Speed cameras axed over funding
22-08-2010, 20:17
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Re: Speed cameras axed over funding
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Not round here. I cant think of a single one.
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22-08-2010, 20:21
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Re: Speed cameras axed over funding
Loads round here.. (which is also local to vanman)
Whether a locale has 20mph zones or not it till doesn't stop the fact that no matter what the speed limit is the police will enforce it..
As I've always said in many a forum (especially the biking ones) if you don't want to worry about speed cameras then don't speed 
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22-08-2010, 20:21
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Re: Speed cameras axed over funding
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Not round here. I cant think of a single one.
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Actually, he's right. Nottingham has no 20mph zones that I can think of. Even in the throat of the city centre it's still 30mph.
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22-08-2010, 20:24
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Re: Speed cameras axed over funding
8% of the roads in Leeds have a 20MPH speed limit, including about 70% of those near schools.
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22-08-2010, 20:24
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22-08-2010, 20:53
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Re: Speed cameras axed over funding
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Originally Posted by Kymmy
Loads round here.. (which is also local to vanman)
Whether a locale has 20mph zones or not it till doesn't stop the fact that no matter what the speed limit is the police will enforce it..
As I've always said in many a forum (especially the biking ones) if you don't want to worry about speed cameras then don't speed |
yer load of 20mph zones none have got cameras on them but in London they want all urban areas to be 20mph
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Hackney said it wanted 20mph limits on all its residential roads.
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"Average speed cameras on London's back roads will massively increase the opportunity to charge motorists.”
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22-08-2010, 22:02
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Re: Speed cameras axed over funding
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Average speed cameras on London's back roads will massively increase the opportunity to charge motorists.”
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only if they go faster than the speed limit....
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22-08-2010, 22:22
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Re: Speed cameras axed over funding
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only if they go faster than the speed limit....
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When I'm in the mood I drive at 30mph on a 30mph road. I gradually see a queue forming behind me and I can tell they're not very happy. I only do it to prove to myself that it's impossible for everyone to do the required speed limit for longer than say a few seconds.
a tip for going through these average speed cameras. if you know you've gone over, then stop for a while before coming out the other end.
your average speed will probably work out as walking pace that way. 
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22-08-2010, 22:45
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Re: Speed cameras axed over funding
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yer load of 20mph zones none have got cameras on them but in London they want all urban areas to be 20mph
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Hackney is part of London, but it is not London.
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23-08-2010, 08:29
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Re: Speed cameras axed over funding
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When I'm in the mood I drive at 30mph on a 30mph road. I gradually see a queue forming behind me and I can tell they're not very happy. I only do it to prove to myself that it's impossible for everyone to do the required speed limit for longer than say a few seconds.
a tip for going through these average speed cameras. if you know you've gone over, then stop for a while before coming out the other end.
your average speed will probably work out as walking pace that way. |
Surely it would be less inconvenient for yourself just to drive at 30?
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23-08-2010, 10:45
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Re: Speed cameras axed over funding
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BTW according to Clarkson on a dual carriageway with average speed sensing if you switch lanes between cameras the system won't register you. Not that I'd want to test it though.
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That used to be correct upto a point as the camera's were paired (though not always in the same lane) so you had to go through both paired cameras to register an average speed.
These days though all the cameras can be interconnected so it doesn't matter which lane you're in..
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23-08-2010, 15:33
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Re: Speed cameras axed over funding
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Surely it would be less inconvenient for yourself just to drive at 30?
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30 will cost you a £95 fine.
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23-08-2010, 17:52
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Re: Speed cameras axed over funding
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a tip for going through these average speed cameras. if you know you've gone over, then stop for a while before coming out the other end.
your average speed will probably work out as walking pace that way. |
sounds a bit bloody dangerous to me ,hope i never end up behind you
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23-08-2010, 17:55
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Re: Speed cameras axed over funding
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30 will cost you a £95 fine.
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Or the appropriate speed limit for wherever the average speed cameras are; I was going on your comment
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When I'm in the mood I drive at 30mph on a 30mph road
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but you probably knew that......
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01-04-2011, 05:20
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Re: Speed cameras axed over funding
Seems like turning them off worked well...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-12928747
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Speed cameras across Oxfordshire are to be switched back on eight months after they were turned off.
Thames Valley Police said since then the number of deaths and serious injuries on the roads had increased.
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