"Speed fines refund after blunder"

"Hundreds of motorists are to be repaid their £60 speeding fines after a
clerk realised temporary speed limit warning signs had been put in the
wrong place. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/4578705.stm




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Steve Parry emerged from their own little world to say

A blanket refund is an improvement on what happened in similar
circumstances on the M4 at Newport. In this case a Gatso was installed in a
50mph speed limit in roadworks. Except the range of the radar extended
beyond the restriction so loads of motorists were prosecuted when they were
legitimately accelerating back to 70ish. S Wales plod stated that they
would only refund people who made a complaint. Cunts.

Could be some interesting consequential loss claims if someone got a ban
through totting up and lost their job.

 

wessie fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

Yes now you mention it I recall that. Be nice if the motoring
organisations would get a bit more politically active and fight for
their members rather than tow the Governement line.

Especially as they've openly admitted the cockup

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Antoine fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

"Last month, figures showed the numbers of motorists caught speeding on
roads in north Wales had risen by 70% compared to the previous year. "

Does'nt really look like the scheme is slowing anyone down does it



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Roadworks are one situation where I have no problem with cameras.
Slowing traffic from 70+ mph when you've got guys working just metres
away makes perfect sense to me.

 

No it hasn't. You're getting this confused - there is some evidence to
show that they're less effective than speed bumps at reducing accident
rates, but less effective ^= don't work.

less effective ^= not safer

I'm no supporter of the things, but making stupid claims like this
doesn't help anyone's argument.

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I agree - as long as there actually are guys working just metres away.
It would be nice, if improbable, that a 40mph restriction in road
works could be increase to 50/55mph during the night when there is
no-one working though.

 

I'm curious: What programming language or such is that syntax from
(assuming it is meant to mean "not equals". It would be an XOR
application in stuff I use and can remember.

 

Works tend to be 24 hour though. And before people complain about
long stretchs of lower limit before getting to the works, it's to try
an slow people down well in advance of them getting there.

 

SAS so probably some version of C

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they still use the house for some stuff.

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In C/C++ that would mean an XOR assignment. For not equals one would use
!=. Just curious, I don't want to come across like a nerd or owt like
that.

 

It's an IBM thing, I guess. Back in t'old days, most IBM mainframe
languages (running on EBCDIC character sets) used a symbol a bit like
a reversed L, on its side
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for NOT. When multi-platform stuff was becoming popular in the '80s,
like using 3270 terminal emulations, a more generic character was
required and hence the ^ was adopted.

I think it's actually supported by ANSI-standard SQL, as well.
Certainly many SQL implementations allow it.

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Curses, me and my curiosity.

 

Antoine wrote

But they do. Or at least some do. The one near me has all but put an
end to the regular death and injury which used to occur around here and
by a happy bonus has also been an excellent earner to pay for all the
new Community Policemen who stop you in the street every 50 yards to ask
the way to somewhere they would know intimately if only they were locals
and not bloody Kosovans.

Although, the fact that there are still a huge number of non locals
prepared to spend extra for driving like a **** round here and there has
also been a drop in accidents which suggests that it was mostly the
locals who were doing the killing in the first place.

 

Ben wrote

It makes even more sense when you have actually done it. Years ago I
worked for GEC Traffic Signals. In general I was at the side of the
road rather on it when working but the tales the gangs who dug holes in
motorways would tell in the caff are really quite horrific and nearly
always began with the **** of a cager blaming them for having the
temerity for digging the hole in the first place.

 

Hold him down someone while I cut them off!!

'Hog