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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Strobed LED light designs |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 23:33
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| The rear lights on the VW Passat give me problems, they trigger a memory function which holds the light in my vision when I am looking away from the light. I imagined this was to do with seeking the focal point of a beam that doesn't have one. I now realise it is to do with the strobbing effect. I ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Remove traffic lights! |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 17:01
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Replies: 67
Views: 71977
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| I grabbed this comment from an earlier postee which sums up how ridiculous it is getting. RJ Rat runs have formed in my local area as a result of resignalling the local traffic light junction, making congestion and journey times significantly worse. People now use four alternative routes to avoid t... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Remove traffic lights! |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 16:49
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Replies: 67
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| Is it too much to ask someone from the Highways Agency to come on here and explain to us all what they think they are doing erecting ever more traffic lights? No one who drives has asked for them, everyone knows they cause tail backs and everyone knows they create driver frustration. Now unless it ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: SPEED BUMPS :@ |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 21:53
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Replies: 72
Views: 48212
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Sorry too much wine and over active mouse finger
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: SPEED BUMPS :@ |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 21:52
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Replies: 72
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How many speed bumps are there between Downing St. and the palace of Westminster?
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Remove traffic lights! |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 21:41
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Replies: 67
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| The film clip is an excellent effort to show how flawed traffic management in the UK is. The cancer of traffic lights across the whole of the country is creating chaos and congestion. It is leading to massive urban pollution and global warming. The reason the local authorities erect these inefficie... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: National Road Maintenance Condition Survey: 2005 |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 20:26
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Replies: 11
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| Recently i got peed off with the holes in the road rounf our way - one layer of tarmac missing at road end, trench sinking , holes in road etc etc . Sent e mail to CC -- lo andbehold repairs have been done - trouble is quality is lacking. I live on a no through road, the surface of which is broken ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Young driver risk doubles... |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 21:01
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Replies: 32
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| the AA Motoring Trust have cropped up a couple of times recently in the media. The were quoted in a recent Scamera PR in the local paper supporting the increase in camera use..... Andrew Howard, head of road safety at AA Motoring Trust, said he supported the plans. He said surveys carried out by th... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Chicanes. Good or bad? |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 09:05
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Replies: 88
Views: 41443
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| Just thought I'd post this link: The Highways (Road Humps) Regulations 1996 Make sure your local road humps are legal. ;) And I just found this: The Highways (Traffic Calming) Regulations 1999 Might be of some interest, haven't had a chance to read it fully yet. Thanks Ziltro, there is something pr... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Chicanes. Good or bad? |
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 20:54
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Replies: 88
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| Basingwerk says; The AA and the RAC … steer well clear of any contentious political issues .. Since when has the AA or RAC giving advice to the designers of dangerous road instalations been a political act? Advising the authorities that their members are extremely concerned about the dangerous haza... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Chicanes. Good or bad? |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 19:16
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Replies: 88
Views: 41443
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| Basingwerk says; The AA and the RAC have shareholders, so they steer well clear of any contentious political issues that might make bad press. The reason these things are there is because of bad motoring behaviour. When that behaviour can be curbed another way (technology?), perhaps there will be an... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: What happened here? |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 23:04
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Replies: 38
Views: 37259
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Ernest,
Why not just do the simple thing, straighten the road and remove the hazard for ever.
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Chicanes. Good or bad? |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 22:47
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Replies: 88
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| There is no logic to the introduction of these hazards. The only way to bring those who introduced them to heal is to sue them when accidents at these crazy locations occur. I think we have to start getting after the people responsible, not the councils, we have to make the idiots that pass these a... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Closure of Motorways after simple RTAs |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 19:42
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Replies: 37
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| Let's not forget the little girl a couple of weeks ago who saw her favourite cuddly toy fly out of a partially-open window (hopefully didn't hit a bike). Dad pulls over onto hard shoulder, calls police- who do a rolling roadblock AND SHUT THE MOTORWAY to retrieve the toy and return it to owner... W... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: A Privilege Not A Right? |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 21:44
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Replies: 20
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| [quote=" This is speaking as someone who hasn't ridden for at least 30 years. The last old nag dropped dead beneath me. Haven't been near one since.[/quote] I have never had one die beneath me, and am still riding the same old nag after 27years though probably not as often as I should. :lol: On the ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: A Privilege Not A Right? |
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 01:18
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| At twenty to eight this morning on the radio 4 a.m. programme the spokesman for ACPO Meredydd Hughes theChief Constable of South Yorkshire said: - "We need to explore ideas, that road use is a privilege not a right" This was following a piece about road design in urban areas and speed calming measu... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Vehicle activated signs |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 18:14
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Replies: 52
Views: 30938
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| Does anyone know how much these signs cost to install? In the cash strapped council world that is Blair's Britain in 2005 how is it possible for them to find money to erect these signs but can't repair the pot holed roads? How is it always possible to find money to erect chicanes or narrow down roa... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Cycle Craft - Gems for New/Retirning?reminding Cyclists |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 20:34
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Replies: 8
Views: 9163
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Thank you all for your valiant effort to explain the forgoing, I will just have to work at it.
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Cycle Craft - Gems for New/Retirning?reminding Cyclists |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 22:31
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Replies: 8
Views: 9163
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I have clearly stepped into a parallel universe, I don't understand any of this 
Sorry
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Closure of Motorways after simple RTAs |
| Rod Evans |
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 18:07
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Replies: 37
Views: 22239
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| However it's a different kettle of fish when it comes to to damage only accident, and they definately needed to be cleared away a.s.a.p and thats completely off the motorway, not just on the hard shoulder as the ghost jams that are caused by rubberneckers can be just as bad. If this was done more r... |
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