that time
They could not get that information about that time in the morning if they did it at another time
Windsor is a place that often gridlocks in any case. Maybe that is why they were having a survey to try and find ways of preventing it. Thats why they ask stupid questions about
1 "where have you come from?"
2 "Where are you going?"
3 "What is the purpose of your journey?"
In this modern day of Number Plate Reading etc there must be a better way of doing this!
Ben
benmc said:
In this modern day of Number Plate Reading etc there must be a better way of doing this!
Ben
Tomorrow, write in big white writing across the top of your windscreen.
1. Where you have come from
2. where you are going
3. the purpose of your journey.
Number plate reading will not help until they can speak or provide telepathic information
If you are stopped you are not obliged to give any information but you MUST stop!
gone said:
In this modern day of Number Plate Reading etc there must be a better way of doing this!
Ben
Tomorrow, write in big white writing across the top of your windscreen.
1. Where you have come from
2. where you are going
3. the purpose of your journey.
Number plate reading will not help until they can speak or provide telepathic information
If you are stopped you are not obliged to give any information but you MUST stop!
You can gather everything apart from the Purpose using Number Plate Reading. I am sure you could even use one of those computer things to collate the data!
Ben
benmc said:Maybe you can in theory, but I doubt whether organsiations like traffic master collect information on where every car is going. I suppose you could spend millions of pounds of taxpayers money developing a system to do it, but you'd only get people coming on here, bemoaning the waste of money and saying 'Why don't they just stop people and ask them?'
You can gather everything apart from the Purpose using Number Plate Reading. I am sure you could even use one of those computer things to collate the data!
Ben
benmc said:
You can gather everything apart from the Purpose using Number Plate Reading. I am sure you could even use one of those computer things to collate the data!
Ben
Come on Ben. Use your brain.
Car registered in Nottingham. Borrowed by a daughter from her father because hers has been crashed.
She lives in Ascot and is driving to Windsor to take the kids to school.
1. Not registered to her but her father in Nottingham
2. Registered in her fathers name which was her maiden name.
Is that the correct information that can be gained by a camera?
A camera will tell the survey that the car comes from Nottingham and nothing else. It will not tell them where it is going nor why it is on that piece of road at that particular time.
gone said:
You can gather everything apart from the Purpose using Number Plate Reading. I am sure you could even use one of those computer things to collate the data!
Ben
Come on Ben. Use your brain.
Car registered in Nottingham. Borrowed by a daughter from her father because hers has been crashed.
She lives in Ascot and is driving to Windsor to take the kids to school.
1. Not registered to her but her father in Nottingham
2. Registered in her fathers name which was her maiden name.
Is that the correct information that can be gained by a camera?
A camera will tell the survey that the car comes from Nottingham and nothing else. It will not tell them where it is going nor why it is on that piece of road at that particular time.
but most people do not fit that profile
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