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      02-14-2018, 02:31 AM   #92
DavidI
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There's a continual battle in the UK over the use of speed cameras. Unfortunately local government and police forces earn a fortune from them which seems to be the deciding factor. They're allowed to place a camera where they can demonstrate there is an accident blackspot, but there is no obligation on the authorities to demonstrate having the cameras reduces the risk of accident, so if two kids crash racing each other, that's a blackspot and a cash-cow camera can be installed.

In the last few years, local to me at least, there have been fewer new installations and quite a few cameras have been removed because the authorities can't afford to process the footage - go figure.

What I can guarantee is that at no point has there ever been ANY emphasis on driver education. Once you've passed your test, you clearly know it all. Hence driving in the middle lane of 3-lane carriageways because it's comfortable or safe, foglights on if visibility is even slightly impaired and all sorts of wonderful driving habits that never get corrected.

9mph seems reasonable. There was talk here recently that safety groups want to start prosecuting for being 1mph over the limit - but no discussion that 1mph over the 30 limit in a highly populated residential area might be more dangerous than 1mph over a 70mph motorway limit set in the 60's when drum brakes and radial tyres were the norm. Our roads are seriously messed up.
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