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Forum: Cycling Topic: "Why do so many cyclists think they’re above the law?" |
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 17:34
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Quote: it's about people, not cyclists/drivers/pedestrians.
Well I think I can agree on that one !
BTW I think you are very brave to cycle round Marble Arch, I wouldn't want to do it in my car, having seen what goes on from the top deck of a bus. Hyde Park Corner is similar. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 20 mph speed limits |
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 23:06
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Replies: 102
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| OK, some figures and info from my history of Manchester trams.......... No figures for horse drawn vehicles because no registration was required. Note that the Manchester city area was much smaller at this period. Manchester 1911-1913 1911 31 fatal 1168 non-fatal 630 motor cars, 45 Goods vehicles (7... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 20 mph speed limits |
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 22:32
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| I think it interesting the correlation between the trams and accidents ... be nice to have links to see the precise figures (if you can?). I am now looking out the book I have to find the figures, but they were quite surprising to me, at least. Of course, if modern medicine and trauma techniques ha... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 20 mph speed limits |
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 22:36
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| All this is very interesting. I have got a very detailed book on the history of Manchester trams, and also a video showing, inter alia, Manchester city centre, (Piccadilly and Market St), before the First World War. The video shows almost unbelievable congestion and traffic, and this was in fact the... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Councils increase parking warden numbers |
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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 09:20
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| Just look at my local town, Crewe. ON a Saturday afternoon, the car park in town was half empty, yet the car park at the retail park 1/4 mile away was full. It is not so much the parking charges, but the draconian enforcement that puts people off going to town. The slightest transgression and you ge... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: New powers for councils or more ways to cash in |
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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 09:16
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| I have already e-mailed my MP on this, (fat lot of good that'll do, I can hear you all saying !!). I suggested that if councils are to be allowed to do this enforcement, then the law must be changed for yellow-box junctions and buslanes so that the offence becomes one of actually obstructing another... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Rural road accident |
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 22:46
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| I recently posted a contribution regarding speeds and accidents on rural roads, and my perception that rural roads near conurbations present the most risk of random accidents. Anyway, yesterday, (Friday), my wife and I had a little pootle in our VW New Beetle around our rural lanes in Staffordshire.... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Accident decrease with increase in fuel prices |
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 22:56
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| country roads are EMPTY Hmm, not around here they're not, and I travel on them quite a lot, (Cheshire). Clearly one can drive out to rural Shropshire and also some places in Cheshire where there is very little traffic, sometimes almost nothing for an hour or more, but no distinction seems to be mad... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Quiet rural roads face 40mph limits |
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 21:37
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| So, had another little Sunday tootle, this time out to Cheddleton to visit an Open Gardens day. Went out via A500, then into Hanley and out along the Ashbourne Road to Cellarhead, then north via Wetley Rocks to Cheddleton. I really have never seen such a grotesque number of speed cameras, they are a... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: So much for the promise to cut speed cameras... now there ar |
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 13:42
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Replies: 37
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| Sorry, Greenshed, maybe you don't drive, (it certainly seems so from your post), but I don't have to break the law in SoT to feel that there are people there whose sole aim in life is to catch law-abiding people out for small mistakes. My description of this is: Feasting on Fallibility. My, they are... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Damon Hill attacks 80mph plans |
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 17:23
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| Well I have driven long distances on European motorways at their speed limit of 130 kph, and found this speed no more dangerous in my perception than ours, except in Italy, where as we all know, their drivers are complete headbangers. German autobahns were best for driver behaviour with very few rea... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: So much for the promise to cut speed cameras... now there ar |
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 17:17
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| Just have a drive around Stoke-on-Trent. There are hundreds upon hundreds of cameras. It is absolutely grotesque, they are literally every 100 yards. Most people are driving within the limit, (obviously !!), but what a way to treat people. I don't care what others may say, this is just oppression; y... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed |
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 14:10
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Replies: 249
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Quote: I don't feel penalised whilst driving my car, why do you? We drive on the same roads right?
Just have a look at what councils get up to with CPE. Illegality by councils is commonplace in CPE, yet I see nobody brought up short yet. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed |
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 21:22
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Replies: 249
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| I own a car (a rather smart Audi), I have a full clean license which I've had for 25 years, I drive regularly, in town and out of town. Odd, isn't it, I am the same except car make is a British Jaguar, and I have had a clean licence for nearly 40 years, (done for speeding on my motorbike in 1971), ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Accident decrease with increase in fuel prices |
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 22:27
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| So we can eliminate all accidents by making fuel £100 (say) a gallon. Only joking !! |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed |
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:27
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Replies: 249
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| I understand that on a busy motorway a 50mph limit enforced by average speed cameras allows for the greatest throughput of people and goods. Here is the false argument always deployed by those who want us to return to the horse age. There is a difference between the throughput of the road, and the ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed |
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 22:33
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Replies: 249
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| I have not posted on this forum for a long time so forgive any improprieties I may make. However, I do try to keep to a "Safe Speed" ethos. First off, why this mania, (for it can only be that), for 20 mph limits literally everywhere ? The accident statistics don't point to an urgent need f... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 80mph speed limit 'risks rise in road deaths and obesity’ |
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 20:43
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Replies: 23
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Just type in "Dyonisius Lardner" into your search engine.
I am beginning to believe in reincarnation ! |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Brake claim "Drivers blame everyone else for bad driving" |
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 14:37
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| 1. Sober Up I pledge to drive sober. Not impaired by any alcohol, illegal drugs, or medication that can affect driving. 2. Wake Up I pledge to drive alert. To have enough sleep, take regular breaks, and stop if feeling tired. 3. Buck Up I pledge to drive with good eyesight, and not stressed or physi... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Thousands take courses to avoid speed camera fines |
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 22:36
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Replies: 7
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| This at least, is surely true, even in the latest edition: - "In chapter one we saw that drivers who drive fast regardless of the circumstances have an accident risk three to five times greater than drivers who do not." Nowadays I see so many drivers driving fast roundblind left-handbends ... |
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