So we agree then 😀

So we agree then

Well we agree that running a police force costs money yes. Definitely. Unarguably.

🙂

I wasn’t really talking about your specific instance mastiles (it sounds like the council is responding sensibly to complaints too), but are you really arguing about being forced to do 10mph less than YOU think is sensible, for half a mile? FFS man get a grip. I’m willing to bet there is a slightly longer NSL run round too. If not, dropping 30 seconds is hardly the end of the world, no? (and it is JUST 30 seconds)

Impatience, pure and simple.

Unarguably

Is that the first time I have seen this word on STW?? 😆

but are you really arguing about being forced to do 10mph less than YOU think is sensible, for half a mile? FFS man get a grip

You don’t get what I am saying – I am not bothered about it personally and I stick (within reason) around the speed limit. What annoys me is the plod response in only (seemingly, to my knowledge) focusing on catching people when they know there will be more offenders. As said before I use the road daily around school time and have never seen plod there at those times, but I have seen them there at night and at weekends. Quite simply they know they will catch more people who DO ignore the limit and use it to their advantage. Personally I think their time could be better spent elsewhere.

Ah OK, I take your point and conceed. I obviously wasn’t paying sufficient attention 😉

Ohh shit – there appears to be an outbreak of agreement! The Interweb may implode!

😆

Even Lewis Hamilton rear ended someone ffs.

Was it Massa again? I bet he was pissed!!

😆

How dare my thread result in agreement and joviality 🙁

there appears to be an outbreak of agreement!

Quick, get the commissioner to turn on the TJ-signal 😆

Of course we’re jovial – we havn’t been done for speeding 🙂

my bro is getting along fine btw

I actually blame my dad for being in hospital the selfish old bugger.

Your Brother is your Dad?

Of course we’re jovial – we havn’t been done for speeding

8)

Was it Massa again? I bet he was pissed!!

I walked into that one 😆

I meant off track….

Saying this, I hope he doesn’t walk into a public urinal when Massa is in there

What annoys me is the plod response in only (seemingly, to my knowledge) focusing on catching people when they know there will be more offenders

I stick (within reason) around the speed limit.

The reason they’re there, is because some people can’t grasp the very simple concept of a speed limit.

Is it like where there’s a limit to the speed your car is supposed to be driven at?

The reason they’re there, is because some people can’t grasp the very simple concept of a speed limit.

But is it?

MF, fundamentally yes it is. if everyone obeyed the speed limit 100% of the time we’d have no need for speed cameras/traps anywhere. It’s a bit of a silly tangent to the argument really. I’m not sure how anyone can dispute this, but I’m sure someone will try…

MF, fundamentally yes it is. if everyone obeyed the speed limit 100% of the time we’d have no need for speed cameras/traps anywhere. It’s a bit of a silly tangent to the argument really. I’m not sure how anyone can dispute this, but I’m sure someone will try…

And would probably make no difference whatsoever to casualty figures…

In most cases it is yes I entirely agree. I can only comment on my own experience of the road near my house which seems to be targeted despite the council admitting that it doesn’t even really need to be a 20mph limit outside of school hours (it is a quite wide road and only has one corner – ie lots of long straight to see down).

Perhaps when they can afford the time-specific replacement signs the police will go back to doing something more productive with their time (like perhaps enforcing fair and acceptable speed limits elsewhere in the town)?

Or even just spend their time ticketing the bloody drivers who park on the pavement along that road – especially the ones dropping off little Tarquin in their big 4×4 right outside the school gate and on the pedestrian crossing which surely is more of a danger than someone doing 30mph along it at 2am…

That makes you think about speeding looking where you’re going.

FTFY.

I’m sure that if the car wasn’t speeding, the severity of the accident would’ve been less. However, I’m also fairly sure that if the driver and the unfortunate lad had both been paying attention to what they were doing then the accident wouldn’t have happened in the first place.

Sadly, we don’t yet have ‘looking where you’re going’ cameras, so speed limits help lessen the unpleasant effects of driver / pedestrian stupidity.

And would probably make no difference whatsoever to casualty figures…

As they say on the telly court-room dramas, “Conjecture!”

Speed cameras are there to help enforce a law, much like a breathalyser test shows if someone exceeds the drink-drive limit. If someone doesn’t like the law, they should put their energy into campaigning to have it changed, but I don’t see why they blame the tools that catch lawbreakers. This is not me being self-righteous; I’ve been caught fair and square in the past.

Am I right in thinking that the OP describes a hypothetical situation that did not actually happen?

Am I right in thinking that the OP describes a hypothetical situation that did not actually happen?

I got a faint whiff of trollage a couple of pages back

Why/how would I make that up? Jeez there’s some weird folk on this forum. 😕

Jeez there’s some weird folk on this forum.

You must be new here.

If you’d have been paying attention you’d have seen them and not been caught. Doofus.

I was too busy texting

The point is that the injuries to someone you hit at 40 are a lot worse than someone you hit at 30 – go and watch the videos on a speedawareness course (33mph in a 30).

Aren’t Toyota bringing out a car with a texting interface?

The new Yaris has web browsing capability. Marvellous!

(The only person I was likely to hit was wearing a hi-viz and holding a hairdryer) *sighs*

Also, when driving slower it’s much easier to avoid the unexpected.

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Have fun outside built up areas, but respect the 30/40 limit FFS.

If you want to have fun, book a **** track day.

Oh, a high horser bit.

What on earth am I going to do with a track day? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

That mentality will rid us of cycle road racing, cycling on the road for recreation, and confine MTBing to trail centres too.

It is possible to enjoy public highways while constraining yourself to the highway code.

Also, when driving slower it’s much easier to avoid the unexpected.

And when paying attention, there is nothing unexpected…….

And when paying attention, there is nothing unexpected…….

Well that’s bollocks.

Well that’s bollocks.

Didn’t see that coming. 🙁

If they’re unexpected you’re not expecting them even if you are paying attention… Not to say it doesnt mean you wont have time to do something about it though.

Well that’s bollocks.

No it’s not.

Oh , well stuff happens Sir Dezinauld.
Hows your Dad doing , have they figured out a better course of meds yet .
Didnt know about your bro , hope he gets sorted too .
Off skiing on Sat 14th but might stick my head in if i do a RR over t’weekend