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A new road. Or to be more exact, two new stretches of beautiful road. Fantastically designed. Great surface. Wonderful visibility. Good lighting. Long sweeping slip roads. If any road was designed fro the modern car then this is it. An absolute credit to modern road designers. For the sake of argument we'll call it 'A43' and we'll imagine that these stretches run between the fictional towns of 'Towcester' and 'Brackley'.
Now, say you have some mobile camera vans. Where would you put them? Outside the local school perhaps? Or that vicious accident blackspot where 5 roads meet elsewhere in the county? Or would you litter them all over this beatiful new road? To justify your decision you might designate this road a 'red route' based on statistics. You may however, discount the fact that these statistics were gathered prior to the opening of the new road (and the old road was indeed a dangerous little lane).
Actually, the proliferation of cameras around this area and the fact that I have been driving it for 3 days now has set me thinking. I reckon speeding is etched into the errant drivers pysche. They need and want to speed sometimes. Not necessarily recklessly, or for an adrenaline buzz, they just do, perhaps because they trust their own skills, or their modern car, which makes 120 mph feel like 50 mph. To avoid being caught, these people have started to take their filthy habit off the main roads where the cameras and the safety vans live, and now practice their dark art on rural country lanes, least equipped to handle fast motor cars. In doing so they endanger children, walkers, flashers, axe murderers and ocassional sheep.
If we could educate these people, perhaps this wouldn't happen...
Now, say you have some mobile camera vans. Where would you put them? Outside the local school perhaps? Or that vicious accident blackspot where 5 roads meet elsewhere in the county? Or would you litter them all over this beatiful new road? To justify your decision you might designate this road a 'red route' based on statistics. You may however, discount the fact that these statistics were gathered prior to the opening of the new road (and the old road was indeed a dangerous little lane).
Actually, the proliferation of cameras around this area and the fact that I have been driving it for 3 days now has set me thinking. I reckon speeding is etched into the errant drivers pysche. They need and want to speed sometimes. Not necessarily recklessly, or for an adrenaline buzz, they just do, perhaps because they trust their own skills, or their modern car, which makes 120 mph feel like 50 mph. To avoid being caught, these people have started to take their filthy habit off the main roads where the cameras and the safety vans live, and now practice their dark art on rural country lanes, least equipped to handle fast motor cars. In doing so they endanger children, walkers, flashers, axe murderers and ocassional sheep.
If we could educate these people, perhaps this wouldn't happen...
Know the road you mean and its a joke....Maybe they have a shortfall in the profit (sorry revenue) from speed cameras (sorry safety cameras) in the local area and need to ensure that they make up the quota (sorry improve safety).... its a fine line and I can help thinking that a decent investigative journo could make a cracking story about all of these instances....
Cheers,
Paul
Cheers,
Paul
That's just like the new A55 extension from Bangor to Holyhead.
The old road (A5) used to be a twisty little country A-road with lots of little villages and houses opening directly onto the road.
This new road is 4 lanes of dual-carriageway, straight for 2 miles at a time and is supposed to be the bypass for all these villages.
On my first trip down there a week after it opened I was travelling well within the capability of my vehicle and I came over the crest of a rise to see the land open out in front of me and visibility increase to about 10 miles (you could see the road for that far). I also noticed a car parked in a layby about a mile down the road, just before a bridge over the carriageway.
I lifted off the throttle and eased down to 80, and as I cruised passed the patrol car I glanced at the copper sitting there watching a screen with one eye and the road with the other, with his finger on the trigger of a hand-held laser device.
At this point I assumed I would be receiving a few more points in the near future, but none ever arrived!
Now this road had been open less than a week and already the police are targeting motorists on a road that has no history of accidents, instead of the smaller road that has a long history of accidents (hence the new bypass).
It's actually safer and more enjoyable to drive the old road as there are no cameras, no police and no traffic - just kids, parked cars, old people, potholes, adverse camber, raised drains, etc.
The old road (A5) used to be a twisty little country A-road with lots of little villages and houses opening directly onto the road.
This new road is 4 lanes of dual-carriageway, straight for 2 miles at a time and is supposed to be the bypass for all these villages.
On my first trip down there a week after it opened I was travelling well within the capability of my vehicle and I came over the crest of a rise to see the land open out in front of me and visibility increase to about 10 miles (you could see the road for that far). I also noticed a car parked in a layby about a mile down the road, just before a bridge over the carriageway.
I lifted off the throttle and eased down to 80, and as I cruised passed the patrol car I glanced at the copper sitting there watching a screen with one eye and the road with the other, with his finger on the trigger of a hand-held laser device.
At this point I assumed I would be receiving a few more points in the near future, but none ever arrived!
Now this road had been open less than a week and already the police are targeting motorists on a road that has no history of accidents, instead of the smaller road that has a long history of accidents (hence the new bypass).
It's actually safer and more enjoyable to drive the old road as there are no cameras, no police and no traffic - just kids, parked cars, old people, potholes, adverse camber, raised drains, etc.
not sure what's going on with PH of late. There's alot of users who think anyone that's speeding or breaking any road laws should go to jail - when we start complaining about over enthusiastic police revenue generating !
"oh you shouldn't be speeding then"
"oh you should of been wearing your selt belt ! "
"oh you shouldn't be speeding then"
"oh you should of been wearing your selt belt ! "
Perhaps we have been infiltrated. It would make sense when we see polls which are ridiculess we just vote it out. The recent Guild of Experiance Motorists, should vehicles be limited to 70 cobblers, is an example. So what better way for the tree huggers and transport 2000 lunatics than to post on here and try to influence us by trying to subvert rational discussions and to try to make us agree with them, it'll never work.
A new road. Or to be more exact, two new stretches of beautiful road. Fantastically designed. Great surface. Wonderful visibility. Good lighting. Long sweeping slip roads. If any road was designed fro the modern car then this is it. An absolute credit to modern road designers. For the sake of argument we'll call it 'A43' and we'll imagine that these stretches run between the fictional towns of 'Towcester' and 'Brackley'.
yeah who you gonna educate m8 the Plods or the flashers?
Now, say you have some mobile camera vans. Where would you put them? Outside the local school perhaps? Or that vicious accident blackspot where 5 roads meet elsewhere in the county? Or would you litter them all over this beatiful new road? To justify your decision you might designate this road a 'red route' based on statistics. You may however, discount the fact that these statistics were gathered prior to the opening of the new road (and the old road was indeed a dangerous little lane).
Actually, the proliferation of cameras around this area and the fact that I have been driving it for 3 days now has set me thinking. I reckon speeding is etched into the errant drivers pysche. They need and want to speed sometimes. Not necessarily recklessly, or for an adrenaline buzz, they just do, perhaps because they trust their own skills, or their modern car, which makes 120 mph feel like 50 mph. To avoid being caught, these people have started to take their filthy habit off the main roads where the cameras and the safety vans live, and now practice their dark art on rural country lanes, least equipped to handle fast motor cars. In doing so they endanger children, walkers, flashers, axe murderers and ocassional sheep.
If we could educate these people, perhaps this wouldn't happen...
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