Lights to turn red for speeding drivers...
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I like the "instead of a fine" bit though..
Something tells me the government won't go for this anyway, as it doesn't make money..
quote:What do they take to enable them to come up with these ideas?
A speed trap that halts motorists instead of fining them could be the next weapon against those who drive too fast.
It detects the speed of drivers as they approach traffic lights and automatically switches the lights to red if the speed limit is being broken.
I like the "instead of a fine" bit though..
Something tells me the government won't go for this anyway, as it doesn't make money..
That mechanism has been in use in Spain for donkey's years. It really does work in slowing down traffic through town. If there are lights every couple of hundred metres, as there are in most UK towns and cities, if you _knew_ that each one would turn red if you were speeding, and it did so significantly before you could reach it, could you honestly be bothered to speed-slow for sensor-speed again?
sounds like a good idea to me. it means traffic jams= slow moving traffic gets priority, therefore removing the jam. and encouraging sensible speed at the same time.
I like a whizz, but I slow down approaching lights due to the dangerous that surround them, so quiet happy with the idea.
thought you guys would appreciate these?
I like a whizz, but I slow down approaching lights due to the dangerous that surround them, so quiet happy with the idea.
thought you guys would appreciate these?
Hasn't this existed in one form for a while. I'm sure there is a stretch of road (can't remember where now) with a load o traffic lights. They are set so that if you travel at the speed limit you will go through all of them at green. If you speed (or dawdle too much), you catch them at red.
Personally I don't have a problem with that (as long as they don't start putting gratuitous lights down oherwise empty, fast, safe roads!)
Personally I don't have a problem with that (as long as they don't start putting gratuitous lights down oherwise empty, fast, safe roads!)
There is a road in Leicester (Melton road) that has loads of traffic lights (in the guiness book of records as a matter of fact for the most per mile). They are literally every 50 yards. They are set so that they go green as you approrach from the previous light. The theory is that you get caught by one set then when they change you will be able to get straight through all of them. Its utter B*ll*cks of course because a bit a traffic and it grinds to a halt. Most locals just avoid that road. 
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Hasn't this existed in one form for a while. I'm sure there is a stretch of road (can't remember where now) with a load o traffic lights. They are set so that if you travel at the speed limit you will go through all of them at green. If you speed (or dawdle too much), you catch them at red.
Personally I don't have a problem with that (as long as they don't start putting gratuitous lights down oherwise empty, fast, safe roads!)
There was a stretch of road in Slough like this.
- Manek -
There was a stretch of road in Slough like this.
- Manek -
Indeed. It was called (still is, funnily enough) the A4. Somehow, the system doesn't seem to be working any more (well not the times I've been through Sluff in the last few years!) and the locals would probably give you a totally different view as to the meaning of a red light......
......Ooooo I didn't say that did I?
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What do they take to enable them to come up with these ideas?
they take a trip to Germany or Italy where they've had this for years. Why have I changed from being an EEC fanatic to an EEC hater? Because all the time some poxy bureacrat is being invited to another EEC country and picking up all these poxy ideas.
Rgds WalterU
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Why have I changed from being an EEC fanatic to an EEC hater? Because all the time some poxy bureacrat is being invited to another EEC country and picking up all these poxy ideas.
These Information gathering trips also cost us hundreds of thousands of pounds and we are getting some Unelected t*****er who probably is quite anally retentive and not good enough to get a job in the real world setting out Laws for all.
quote:There's a famous stretch in London (not so famous that I can remember where it is though) that has this, and cabbies talk of "riding the green wave" like surfer dudes.
Hasn't this existed in one form for a while. I'm sure there is a stretch of road (can't remember where now) with a load o traffic lights. They are set so that if you travel at the speed limit you will go through all of them at green. If you speed (or dawdle too much), you catch them at red.
I was in a taxi in Liverpool many years ago where much the same thing happened. We were convinced the driver was dawdling until we realised that every single set of traffic lights we came to was green - he had timed each to perfection and was "riding the green wave" for us for the whole of our journey.
>> Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 19th February 22:00
Hi chaps, the "Grüne Welle" has been in Germany since 1964 and works extremely well. Especially on the B1 the old Ruhrschnellweg (Ruhr fast? way). One could drive from Düsseldorf to Dortmund following the posted light speeds and not hit one single red light!!! over 120km!
BUT in the mean time they are posting "approach sensitive" lights in some villages in the middle of nowhere, whereby they automatically go to red when you approach, no matter what time of day or night or traffic conditions. This is usually put up in a 2 horse village with 150m long 50km speed limit to stop those "d**** racers". Occasionally it is put there with reason but when an electronic highwaymann is coupled to it, just another instance of highway robbery
BUT in the mean time they are posting "approach sensitive" lights in some villages in the middle of nowhere, whereby they automatically go to red when you approach, no matter what time of day or night or traffic conditions. This is usually put up in a 2 horse village with 150m long 50km speed limit to stop those "d**** racers". Occasionally it is put there with reason but when an electronic highwaymann is coupled to it, just another instance of highway robbery
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