Sunday Times Says Enough Gatsos
Discussion
Following on from the Autocar survey, which I doubt any politician read, the Sunday Times (which I presume they do read) has fallen into line and started questioning the roll out of more 'safety' cameras. OK, the article led on Captain Gatso and his ilk but the subject even warranted a piece in their editorial leader saying enough is enough. Maybe the tide is turning.
Daily Mail (no sniggering at the back) had a big article in it yesterday on the same thing - Banner headline was "Cameras cost lives". And a fair amount about how the US is relaxing speed limits and getting safer roads as a result - based on fact not fantasy.
Maybe we are seeing a reaction to the overzealous reliance on automation to control. Lets hope so, or the forecast increase in mobile and fixed cameras (something like 2500 of the former and 4500 of the latter), will make our lives a driving nightmare.
Maybe we are seeing a reaction to the overzealous reliance on automation to control. Lets hope so, or the forecast increase in mobile and fixed cameras (something like 2500 of the former and 4500 of the latter), will make our lives a driving nightmare.
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I was driving this weekend and saw two Gatso posts, both of which were missing the cameras! they were within a few miles of each other and it looked like they had been removed without force - one still had wires sticking out of the arms. Strange....
Ahah! That will be the new invisible version that gets you when you thought it was safe to speed now
quote:Bring it on - no publicity is bad publicity.
Read the Sunday Times article too. What do people reckon about 'Captin Gatso' and the like damaging GATSO's?
The more these parasitic pole-mounted piss-takers are mutilated the less cost effective the whole proposition becomes. Once that happens to any significant degree, the authorities will have growing mis-givings and these will start to appear in newspapers. It's a simple matter of there being a critical mass of negative feeling toward electronic highwaymen for the issue to snowball, if the government aren't able to keep a grip on dissident groups. Funny that the language of the oppressed is applicable here.
I don't recall there ever being a successful reversal of a government policy being forced by us the people without some direct method of upsetting the status-quo.
Think fuel protests (blockade, manage media), poll tax (march, rabble rouse, don't pay, block court system), the reclaim the streets lot (block streets, manage media), greenpiece (blockades, manage media), Animal Rights* (threaten, terrorize, mutilate and kill adversaries who might or might not harm animals in the name of research)..
Activists in these and many other 'issue groups' are quite prepared to cross the thin blue line in the process of getting their message out, and they make things happen. The motorists' lobby has yet to even chip the lacquer of this monumental speed camera problem. So yes, the more direct action occurs, the better.
*Animal RIghts people are a particular bugbear of mine - I've got a great clip from the Mitchell & Webb Situation having a go at them.. I'm gonna try & get in to a size I can upload, thne I'll post the link - tres amusing.
Fair game, CZ but I could do with some help from Captain F*cking Commercial Alarm Fixer right now!
13 plus hours of sodding asylum financing and now I'm facing the prospect of at least another 4 hours till some sparky type can get his arse round here!
B*STARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right, what shall we rant about then?
13 plus hours of sodding asylum financing and now I'm facing the prospect of at least another 4 hours till some sparky type can get his arse round here!
B*STARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right, what shall we rant about then?
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Critical shortage of skilled tradesmen in the South-East?
Quite possibly but being of both 'oop Norvanargh' descent and location, such matters are beyond my experience.
But if your tradesmen are as shockingly half-arsed as the f-wits who leave me to while away what precious little free time I get on a seemingly bi-monthly basis then we suffer a similar wrath of foolery.
Added to which indignity, my Goddam PC just did something completely randomn which temporarily cut me off from PH - Aaaargh!!
Knowing almost nothing about such devices other than from a 'keying the b*stard' basis, that could've been lethal but fortunately the veritable switch of power was located at the rear of the infernal tower/server thing and wallop! Job done, sunshine!
Apples and pears, Chas n' Dave raand the ol' Kings 'ead, bomber '39, spirit of the blitz, laavurley jubbley me ol' china, jellied eel city.
Today really has been way too long and our petit vaccance en Brittainy canna come a day too soon.
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*Animal RIghts people are a particular bugbear of mine - I've got a great clip from the Mitchell & Webb Situation having a go at them.. I'm gonna try & get in to a size I can upload, thne I'll post the link - tres amusing.
This one will make you chuckle then........
A news report on SKY news once filmed some greenies out in the ocean on a ship. They planned to carry out a 'controlled sinking' of the ship to create a wounderful place for little fishy's to play in. They all thought it was great that a ugly polluting ship could now be doing something great for our environment. Unfortunatly the bloody think sunk halfway through the operation, now no ships at all can pass anywhere near this nautical hazard!!!
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