New system catches speeders without radar or lasers. Hah!
I don't see what people are whining about all the time. If you don't speed, you don't get a ticket. Simple.
Now, if you want to argue that the speed limits are wrong, we can talk. It's not OK to just ignore laws that you don't like, but lobbying to have them changed is fine. So how's this for a deal - you can have higher speed limits on motorways, if I can have a rigorously enforced 20 mph speed limit on residential roads. OK?
Posted to The Big Room by Simon Brunning at April 22, 2005 01:46 PMYou've got my vote. I've argued for years for *appropriate* speed limts and would gladly potter around at twenty mile per hour in residential areas.
What gets my goat is that the majority of drivers I meet on the road are afraid of higher speeds so tend to stick *close* to the national speed limit on motorways and dual carriageways but are incapable of driving at anything less than forty or fifty miles per hour anywhere else.
I have lost count of how many times I have been hassled and tailgated whilst obeying a thirty MPH speed limit - invariably by the locals whose kids I am trying not to run over.
There is very little chance of running a child over on a motorway. Ten MPH over a thirty MPH limit is, in my book, significantly worse than twenty MPH over a seventy MPH limit.
Driver training, social responsibility, less safe cars, and a VERY large metal spike on the steering wheel would all help.
But you've heard all this before.
Posted by: steve on April 22, 2005 02:25 PMSimon Hi - we must get together for that beer - sorry I bailed out on our recent meetup with Mr Bain...
Anyway - just wanted to say I couldn't agree with you more. If you don't speed, you don't get caught. Now, I always speed on motorways(don't we all) - but never dangerously, never. I once got caught by a camera, 3 points and 60 quid, doing 40 in a 30 limit - I thought it was a 40 limit - my own fault, no complaint - I get so p*ssed off when I get flashed from behind as I approach perhaps 90mph whilst overtaking some middle-lane 70-mph hogger. 1) the 70mph hogger, whilst technically being legal is causing more trouble than anyone going faster, but safely. and 2) Does the prat behind me expect me to slow down and pull in behind the hogger so that he can get past me and then irritate the bloke ahead of me in the fast lane?
It irritates me along the same lines as people who - i) smokers who think the world is an ashtray. ii) people with walkmans who think its okay for others to hear the crackle of whatever they are listining to, and iii) people who, on trains don't relise that i) their mobile has a "silent mode" and ii) who think that mobile technology still requires them to speak loudly. I think I will explode if I hear one more person say "Can you hear me? I'm on the train, can you hear me?, Hello, you'll have to speak up, I'm on the train, okay I'll see you in two minutes" grrrr!!!
Rant over - we must have that beer!
Posted by: Pete on April 22, 2005 03:06 PM