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Speed on Green camera
Not sure how many there are in the country but we have one in Poole and it seems to be causing a bit of controversy.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-road-row.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...placement.html |
Plenty on the A580 Liverpool to Manchester.
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You know, there was a time when I thought these things were a plain menace to road users. BUT With the increasing amount of idiot driver who just can't pay attention to their driving and what is happening arond them, I see them nowadays as only catching rubbish driver who aren't paying attention. Call it a stupidity tax if you will. The only thing I'm against is the revenue earnt doesn't go back into our road infrastructure.
In the end of the day, they are huge and brightly coloured (unlike the ones in Spain) so really if you don't see it or not aware of the speed limit, then maybe one should be fined for not paying attention? OK, I don't like it when they hide them (which is rare these days), and when they purposely lower limits for no valid reason. Hell, I spent the best part of a year in Spain driving past a hidden speed camera without realising and was never fined (they sign post them now), mainly because I kept to the speed limit. Am I lucky or was it because I observed the law? What annoys me more is people who slow down for them even when going below the posted speed limit, there have been times during quiet periods I have actually overtaken them - sometimes the look on their faces was priceless. |
Originally Posted by ALi-B
(Post 9485783)
You know, there was a time when I thought these things were a plain menace to road users. BUT With the increasing amount of idiot driver who just can't pay attention to their driving and what is happening arond them, I see them nowadays as only catching rubbish driver who aren't paying attention. Call it a stupidity tax if you will. The only thing I'm against is the revenue earnt doesn't go back into our road infrastructure.
In the end of the day, they are huge and brightly coloured (unlike the ones in Spain) so really if you don't see it or not aware of the speed limit, then maybe one should be fined for not paying attention? OK, I don't like it when they hide them (which is rare these days), and when they purposely lower limits for no valid reason. Hell, I spent the best part of a year in Spain driving past a hidden speed camera without realising and was never fined (they sign post them now), mainly because I kept to the speed limit. Am I lucky or was it because I observed the law? What annoys me more is people who slow down for them even when going below the posted speed limit, there have been times during quiet periods I have actually overtaken them - sometimes the look on their faces was priceless. |
Thankfully this forum doesn't have any bad spelling/grammar detecting cameras yet :o
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Originally Posted by ALi-B
(Post 9485917)
Thankfully this forum doesn't have any bad spelling/grammar detecting cameras yet :o
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Many people will slow to less than the speed limit because they don't trust the cameras to get it right every time. I know they dont need to but it is still understandable when they don't understand how they work, or suspect their own speedo might be reading slow.
Les |
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