OllyK

Amazing, redirect the funds from Speed Cameras away from the local Camera Partnerships and back to central government and suddenly there are more effective safety measures available than speed cameras, funny that!

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

scooby L

We'll prob see more vans as a result though....

T5NYW

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Herefordshire has in a 25 mile radius, it's all single Rural "A" roads with very little to no dual carriageways, with lorries only able to do 40mph & shed loads of Tractors/balers.

"They" have introduced Speed cameras, extended all 30's 40's & introduced 50's zones, which has nearly irradicated NSP zones, extended double white lines. We have now our main road link to worcester (21miles) daytime journey taking about 1-1.25 hours. Early in the mornings I can do it under 22mins with rigourously obeying all 30mph zones

Guess what, with all these safety innovations above, supprisingly the countys road death toll has been increasing.

IMHO what they have created

1) "Frusrated" drivers sat behind processions of slow moving traffic then overtake in stupid places.
2) "Young" drivers taking to "B" roads to avoid Cameras
3) "38mph everwhere brigade" annoying the hell out of EVERYone

IIRC

IMHO they should try the opposite create Dual carriageways creating a faster road with far safer overtaking oppurtunities.

Tony

scooby L

I could not agree more Tony

(When I said we'd probably see more vans... I was talking about speed camera..sorry SAFETY camera vans, Wiltshire's getting their money's worth out of theirs that's for sure)

StickyMicky

agreed 100%

my route to work consists of a few sections of 40 and 60mph single carrigeway

that always has a que of people following somebody at 25mph

dare try and overtake one of these 25mph warriors and get a mouthfull of abuse, lights flashing, and generall harrasment

on the 60mph section early one morning, i over took and as luck would have it, i got held up about a mile up the road at some lights, said clown then pulled alongside and started giving me grief

in the end i snapped and told him to STFU and did he relise it was a 60mph straight road?]

which of course he claims it was not, because he was to thick to notice the signs

just before the section of 60mph road starts, a scamera hotspot layby was installed to catch people speeding up early

on the other side we had one of them flashing 30mph limit signs installed to remind people of the limit at that point, honestly its been up for approx 1 month, i drove past last night and its been removed ??


the roads surrounding the car wash area are signposted at 40mph

25mph is the speed that most drive at and just makes people do stupid overtake moves in the wrong places to get past

StickyMicky

ie: the ones that flash up when you are over the limit and make you slow down without a fine

Abbylad

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Saw that whining old bag of an MP Ann Snelgrove who is opposed to it all on sky news today. She wound me up that much with her ugly mush and attitude that I instantly wanted to strangle her..........had to make do with an email of abuse instead

T5NYW

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Ah I see

Tony

T5NYW

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also Peeps who tailgate a slow car infront, they will never overtake it themselves and begrude others to do so. So you have to either overtake 2 cars or none, not a problem in a Subaru. but I've seen shed loads of "Near misses" by 1.4 fiestas etc

Tony

SmileyScooby

Take over them.....then slow down to less than they are doing.....(just for a few mins....then wave bye bye!!!!