Swindon considering abandoning speed cameras .......

What do you reckon? Will speed and deaths increase?

 

Crikey,don't tell me the police will have to go out to work instead of counting the governments piggy banks.

They will be like moles seeing daylight.

Go for it Swindon

 

BBC NEWS | England | Wiltshire | Town may cut speed camera funding

Yeah right...

Top 100 speed cameras fine drivers £18m - Telegraph

And I suppose those camera's could never be replaced with calming schemes could they?

 

theres a road near me, duel carrageway, cliffs each side and its 40mph, been 5 deaths in the past 2 years so they put it at 40mph.



all from jumpers off the bridge that crosses the gorge not road accidents

 

I live in Swindon and this has virtually happened already, a few static cameras are gone or covered up and you very rarely see the plod with a laser camera. If you do they're always in the same place.

Of course I don't condone speeding what-so-ever so this will make no difference to a law abiding citizen such as myself.

PS. Good things to come out of Swindon.....M4!

 

They only reason they're getting rid of them is that it costs the council to run them, and then they don't get to keep all the revenue that the cameras rake in.

Some are still working though, I see the ones on Blunsdon hill catching people most days.

 

and another couple....

 

They interviewed somone on the radio, she said;

'We get a lot of joyriders, without the cameras their speeding will be worse'

Scuse me, they've stolen the car, do you really think a ticket, which won't get as far as them, will bother them?!

 

Which road is that? I'm struggling to think of anywhere with two cliffs

 

Think its a bit of cry baby, Goverment takes all the money and gives none to the local council.

 

Originally the councils got all the money from fines, but now of course they just get a grant back from some of the cash.

It will probably mean that people will drive a little bit faster, but if they have any sense they would keep speedcams in dangerous places such as schools, hospitals etc. Its the ones purely to raise revenue which should be binned.

Wonder how many road deaths they tend to get in Swindon anyway. Isn't that the place with the daft set of roundabouts. Bit like the "Scilly Isles" in between Kingston, Surrey and Esher.

Les

 

I forsee Swindon becoming the choice of location for all car meets in the future ..

 

Good idea Swiss.... that way everyone can do battle with this beastie:



Which, in reality, is a great junction - and actually very efficient...

 

Pfft, that's a piddling effort compared to the version in hemel.

 

Ah, but it was the first

 

It is funny seeing the utter horror mixed with confusion when you see someone approach one for the first time.

They almost invariably automatically go round clockwise, rather than take the shortest route.

 

That is why they named it the Magic roundabout after the guy who designed it must have been on the stuff

 

on another side removing cameras is a bad thing for the average motorist as lets face it its a big box on a stick thats not hidden so you have to be pretty much driving without due care and attention to get caught. To me it means there will be more chance of plod going out and hiding behind bushes etc and I know which I prefer

 

Yup, and its not like they are going to abandon road safety. Fancy driving down a dual carriageway with sleeping policemen?

Never was the old adage, "Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it" more apt.

 

I love the magic roundabout. SO funny watching people on it they just dont know what to do.

 

never had them in York!

 

If you look at that photo you can see the logic, but how do you work that out the first time you arrive at it?

Les

 

It's easy - you just ignore the complexity and treat each of the mini-roundabouts as a roundabout in its own right, and stop give-way and proceed as you would with any other roundabout. Getting in the correct lane for each one can be an issue, given the short length of some of the approaches but other than that it's easy.

You don't really treat the middle main part of the roundabout as one, as you stop at giveway points as you go round it (the wrong way) - just concentrate on the mini ones and you can't go wrong.

The best part is that there are always multiple ways across it.

DN

 

Yes I can see all that, but at ground level approaching it for the first time is a different story isn't it?

Les

 

Leslie - yes, first time - scarey as hell!

 

It had me going the first time I arrived at it!

Les

 

My next town/village, Pulborough, is getting camera free as the "lads" set fire to one this week.

Mustn't laugh................








te-he

 

Stoopid having roundabouts like that...its not as if half the people on the roads are smart cookies is it? I mean, I am out there Imagine what I would do if I got to a roundabout like that