Gatso's

"...I may hard, but he's a bloody cycle-path!"

 

Works for me.

 

Certainly did and they were starting to spread like a rash in '94 when I
left.
My final bike mission in the UK was to take in as many Gatsos as
possible on a trip from Luton to Bristol and back and pass through them
at as high as speed as possible. I reckon I burned through at least six
licences that day.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

The local busybody types have always been with us but in the past they
bored the arses off everybody and stopped being listened to, unless
fresh meat came along.
Nowadays, the self-same busybodies have managed to get some of their
number in positions of influence and feed upon the rest of us, largely
due to spineless cunts in Parliament who can't be seen to be larfing at
Safety Issues and Finking ovra Chilun, cos that is sure-fire
hand-it-onna-plate to the other **** in the race.

Otoh, busybodies have their uses - it's usually them who set up
Neighbourhood Watch schemes and they do have some effect on the stealing
of knickers from washing lines, if only because the local organiser now
knows when to go out and get some.
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Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

Ditto

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

Up to a point, Lord Copper.

There are some cameras near(ish) me (on the A505 between Baldock and
Royston) on a dual-carriageway NSL and I can't (by-and-large) disagree
too strongly with their placement.

Thing is, the A505 is (mostly) a very fast, very good bit of road. But
it suffers from a couple of dodgy-ish junctions. They'd be a fucker to
re-engineer. Approached at 70, they're OK. At 90, they're frankly
dangerous.

So the council have stuck prominent cameras just before them. Slow down
for the dodgy junction, get past it, nail it.

Everyone's happy.

 

They've removed the pointless one by the pub as you approach Royston
too, and the one on th hill at the start of the Baldock bypass.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

The one by the pub is now in the central reservation. I guess the old
one (on the left) got torched too often. :^)

I guess that (if the pub is actually trading) you could argue that
that's a bit where slowing down a bit in anticipation of a drunk driving
out of the car-park is not a terrible thing.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

Yes.

Only snag is that occasionally I need[1] to pull out from one of said
dodgy junctions. I'd really much rather that oncoming traffic is doing
70 (when I can see and avoid) than 90 (when it's hit-and-hope).

I'll grant you that most Gatsos should print a Tesco-stylee receipt for
every photo and go "ker-CHING!" when they're triggered, but these ones
are well-placed (and - crucially - well-signed and visible).

Let's face it, in today's UK, the alternative would be to slap a 40
limit on twenty miles of perfectly good A-road. I can live with *these*
cameras.

[1] OK, I could take a ten-mile country road detour, but here in the
real world...

 

Why not, as WUN suggests, have the former at a few particularly
dangerous places and the latter everywhere else?

 

I suspect the proliferation of safety cameras, safety signage and general
bossiness commenced shortly after the introduction of conditional fee
arrangements (no win no fee) - about, IIRC, 1994.

 

"A disaster of Biblical proportions".

 

Fair cop gov.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

What I'm saying is that, in this one particular case, it does work
exactly that way.

Amazing, but true.

Normal service will now be resumed.

 

It's also not in keeping with the "safety minded and vociferous councils"
who announce that removing signs is a better idea than putting up new ones
and then go ahead and install them. Along with cheese wire stylee "safety"
barriers.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

We've a road leading into our villagey thing (the only road that leads in
and out) and recently we've had a new central "reservation" in red laid
down, a raft of islands in the centre of the road, a single band, a double
band and a treble band of red Shellgrip stripes across the road, "SLOW"
signs few yards and a new one on me, "Sharks teeth" on the side of the road,
obviously there to warn people that there are warning signs all over the
shop. The "normal" road signs have increased too, "Slow down", "School".
"Crossing Patrol", "Speed cam's" (signs, no cam's) and a momaned Pelican
crossing.

All because there's a fucking school on the road, but it's one of those
roads where speeding is very rare.

Given the huge number of kids who come and go from the school and the
fucking about on the road when they do, I've yet to hear of a single person
being hit by a vehicle in the last 20 years, but the council have seen fit
to completely **** the road up even after the road is out of the village and
into clear air.

I think they must've had a few quid left over in the roads budget.

--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Looks like you may have a rogue greengrocer putting up road signs in
your area.

 

Time to re-think.

They're officially bloody stupid.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19