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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Car cams will improve road safety |
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Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 15:01
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| Why stop at car cams? What about pedestrian cams, cyclecams, pramcams, lollipop lady cams, shop assistant cams, traincams, planecams and buscams? Great! All that lovely evidence. Now, all we will need is a massive increase in police numbers to sift all this evidence and visit offenders. These extra ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: West Mercia SCP to stop advertising mobile sites |
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Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 21:46
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Replies: 12
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| That blue sign is a hazard in itself. Look how much of the view it obscures. Damn stupid in my opinion. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Nurse jailed over speeding ticket |
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Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 08:58
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Replies: 37
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| I suspect that the six months wasn't for speeding - it was for perjury! Whatever, there is currently a shortage of psychiatric nurses in the Plymouth area, so the Crown Court's decision not only affects the nurse, it might have dire effects on the community. I wonder how many EMI patients and other... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Daily Express 11 May, SPY IN THE SKY ON MOTORISTS |
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Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 13:27
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Replies: 19
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| Surely the same congestion reducing effect could be achieved by making fuel tanks smaller (say 2 gallons or less even) and changing the price of fuel dynamically depending on the congestion in that area at that moment in time. I'm not advocating that system necessarily, I just thought of it; I'm jus... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: An entertaining half-hour |
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Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 06:58
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| I hope that she has buggered off as I have sent a TinyURL of this thread to Top Gear, explaining her use of their logo on her website header in the hopes that they 'do' her for Copyright, at least. That is a bit petty isn't it? Ling might not agree with you, but does she deserve to be the subject o... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: West Mercia SCP to stop advertising mobile sites |
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Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 19:24
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Replies: 12
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| The spokeswoman added: "I know that this information was useful to many people, and I'm sorry that we are having to stop this service. "However, I am sure people will all agree that our main priority must always be road safety, helping to reduce collisions and casualties on our roads by encouraging... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Why "Slip" road? |
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 17:25
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Replies: 32
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| The term 'slip road' actually predates motorways and referred originally to a local bypass. The term comes from a definition of slip - move easily, smoothly, unencumbered. There are many roads in the UK named Slip Rd as a result. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Google ads |
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:26
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Replies: 27
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| It's happening again - we're coming up short for April and will get no cheque in May. Please take a few minutes to vist the advertisers and try to get the total up. Thanks folks. Paul I don't know anything about Google Ads, but is it possible to get a wider range of ads? It seems to be the same old... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: SCPs on the offensive again! |
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 17:42
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Replies: 29
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| 'In a road crash, damage equals speed squared, and our research among Scottish motorists shows that the kinds of drivers who get caught speeding have around double the level of recent accident involvement. Speed cameras spot crash magnets. These people need help...' Guess where he says this? Transp... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Neil Kinnock declines to use Undue hardship defence for ban |
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 16:05
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Replies: 29
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Speaking of the offences, he added: "Both times the condition was a clear stretch of road with no one else in the camera frame and no imminent danger to anyone else.
Pretty careless though, to be caught 5 times in 3 years. |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Is the speedo of ANY use? |
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 16:45
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Replies: 18
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| My speedo has been intermittent for more than 2 years, mostly not working. I have had no problems in doing without. Sometimes when going through a camera site I get a little anxious, but otherwise I look at my dash so rarely it might as well not be there. I don't dawdle about at 25 just to be safe (... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Lets all discuss spelling and standard English |
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 13:45
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Replies: 44
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| The greatest benefit of careful spelling on the internet is that it allows others to find references when using a search engine. Many a useful link has gone unfound due to spelling errors in the content. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: What the Hunt Protesters are Doing Now |
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 21:02
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Replies: 19
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PeterE wrote: And a Hyundai Santa Fe is about the size of a Mondeo Estate...
Very true. It's just a shame they get driven as if they were the size of 12 tonne trucks  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Recycling, how do you do it without a (polluting) car? |
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 23:42
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Ru88ell wrote: Gizmo wrote: But as for me, it all goes in the same bag, someone else can go to the trouble of sorting through it. Rubbish is not collected for free, so its their job in my book. A classic example of the selfishness that makes our society so shit.
Well said. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed and safety - something new... |
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 13:16
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| Let's consider two vehicles, one (A) travelling at 30mph and the other (B) at 70mph. Give that both vehicles are fitted with excellent brakes offering a maximum braking force of 0.9g. Maximum braking will bring A to a stop in 1.5 secs over 10.2m, and B will stop in 3.5 secs over 55.5m. To allow for ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: my view |
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:36
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Replies: 166
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| oh forget it! i give up with this forum, i am not contributing anything by explaining myself any more, all i get back is "you are complacent" from certain persons who think have some biblical hold on the definition of safe driving. i stated simple facts about my driving 'stats' which have no releva... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Another drink-driver off the roads |
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 09:53
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| Can’t understand really, this is his fourth drink driving ban, he was already serving a 10 year ban and been caught 5 times driving while banned, gets caught again for another drink driving while in possession of cannabis, and only gets a 3 year ban. I know he’s going to jail but IMO he should have... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Dodgy Banners |
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:31
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Replies: 16
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| I think there are benefits, when reading the forums, for the pages to be relatively clutter free. Perhaps members could use the avatar space to make visual points if they wish? |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Grit, molasses and slippery roads in winter. |
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 08:42
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| In front of, and behind many traffic islands in this area, are large areas of salt/grit which have not been crushed or spread. Could the lack of rain on unused salt be a possible answer? Anyone understand the physics of "salt" and tarmac? I know that there used to be a problem called marbleling, wh... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Important-REDSPEED Cameras- |
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 21:52
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Replies: 40
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| That setup is on the M5 just south of Bristol. By jove you're right, that's well spotted sir! I just did some digging, there are/were installations both on the M5 and M6. The Redspeed page: http://www.redspeed-int.com/en/news_press_releases_m6.htm must have the wrong photo. It's rather worrying tha... |
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