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Safety Cameras Petition
russbost - 27/11/06 at 01:33 PM

Think we all need to be signing this, I have:-

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/NoSpeedCameras/

James - 27/11/06 at 03:52 PM

I am as yet unconvinced that there is no benefit *at all* to having camera outside schools and the like to slow people down!

Banning *all* speed cameras therefore seems a little over the top!

Cheers,
James

DEAN C. - 27/11/06 at 05:24 PM

This is a bit like banning smoking,you have no chance whilst people are making huge wads of money from it.

Paul (Notts) - 27/11/06 at 06:25 PM

Why ban speed cameras?

they only affect people who speed!

21 years driving and no tickets...

I enjoy drving fast BUT not when it is inappropriate.

Paul.

britishtrident - 27/11/06 at 06:36 PM

Very much depends on the Police area you live in. Cameras in the right place are a good thing, but in some areas the sites chosen have little do with safety.

Paul (Notts) - 27/11/06 at 06:50 PM

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That statement shows how blinkered you are.., its not the actual speeding that causes the problems,


If the first car was not speeding there would be no problem.!!!

MkIndy7 - 27/11/06 at 06:57 PM

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Originally posted by Paul (Notts)
quote:

That statement shows how blinkered you are.., its not the actual speeding that causes the problems,


If the first car was not speeding there would be no problem.!!!


They don't have to be speeding,

How many people have you seen suddenly brake down to 30mpg when there in a 40 Zone and see a Camera!.

Most fixed cameras aren't a problem, its the usage and timing of mobile units that are worse in Situations like:

Un-manned Roadworks at 8am on a sunny Sunday morning with perfect visability for example, what harm is someone doing if they happen to stray above the ludicrousley imposed 40 or 50 mph limit.

Paul (Notts) - 27/11/06 at 07:37 PM

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Un-manned Roadworks at 8am on a sunny Sunday morning with perfect visability for example, what harm is someone doing if they happen to stray above the ludicrousley imposed 40 or 50 mph limit



So what your saying is that when YOU judge it safe to, you should be allowed to speed through a section of road works just because its a sunday and its unlikly that any one will be working.

As I said in a reacent thread we are slowly becoming a nation of people who only thing about our own rights and not about society itself. We may not agree with speed limits and may feel that the road is safe at a much faster speed BUT if we take the stance that becasue of this we can break the law and then moan about our own rights to freedom from the nanny state then eventually the nanny state has to take a firmer grip or society slowly brakes down.

anyway got to go now and put my kiddy to bed.

have a safe night

Paul

MkIndy7 - 27/11/06 at 08:15 PM

Who has decided that its resoloutely unsafe to drive at that speed in excellent conditions... when you've just bin driveng on the same piece of tarmac bar a few cones in the hard shoulder or even 1 lane (its still "safe" to do 70mph on a duel carriage way) a mile or so before.
If the workers aren't there then the danger and thus the restriction should also be removed.

Surely any good old fashioned copper would realise you aren't doing anybody any harm at all.... And have a polite word
with the 80 yro "gentleman" that had just joined the motorway at 10mph with all his windows misted up instead!

We've all got to try and get about our business without Beaurocracy holding us back and getting in the way.

DIY Si - 27/11/06 at 08:22 PM

Equally as much, many of the roads round here have recently changed from 60 to 50. They've been 60 limits for years, and the roads are fine. Some, in fact most, have side roads turning off them that still have a 60 limit! Absolute madness! As said, as free thinking adults, we should be given some leeway to decide for ourselves when an imposed limit is silly. A prime example is the M25. Many of the cameras are active only when the limit is dropped below 70. My old man (who's been a trucker all his life) regularly sees the limit set at 30 mph in the middle of the night when he's the only vehicle there! He will quite happily do 56, as many here would do 70 (if not more) in such a condition where it would be perfectly safe, yet still exceeding the limit at that time.