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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: M6Toll charges to rise again |
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 18:47
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| Only toll route I know of in the UK that charges bikes too. Apparently the Humber Bridge charges bikes as well. Dartford Crossing also charges even though both the tunnel and the bridge have been paid for. :x I think you may have been more accurate in saying "One of the many toll routes I know... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: London Folly - a big one |
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 17:38
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| As a consequence motorists were being monitored for a 20mph limit whilst still in the 30mph zone for a short distance This is a concern. One of the M6 SPECS cameras (J16) where the new roadworks have just started is in the NSL zone, just after where the 40 limit ends on the Northbound carriageway. ... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: New Zealand roadsigns |
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 21:19
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| Today I was driving on the road between Borad Clyst and Cullompton in Devon. At one point on this road a series of three bends is signed with thre advance yellow-backed double bend signs supplemented with "max speed 40" and "reduce speed now" plates. The first of these series of bends is nothing muc... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Black spot signing |
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 21:03
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| I think there is a sign on the southbound M5 somewhere south of Brum but north of Cheltenham (white on blue) warning of several caravan accidents in previous years. I also remember a sign on the A66 between the A1 and Barnard Castle warning that it was a frequent spot for accients (I also remember t... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Registrations for drivers |
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 20:51
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| Still, we will soon all have ID cards won't we. Oh, I think that is one Blair policy that will rapidly run into the sand. http://www.no2id.net I bloody hope so. I'm a refusenik. I'll go to prison before I pay for an ID card. That's a promise. I'll bloody migrate before either. When it gets to the p... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: BRAKE and New Drivers - Well - Well |
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 16:44
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| The amount of people I know personally who have had £500+ accidents in their first year as a rough guesstimate must be as high as 60% perhaps. The majority of these accidents have not been through a lack of ability to get safely from A to B, but a bad attitude in doing so. Of the four cars I mentio... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Simulation as part of learning and the driving test |
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 15:13
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| I think this is a brilliant idea. Ideally the driving would be on real roads, with real traffic behaviour prgrammed in. I suspect parts of this can be gathered from existing CCTV footage of motorways and city centres. A limitation will be the extent of the road network you have. Perhaps you just mar... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: BRAKE and New Drivers - Well - Well |
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 13:28
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| I seem to remember that quite a lot of my driving instruction was at night due to fitting it around school and the time of year so I'd like to think that I was as competent at night driving as day driving by the time I passed my test. However, I'd have no particular objection to having a two part t... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Liverpool Uni report: Speed cameras DON'T cut KSI |
| awkward42 |
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 16:50
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Quote: 5.9% reduction in the 85th percentile (the speed at which 85% of motorists travelling at or below the speed limit).
Does this explanation for the 85th percentile actually make sense to anybody? It seems writing sentences in English is a little too much for some scamerati
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: New M6 road works |
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 16:43
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| I see the signs are up for the M6 road works near Stoke from the 1st June 40 mph speed limit will be posted there. Not 50 like the M42 roadworks. Looks like another fund raiser comming up.... :x I think 40mph is the new 'standard' speed limit for roadworks. As soon as people have gotten used to tha... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: New Zealand roadsigns |
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 17:08
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| There is a recommended Max speed sign on a motorway sliproad that is a significant corner near me, it used to say 55, then 50, then 40 its now at 35. In my car, that is nothing special handling wise (Skoda Felicia) I know I can take it at 60 with no problems, but lorries taking it at anything over 4... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Black spot signing |
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 16:52
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| when you see a 'X deaths in last 12months' sign or similar.... does it make you think 'i should be careful here' ... or 'they should have been more careful here'. When I see a sign like this it makes me think "There is something wrong with the road design here". Instead of spending the money on sig... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: "Illegal" letters |
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 13:16
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Speed campagin cuts biker deaths |
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Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 16:55
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| From the BBC: Speed campaign cuts biker deaths http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/4529529.stm What is notable is that this success occurred without the use of a single speed camera, but instead by informing riders of blackspots - in otherwords what has been proven to work time and time again for s... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Times: ACPO: It's not working and we're desperate |
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Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 18:28
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| Well, that's not what it says , but it is what it means ... On Epping New Road, in Essex, three people have been killed and one person seriously injured in four separate crashes on a one-kilometre stretch of the road in less than two years, meaning that it easily meets the casualty criterion. But c... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Return to NSL on A38 in Somerset? |
| awkward42 |
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:47
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This scheme and two others in Somerset look like they have been passed - see http://www.somerset.gov.uk/council/meet ... p?item=231
I am still not aware however what the detail of them is, as they don't appear to have been placed anyone online that google has yet spotted.
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Return to NSL on A38 in Somerset? |
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Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 00:02
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| After lots of speculation amongst colleagues and friends about rumours that the dangerously slow 30 and 40mph speed limits on the A38 in Somerset between Rooksbridge and Star (M5 overbridge and North Somerset border) might be revoked I searched for info on google. I came accross a page on the Somers... |
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