Communities to pay for own speed cameras?

If speed cameras worked, nobody would be getting fined. They are called safety cameras, and were supposed to be placed in accident blackspots. I don't know any round my way that are. None by schools, ambulance stations, hospitals, or any other vulnerable areas. They are simply tax collectors.

I have often taken my eyes off the road momentarily, as I pass one of these abominations, just in case. I have lost count of the people who have braked or swerved, adding to the danger on the road, not subtracting. 

These holier than thou nimbys think they  are the only people who don't speed. I don't think the two faced prats should have the right to pay for them. Even the police in Oxfordshire will agree that speed has rarely been a contribution to fatal accidents round their area.

 Bad driving and poor roads contribute far more; speed cameras will do nothing to help there.

Posted: 31/08/2010 at 18:52

I have been riding for years now and the funniest thing I ever heard was that a bloke I worked with that had 3!!!! speeding offences (9 points?) ... said the following, and I quote..."I don't speed. It's people like you who do! Bloody reckless bike riders".

Oh said I, "So if you don't speed and have 3 tickets, and I (merely by having a GSXR1000 by the way) definately broke speed limits, how come I don't have any endorsements and you do?!!"

His answer? But I was only doing 33, 36 and 34 mph! I said yes, thats fine, but you broke the speed limit. He insisted he didn't. So I asked him had he appealed if all the speed cameras were obviously non-calibrated. He said he hadn't.

I asked why, if he was SO sure he never broke the speed limit? Surely there was a mis-carriage of justice. He got redder and redder - it was hilarious.

 I pointed out that driving like a twat at 40 mph in 30mph zones and 40mph on UK National speed limits and holding everyone else up and being a bloody menace on the roads, does not a safe driver make. He then stomped off hahahaha.

cheers,

 Hoppy

Posted: 31/08/2010 at 21:34

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