End of the North Yorks no speed cameras policy?

[julianm]

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/5320788.Speed_came...

Has the brief details & a load of comments. Another revenue raiser if you ask me.

[JRR1967]

Interesting.

I'd like to see the list of 28 locations. If they are all main A road and/or by villages with 40 limits then who cares. Favourite hooning B roads - more of an issue.

I'll see if North Yorkshire Council has a site and list...

EDIT: No so I can find

Edited by JRR1967 on Wednesday 31st March 21:31

[Escort2dr]

It's not like they don't use scamera vans already, the Helmsley TT route being one example.

[Mr Whippy]

I've seen plod out with their guns behind trees anyway, so a big van on the quieter hooning roads will only be MORE obvious to spot anyway!

They are not a problem anywhere if you are observant (touch wood haha)


My concern is that they will stop TrafPol going out and about, and they are what are needed to keep the roads safe in practice

Only this Sunday I had to do braking and diving for the kerb about 10 times for the 7 miles from North Rigton to Timble as dumbass Sunday drivers were cutting the blind corners everywhere!
I'd have given ten "dwdc & t" on Sunday, and possibly a load more for not making safe progress with idiots dawdling at 35mph on national limit sections!


Unfortunately the speed cameras won't work to do much for overall safety, but people will have to pay with their lives to prove the policy is wrong

[grahamw48]

IMHO it's the damned plethora of street 'furniture' that is distracting drivers already,and more likely to cause confusion and thus accidents.

For goodness sake get rid of all the crap painted on the roads, and lining the sides, so that we can all concentrate on our DRIVING !

If I've just seen a big sign saying '30' I don't need to READ it written across the bloody road, or have my teeth rattled by raised pink stripes !

Stop wasting my taxes !!!

[julianm]

Well it looks like it would have been a waste of time setting one up on the A64 today .....
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/7717812.Massive_qu...

[AndyMil]

Yep, came down there at about 12ish, loads of queueing traffic Scarboro bound, but 4 plod vehicles sat at end of various sliproads hoping for a speeder, maybe if the limit was 20, but no chance at 70.

[whoami]

julianm said:

Well it looks like it would have been a waste of time setting one up on the A64 today .....
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/7717812.Massive_qu...

What a fking surprise.

All the money and disruption spend on this could have been avoided.

It was obvious from the start that funnelling traffic into a single carriageway was a total farce.

Some of these aholes need firing.

Tits

[grahamw48]

Dual-carriageway to Scarborough 30 years overdue, also to Hull, and right around York.

How much have we spent on doomed wars, foreign aid to banana republics, non-functional IT systems, bailing out banks, etc,etc. Tossing governments!

[whoami]

grahamw48 said:

Dual-carriageway to Scarborough 30 years overdue, also to Hull, and right around York.

How much have we spent on doomed wars, foreign aid to banana republics, non-functional IT systems, bailing out banks, etc,etc. Tossing governments!

Agreed.

I drive that road everyday and it was obvious that the proposed scheme would only work in the retarded "brain" of some ahole from the Highways Agency.

What a fking joke.

Can I have my money back please?

[Escort2dr]

Seems to have alleviated a lot of peak time queueing though, but I agree it was obvious it'd never work for the usual Bank Holiday caravanning traffic and all the Wessies going up to t'coast.

[whoami]

Escort2dr said:

Seems to have alleviated a lot of peak time queueing though, but I agree it was obvious it'd never work for the usual Bank Holiday caravanning traffic and all the Wessies going up to t'coast.

I drive home that way every evening and have never really seen any queues apart from at peak holiday times.

As for the need for traffic lights on the roundabout during the day, don't get me started.

[grahamw48]

Should have just built a blinkin flyover

Keep moving holidaymakers....we're full.

[julianm]

I get the same at 06.40 most days `oh here he comes again - switch to red` then sit while NO other vehicles turn across me, before I`m sent on my way again. As long as the 2 into 1 exists before the cafe it`ll never get any better at overload times - but of course you`ll still have to pause to let people out after their breakfast. Especially in their mobile homes.

[whoami]

julianm said:

I get the same at 06.40 most days `oh here he comes again - switch to red` then sit while NO other vehicles turn across me, before I`m sent on my way again. As long as the 2 into 1 exists before the cafe it`ll never get any better at overload times - but of course you`ll still have to pause to let people out after their breakfast. Especially in their mobile homes.

Spot on.

[Mr Whippy]

whoami said:

Escort2dr said:

Seems to have alleviated a lot of peak time queueing though, but I agree it was obvious it'd never work for the usual Bank Holiday caravanning traffic and all the Wessies going up to t'coast.

I drive home that way every evening and have never really seen any queues apart from at peak holiday times.

As for the need for traffic lights on the roundabout during the day, don't get me started.

Traffic lights on roundabouts are a bit of a pet hate of mine. OK if the roundabout is so badly congested that you need to bring in control, but how often is that to then have them disrupt flow 99.9% of the rest of the time!

Grrr...

Looks like money well spent there then

DC'ing the lot would shirley be cheaper in the long run, and bring improved business/industry/tourism to that part of the East coast and inland areas, EASILY repaying the cost of the road upgrades?!

Dave

[grahamw48]

Planners were pleaded with to dual up the ringroad right around York all those years ago, but as usual the fools thought they knew better...and it was going to cost a few quid more. How much now ?

AND of course the A64 to the East coast.

Edited by grahamw48 on Sunday 4th April 14:27