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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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They spend loads of money trying to battle speeding. Also new cars will have annoying alarms when you go over the limit.
Why doesn't every road in the UK just have average speed check cameras? Slows me down!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You need to move to Northern Ireland !!! We’ve only got 4 speed cameras and 1 set of average speed cameras and that’s it. And it’s rumoured some of those aren’t operational. It’s gr8 |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"You need to move to Northern Ireland !!! We’ve only got 4 speed cameras and 1 set of average speed cameras and that’s it. And it’s rumoured some of those aren’t operational. It’s gr8"
That's it. Not all of them need to be operational. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm with Jeremy Clarkson, take away all the speed limits but also take away seat belts and replace air bag in the steering wheel with spikes.
It really will make you think about your speed  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I'm with Jeremy Clarkson, take away all the speed limits but also take away seat belts and replace air bag in the steering wheel with spikes.
It really will make you think about your speed "
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By (user no longer on site)
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I remember going up the M6 in the 1960s in my dads ford cortina. The speed limit then was 70, same as today. But the top speed of the vast majority of cars in them days was below 100. Nowadays some lawnmowers do that. I’ve done 170 on the autobahn and regularly 165 on our motorways ( officially allowed) and 70 is way too low these days. Make it 80 at least |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Is agree with average speed cameras on every main road what ever the road limit is , only thing is the price , the councils can’t can’t even get the roads repaired in good time |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Is agree with average speed cameras on every main road what ever the road limit is , only thing is the price , the councils can’t can’t even get the roads repaired in good time "
But it will save them money. Less accidents save money on hospital costs. Less traffic equals more productive businesses as they wont be stuck in jams for hours. Which means businesses do better. Less money spent on policing the roads. People will save money on fuel. The only people who lose in this is the petrol stations. Also you can't put a price on a life. Even if it saves just one life! It'll be worth it... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Is agree with average speed cameras on every main road what ever the road limit is , only thing is the price , the councils can’t can’t even get the roads repaired in good time
But it will save them money. Less accidents save money on hospital costs. Less traffic equals more productive businesses as they wont be stuck in jams for hours. Which means businesses do better. Less money spent on policing the roads. People will save money on fuel. The only people who lose in this is the petrol stations. Also you can't put a price on a life. Even if it saves just one life! It'll be worth it... "
I agree there too. Shame there councils down , there are quite a few roads in Lancashire now with average speed cameras ranging from some 30mph roads to 50mph too , got to never a start |
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"I'm with Jeremy Clarkson, take away all the speed limits but also take away seat belts and replace air bag in the steering wheel with spikes.
It really will make you think about your speed "
Great idea! |
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By *htcMan
over a year ago
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if anything the motorway speed limits should be increased, i feel safer and more responsive to the road at 80 than 70. speed cameras should be there only on during busy times, but should be not points based, only cash fines should be issued, payable in full online and a online system to check if you have been caught. |
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Motorways should have speed limit raised to 110 - it’s proven it actually reduces accidents, improves lane discipline and reduces congestion.
Average speed cameras have shown drivers to lose concentration.
Variable speed limit so called “smart” motorways actually increases the number of collisions, increase pollution, and cause congestion.
Fundamentally speed doesn’t kill anyone - it’s the stopping that does.
Last year on the motorway and major dual carriageways - fatalities were either due directly or indirectly to lorries.
In Europe their smart motorways basically at peak times ban lorries from overtaking, which reduces the variance in speeds and people having to break and lane change so much and so reduces congestion.
Last year mobile speed traps were also a cause of a number of accidents - due to causing domino braking. And in a world of austerity and claims of not enough police, I’m not sure that spending over 180k per mobile unit that could be putting a policeman on the street instead of sitting in a downhill stretch of a road that doesn’t have any accidents.
The reason speed cameras vanished is because they changed who got the money - and fundamentally the eveidence doesn’t support that it improves safety or reduces deaths so no business case to fund them - before the business case was purely it was a source of revenue.
What would be far better use - is improving the driving license requirements, mandating motorway driving, having similar laws as motorbikes that age limit the size of engine/BHp and increasing fines and points for middle lane drivers - who are fundamentally the biggest hazard and turning smart motorways into something properly smart and banning lorries to inside lane during peak times |
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