Horsebox Speed Camera. How low they stoop!

[makatya]

Just read the article in MSN about the Police now using any method they see fit to catch speedind motorists and bikers, nothing to do with safety just revenue.


http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults...

What are your thoughts on this method of enforcing road safety?

Gob smacked!

[y2blade]

North wales has been getting very narked with mongs putting themselves into the scenery for a while now

the North wales police have to put a stop to it!

dont they?

Edited by y2blade on Tuesday 22 April 09:43

[Pugsey]

This is hilarious - in a bad way. I was in services area loo (for purely innocent purposes!) in darkest Wales last w/e and they've (Welsh Tourist Board) got a poster campaign running extoling the virtues of Wales as a riding destination for bikers. It features copy along the lines of 'wide open spaces and fantastic roads' or some such twaddle and features a large picture of a superbike well cranked over into a corner. From memory I think the rider even had a tinted visor..........................

Edited by Pugsey on Tuesday 22 April 11:07

[black-k1]

y2blade said:

North wales has been getting very narked with mongs putting themselves into the scenery for a while now

the North wales police have to put a stop to it!

dont they?

Totally agree with that but I would have to ask, "is one of the main reasons for such events because said mongs are exceeding the speed limit"? After all, that is the ONLY thing that a camera can detect? Also, is this horse box going to be placed on the twisty mountain roads where I expect most mong/scenery interfaces occur or will it be placed, as shown on the video, on roads where visibility, road surface, traffic conditions etc. are all good?

Likewise, would lots of bright yellow florescent jacketed uniformed plod not have a better result in "focusing the minds" of road users rather than a nasty little envelope arriving 2 weeks later.

This is not a get at you y2blade, but a get at a system that has ordinary people being ‘hoodwinked’ into believing that such things are done for ‘their own good’ when there is absolutely no real evidence to support that.

I’ll get off my soapbox now!

[makatya]

I just think that if it was all about road safety, educating riders and promoting the fact that you can enjoy your bike and the great roads of the UK in a safe manner then fine but when these underhanded ways are used that serve no purpose but a financial one then it sends out the wrong signal. Money and Nanny state.

[NorthernBoy]

I have yet to see a camera on the entry to a dangerous bend, or where you have adverse camber, or are likely to have frost long after the rest of the roads are cleared.

They don't have them before blind crests, on roads with bad visibility, or just before you come out into blinding sunshine from a dark forest.

Instead, they seem to be on the clear straight with good visibility, after five miles of bends. They are just after the 30 dsign one mile from a village, and on the urban motorway with 30mph limits on a road safe at 100.

Basically, they seem to proliferate exactly where people can safely exceed the limit, and not in places where speeding tends to be dangerous.

Strange, that.

[Beemer-5]

A biker i know in Cannock said that they got someone for 138 mph (in a 60) last month from the horse box.
I bet he won't be on his bike this summer!

[RizzoTheRat]

After all the talk about North Wales zero tolerence policy on speed I was quite suprised when in North Wales for a weekend last summer to not see a single speed camera the whole weekend. Plus the best roads we found were the seriously twisty ones where you can't get that much over the speed limit anyway.

The best police attitude to biking I've come across was in Scotland last year. Pulled up at St Mary's Loch where there's a very busy biker cafe, and there's a couple of bike coppers wandering around having friendly chats about bikes and local roads, and handing out these little maps showing some really good local routes marked up with where there had been several accidents, where there was a dodgy road surface or adverse camber, etc. Very impressed by thier attitude.

[y2blade]

how about a nice builders van?

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/mcn/2008/april/21-27/apr2208/?&R=EPI-99999 

[makatya]

RizzoTheRat said:

The best police attitude to biking I've come across was in Scotland last year. Pulled up at St Mary's Loch where there's a very busy biker cafe, and there's a couple of bike coppers wandering around having friendly chats about bikes and local roads, and handing out these little maps showing some really good local routes marked up with where there had been several accidents, where there was a dodgy road surface or adverse camber, etc. Very impressed by their attitude.

Way to go! If the BIB and the Gov really wanted to save lives and educate people then I think that this is the way forward. Remember when you where a kid and someone said NO! You would just go and do it for the hell of it but if someone sat you down and gave you the facts and information so that you could make a decision based on that then you would probably do the right thing. It's human nature at the end of the day. None of us want to get smashed up but in this nanny state why don't they treat us like adults and give us the stats. I know you are all gonna bounce back and say that we can all make our own decisions but hey a few of hard facts and a bit of respect from the BIB goes a long way.