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[email protected] · August 3rd 10, 08:54 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:36:09 +0100
Charles Ellson wrote:
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 15:53:26 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:

On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 16:46:31 +0100
"Peter Masson" wrote:
make it a 6 point offence to clear drivers who have little thought for other
road users off the road more quickly.

I'm not sure why you think making progress is having little though for other
drivers.

A major use of average speed cameras is through roadworks. Workers carrying
out the roadworks are at serious danger from speeding motorists, that's why

No doubt. Except that for the majority of a 24 hour day there generally isn't
any bugger working on most roadworks. They should be renamed
roadcan't-be-arsed-I'm-off-home.

Complaints about "nobody is working there" seem to ignore the
impractibility of setting up and removing the protective measures
every working day or the further danger to the workers doing that.

You can't have it both ways. Either the speed restrictions are there to
protect the workers or they're not. If they are and there's no workers then
why are there still speed restrictions? If they're not to protect the workers
then what exactly are they for?

And don't even suggest that switching off the cameras at knocking off time
would be an arduous task to implement.

B2003