furnessvale wrote:
John Rowland wrote:
In Grafton Rd NW5 there is a short stretch which is northbound-only for a
few hours in the morning and southbound-only for a few hours in the evening.
There is a pair of cameras to ensure the law is upheld. How much does a pair
of cameras like this cost to install, and how much to maintain?

Probably less than the cost of one fatal head on accident by idiots who
would take a chance in the absence of cameras.
George

That's what everyone who hates the cameras (speed or otherwise)
conveniently forgets, that there seems to be an endless supply of
f**kwits out there.

They spoil it for the rest of us.

It's the same with those that insist on driving those Daktari trucks
around town to school and the supermarket, the ones where you need a
stepladder to get into them.

They take the **** on every level but the rest of us end up paying for
it when we all get caned with higher congestion charges.

Where I live there's an unrestricted B road (60 mph) that's really
not suitable for much above forty. Yet, just you try driving at that
speed without ending up with a queue of ten or more behind you.

Ninety per cent drive too fast down there. There's plenty of tree lined
bends and there's no way you can see round them and could stop in time
much above twenty, let alone at fifty, but does that stop them, does it
f**k.

What does stop them, all too often, are the farmers in the tractors
they end up hitting.

Five serious accidents this year already, one young lad decapitated.
The poor girl who was driving the tractor hasn't been able to work
since, not physically injured, but still in a state of shock. A local
fireman told me the road is well known by the emergency services as
'Death Valley'.

Now there's talk of speed cameras and when (if) they do go in, no doubt
we will hear all the usual rants about it's just another tax or PC
loony left councils and well my car can brake much better than they did
in the sixties.

Why do they never put the blame where it really belongs - with the
f**kwits?

I've driven in Germany and the level of obedience to the traffic
rules is on a completely different level to what you experience in the
UK. I would almost go as far as saying it's absolute obedience.

Just maybe, that's why the Germans get to be trusted with no speed
limit motorways.

Imagine that over here everyone driving according to the Highway Code
it's inconceivable, do it here and you get labelled a Muppet.