New SPECS on the M62
30 July 2001, 12:13 AM
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Best keep an eye on my end of the M62 too next year - West Yorks police are joining the "keep the fines and screw the motorist" brigade from next April I believe 
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30 July 2001, 10:46 AM
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Went through the road works twice yesterday on the M62 around Burtonwood services (J7 / J8 IIRC)
To my untrained eye, there were some pairs of blue masts going up alongside the M62 which distinctly looked like they would be for a SPECS system. No cameras on them at present.
Don't go that way that often but one to watch our for perhaps?
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To my untrained eye, there were some pairs of blue masts going up alongside the M62 which distinctly looked like they would be for a SPECS system. No cameras on them at present.
Don't go that way that often but one to watch our for perhaps?
ChrisB.
30 July 2001, 07:43 PM
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I hate to say this, but this continual persecution of the motorist will only end in tears.
Either the reputation of police will be so bad, nobody will cooperate with them(even though they just carry out the policies) OR there will be such a backlash it will make the fuel crisis look like a few beardy's waving home made banners.
Why does everything have to go too far before anything is done? People knew the fuel protests were brewing months before they were staged. Same with this thing.
I've often wondered if the rise of blame culture, Political correctness gone mad and the insidious nature of the popular media is because, as a country we've run out of bad guys.
In the 40's there were the ****'s, the whole country rallied against them. Then there were the Soviets. In my lifetime I really saw the county pull together during the Falklands and Gulf War. Crime dropped right down and people had a cause to fight for.
Now unlike George Orwell's 1984 I'm not saying that we should always be at war, just to keep the population happy. BUT the lack of national focus does seem IMHO to be one of the main causes of society splintering into several selfish self centered do gooding groups.
So don't blame the police, what we need is a good war to bring people back together again
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Either the reputation of police will be so bad, nobody will cooperate with them(even though they just carry out the policies) OR there will be such a backlash it will make the fuel crisis look like a few beardy's waving home made banners.
Why does everything have to go too far before anything is done? People knew the fuel protests were brewing months before they were staged. Same with this thing.
I've often wondered if the rise of blame culture, Political correctness gone mad and the insidious nature of the popular media is because, as a country we've run out of bad guys.
In the 40's there were the ****'s, the whole country rallied against them. Then there were the Soviets. In my lifetime I really saw the county pull together during the Falklands and Gulf War. Crime dropped right down and people had a cause to fight for.
Now unlike George Orwell's 1984 I'm not saying that we should always be at war, just to keep the population happy. BUT the lack of national focus does seem IMHO to be one of the main causes of society splintering into several selfish self centered do gooding groups.
So don't blame the police, what we need is a good war to bring people back together again
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