Comment Re:We Need this in the US (Score 1) 832
That's somewhat disingenuous. There are, and always have been, speed limits of eminent sense such as the 30mph limit in built up areas. However, the widespread introduction of limits below the 85th %ile has led to some ridiculous limits.
It isn't the case that all speed cameras are in non-dangerous places, since there's one not 100 yds from where I sit that enforces a 30 limit past terraced houses and a school, where the limit is, if anything, too high.
Broad brush attacks that sensationalise the situation serve, IMO, to damage the case against the blanket use of speed cameras.
No, the roads are for people like me to get from one place to another as efficiently as possible, not for people like you who can barely see over the steering wheel to go at 20mph on the motorway on the way to bingo.
I couldn't agree more. Furthermore, if limits were GPS enforced I would have had an accident today, having been forced into a maneouvre under hard acceleration to avoid another road user, which terminated at around NSL+20%.
It isn't the case that all speed cameras are in non-dangerous places, since there's one not 100 yds from where I sit that enforces a 30 limit past terraced houses and a school, where the limit is, if anything, too high.
Broad brush attacks that sensationalise the situation serve, IMO, to damage the case against the blanket use of speed cameras.
No, the roads are for people like me to get from one place to another as efficiently as possible, not for people like you who can barely see over the steering wheel to go at 20mph on the motorway on the way to bingo.
I couldn't agree more. Furthermore, if limits were GPS enforced I would have had an accident today, having been forced into a maneouvre under hard acceleration to avoid another road user, which terminated at around NSL+20%.
