Last week, Dennis Aris made an observation that drivers only slow down for 100 yards around the cameras, then speed up again.
Dennis Aris wrote:
TRAVELLING along the A590 in the Witherslack area has become a little more hazardous in recent months.
Everyone belts along the road as fast as they can go, then they slam on their brakes to make sure they go past the speed cameras at around 45mph before putting the pedal to the metal again for the rest of the journey.
The same sort of thing also happens at cameras in the 40mph speed limit on the A591 at Ings.
It suddenly occurred to me that both sets of cameras, and I am sure many others, are not really a speed limit enforcement device.
They are a new form of tourist tax as the only people likely to be caught regularly are visitors who do not know they are there.
Kevin has written in with the usual blurb... sites are well signed, information is given out on local radio and newspapers, AND the schedules are available on the website.
So if this was todays schedule....
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A6 A685 M6 A66 A66 A6 A595 A590
what was the camera van doing in Windermere at 9.30 am, heading towards Bowness and the A592?
And if A66 or A6 is supposed to be helpful - which A6 or A66 site would that be then?
In the penultimate paragraph he says:
a Joseph Goebbels clone wrote:
Fourth all roads have their speed limits signposted so any driver, regardless of where they live, is not being taxed but fined for breaking the law.
Why didnt he just say that then, instead of giving all that crap about signage and schedules being available?
And why dont they STOP people from breaking the law, instead of letting them continue on their merry way - hell bent on death and destruction?
I dont suppose it's because they need the money to pay their wages?