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Shame that virtually all planning authorities now restrict the number of garage spaces and off-road parking spaces allocated to new builds to something like 50% of those actually needed. :-(

Most of which have decriminalised parking enforcement so it is in their interests to create as many "parking offences" as possible.

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Blame Prescott - it was the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister that came up with the Restricted Parking Spaces rules that Planning Departments have to obey.


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... and by the same token, prevent them from making bad choices.


You can't. It isn't possible.

If you start to 'take control' (like ISA, where we came in) then the driver's risk management goes out of the window and we're embarking on a 100 year development programme of an entirely different road safety system.

The current system is amazing and well developed. We MUST NOT start on replacing it, instead we must improve it.

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... and by the same token, prevent them from making bad choices.


You can't. It isn't possible.

If you start to 'take control' (like ISA, where we came in) then the driver's risk management goes out of the window and we're embarking on a 100 year development programme of an entirely different road safety system.

The current system is amazing and well developed. We MUST NOT start on replacing it, instead we must improve it.


Best prevention cure -- EDUCATION ,NOT CONTROL.

CONTROL REMOVES THE IDEA OF CHOICE AND DECISION MAKING.

EDUCATION MAKES THE DECISION PROCESS SUCH THAT BAD CHOICES ARE REMOVED

(Sorry about shouting - felt that it was needed in this case )


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Yeah, think of the kiddie who dashes to get his football (because you know all kids have a rational mind when they're excited and playing football). It'll be alright that a driver knocks him over at 30mph because "He should have known the Green Cross Code!" and roads are for cars and drivers to do whatever they want on as they know best, regardless of the environment it creates for the residents.

People have to make a reasonable effort to stay out of danger. I don't straddle cycle lanes when I walk just for the hell of it. If I have to cross past one I make sure there are no bikes coming. Edit: Also, how would you restrict cyclists with your draconian measures?

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you are asking a question on a thread that is HOW OLD? :D

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Oh yeah sorry I was just browsing it initially and simply had to reply I forgot the date :oops:

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(I know it's an old thread but I hadn't seen it before, and the initial idea was so absurd that I couldn't pass up the opportunity to comment.)

I love it the way the zealots make out that car drivers are fundamentally irresponsible people who can't be trusted to set a safe speed for the conditions. It's just so utterly and obviously ridiculous. If it was true then you'd get people slamming into the back of queues at traffic lights all the time, coming off at bends, going straight over roundabouts (literally), and all manner of other things which happen extremely rarely in the general scheme of things. They happen rarely because drivers are very, very good at setting the correct speed, and statistically, they manage it very close to 100% of the time. Zealots, control freaks and the self-righteous may not be comfortable with that idea, but that doesn't make it any less true.

It is a cast iron fact that adapting your speed to the conditions is an essential, integral, fundamental part of driving which absolutely cannot be removed, and nor should people be trying. The only way of stopping people being responsible for setting an appropriate speed is to stop them driving altogether (which of course is what some of the zealots want, not that they're keen to admit it). If you're going to give people the responsibility of driving at all, you simply have no option but to let them decide on which speed is safe. Interfering with that can only make things worse, and those who enjoy interfering for its own sake should really interfere with something else instead, because interfering with drivers is costing lives.

If you accept that people are going to drive at all, you also have to treat them like responsible adults and leave the setting of a safe speed to them. You can't have one without the other. You can educate them, so that they choose the right speed even more of the time than they already do, but if you're going to give them a licence at all, you have to let them set a safe speed for residential roads like the one pictured above, because that's what driving is. We don't need to change the system of drivers setting safe speeds, because they're already extremely good at it; we just need to make them even better by educating them. End of story.

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Is it such a bad idea?[/quote]

In a word ,YES

(ps -look at the bit above where I quoted the boredom factor in truck accidents )

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I've not read the whole thread, so shoot me down in flames if you like...

One problem with limiting the maximum speed is emergency vehicles. What most people do when an emergency vehicle approaches from the rear is to freeze, which makes their job that much more difficult. What they should be doing is briskly moving on to a wider area in the road to allow the blue flashy lights to race to the scene unimpeaded. I can out drag a Transit ambulance or a fire truck and can soon find a pull in. Tricky when I am limited to a speed of a digger...


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Flynn wrote:
Also, how would you restrict cyclists with your draconian measures?


Cyclists tend not to cause the same carnage as a 1 ton vehicle hitting someone at 30mph.


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Also, how would you restrict cyclists with your draconian measures?


Cyclists tend not to cause the same carnage as a 1 ton vehicle hitting someone at 30mph.


I know :trolls:,
but you ain't considered the damage a bike ridden by an idiot can do to a pedestrian .Ten stone of biker hitting an old lady (or heaven forbid ,a child )and stopping from 20mph in a few inches - over 4000 ft lbs of force . (Unless my figures are wrong) - enough force to produce the same result ---severe injury /death ,especially as the force is concentrated in a small area ,and in the case of recoverably injury -almost certain permanant injury to the wspinal column - any medics (eg MM) care to back this up.

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A good friend of ours was hospitalised for some time and only saved permanent disfigurement thanks to some snazzy surgery by a cyclist running into her filtering between traffic - silently - as she crossed at a green man where others had stopped.


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Also, how would you restrict cyclists with your draconian measures?


Cyclists tend not to cause the same carnage as a 1 ton vehicle hitting someone at 30mph.


Ah, the old "accidents are acceptable as long as the chance of death is low" gem!

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