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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: DfT 'unwittingly' bigged-up speed camera benefits |
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Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 11:09
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| If my memory serves me correctly I'm sure Paul had much contact with Dr. Linda Mountain in the early days of her research into speed camera 'effectiveness', which was the basis of the DfT report (before she went native - one suspects she got a quiet reminder as to who was funding her 'scientific res... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Town votes out fixed-point speed cameras |
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 07:04
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| This was a brilliant announcement, and a sign that Paul's legacy lives on. He said that once hypothecation was gone, one-by-one councils would step away from Scamera Partnerships when they realised what poor value for money they were if the have to be funded from a fixed budget. Let us not forget th... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Once a Bliar, always a Bliar |
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 09:16
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| For most people in the UK (who actually take an interest in these things), Tony Blair's tarnished reputation as a politician stems from the lies he told over the Iraq war and WMD's. Thanks to the Daily Telegraph and the FoI Act though we now have the proof that from the very beginning of his tenure ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: speed reduction -Dutch style |
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:16
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I know this is childish but....
The traffic policeman interviewed halfway into the film - that surely isn't his real name?!?!  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Reduce your road tax bill... without changing cars |
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 14:04
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Replies: 8
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| I had already planned to do this - surrender the tax discs for refund for both our cars at th end of January and re-tax them on the 1st of Feb. AFAIK the new rates kick-in in March '09 (can anyone confirm that?). I reckon that'll save us about £300! EDIT to add... I've just done some research on thi... |
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Forum: Paul Smith, RIP Topic: Condolences |
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:19
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Replies: 179
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| I'm stunned and truly saddened. I consider myself privileged to have met Paul. In person one could understand why he was so successful in bravely taking on the establishment. Always calm and rational against shrill opposition. Paul was a man of integrity and is a true loss not just to the cause of r... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Speed Camera Effectiveness and Peer Review |
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:36
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| Let's put it another way: if the data is so good then why not get it peer-reviewed? Is it not worth doing so in order to shut George Monbiot up? Are you blind or just stupid?! How many times does it need to be said? Peer review is not conducted on data - it is conducted on the methodology used to o... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Dismiss Meredydd Hughes - Chief Constable of South Yorkshire |
| r11co |
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 19:58
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Replies: 10
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| Count me out also. The message of the petition is wrong. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: OMG, Just got a reply from Richard Brunstrom |
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 13:50
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| Possession of a driving licence is a privilege, not a right. So, so wrong. Possession of a driving licence is an entitlement based on a person meeting a certain set of objective criteria, which include being of age, passing the driving test, paying the required fees, then not exceeding the threshol... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: BBC News, 5th December 2007: Hughes Disqualified |
| r11co |
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:00
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| Also, on Wikipedia..... Wikpedia is not a 100% reliable source of information on this subject. Most of the work on the SafeSpeed page was carried out and edited by Guy Chapman who hardly has an unbiased opinion . Mr. Chapman has since become rather influential on Wikipedia, so his editorial indepen... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: Daily Telegraph, front page, 4th December 2007 |
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 15:53
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| However, Jools Townsend, the head of education at Brake, a road safety charity, defended the cameras and fines. She said: "Research shows that speed cameras reduce casualties on the roads where they are placed." As we all here know, research has shown that in many areas where cameras have... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: Top Gear, 18th November 2007 |
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 09:31
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SafeSpeed wrote: weepej wrote: I reckon 80% of people need to slow down by a good 30%. Based on what, exactly?
Based on weepej's opinion. And, as David Coulthard once said, "Opionions are like arseholes - everyone has one (but some of them stink)". |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: Top Gear, 18th November 2007 |
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 22:33
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Replies: 124
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| The message from the "Speed kills" lobby is actually rather a dismal one. It is 1) we have given up on driver training Training costs money. 2) we have given up on highway engineering Engineering costs money. 3) we have given up on trying to make roads safer to reduce the liklyhood of acc... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: Top Gear, 18th November 2007 |
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 08:13
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| I've got to feel sorry for weepej. He (or she?) has fallen victim to the propaganda that tells us that road safety is black or white, switched on or switched off, and that the speed limit is the switch. Sad, simplistic, and the recourse of the hard of thinking. Also dangerous for us all. Either that... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Bioethanol |
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 19:02
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| What makes you think that it is not due to the FULL rate of fuel taxation ? As I stated (and you discovered) the rate is 20p less than petrol. The thing is, though, that biofuels create a dilemma for two reasons. The first is that they are effectively carbon neutral as the crops grown to create the... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Bioethanol |
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:37
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| A new Morrisons supermarket and petrol station has opened recently near me. The petrol station is selling Bioethanol at 2p/l less than unleaded. I dismissed the fuel, thinking that it was only suitable for a couple of SAABs and Fords that had been built to use it, but when my dad started asking me a... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: The latest in Brunstrom Buffoonery |
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 22:42
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Replies: 194
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R1Nut wrote: As long as you are following the party line then you'll get off scot free 
So, maybe it is about time to change the party?! |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: The latest in Brunstrom Buffoonery |
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 13:20
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Icandoit wrote: Given that Sir Ian Blair appears to have Teflon shoulders over the Stockwell shooting I can't see that this minor event will warrant anything at all.
No wonder there is a growing feeling in this country towards civil disobedience..... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: 'Australian drivers hit below belt' |
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 14:27
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Exposing corruption in Scameraship practices |
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 08:12
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Replies: 17
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| Ticket offices have no duty to provide evidence. Their responsibility is to issue a ticket so that drivers who know they are guilty can pay it and avoid the fuss and time of a court appearance. Fisherman, while obviously a learned man, has shown from the above statement which small part of the bigg... |
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