RE: Stockport Speed Nonsense
Thursday 7th November 2002
Stockport Speed Nonsense
No, no, no, no and NO!
Discussion
Absolutely unbelievable.
Drive past the school at 8.55 am with kids everywhere. But don't worry, you're a good driver 'cos you've the speedo balanced at 30 mph.
A ball runs in front of your car. The little kiddie runs out to get the ball and gets smashed like a melon on the front of your car. But don't worry! It's ok, you were concentrating on balancing the speedo on 30 mph.
etc etc.
Absoloute bollocks.
Drive past the school at 8.55 am with kids everywhere. But don't worry, you're a good driver 'cos you've the speedo balanced at 30 mph.
A ball runs in front of your car. The little kiddie runs out to get the ball and gets smashed like a melon on the front of your car. But don't worry! It's ok, you were concentrating on balancing the speedo on 30 mph.
etc etc.
Absoloute bollocks.
Damn it!!!
I can't believe people believe this tosh.
Its a cool party trick to be able to say...
" Right Thrust, watch this. I won't look at the speedo, and I'll accelerate up to and hold X miles an hour"...
...and do it.
Eventually some unimaginative numptie 48mph'er will be so busy "balencing the needle on 30 that they'll run down a small child and pass the buck onto the radio station.
If it was me in charge of booking ad' space I wouldn't have even tendered this one, it was always gonna get pulled...d'ah!
Mouse
I can't believe people believe this tosh.
Its a cool party trick to be able to say...
" Right Thrust, watch this. I won't look at the speedo, and I'll accelerate up to and hold X miles an hour"...
...and do it.
Eventually some unimaginative numptie 48mph'er will be so busy "balencing the needle on 30 that they'll run down a small child and pass the buck onto the radio station.
If it was me in charge of booking ad' space I wouldn't have even tendered this one, it was always gonna get pulled...d'ah!
Mouse
The trouble is different areas interpret speeding differently, this of course leads to different ideas some good some bad, this one obviously was not so good. The word inappropriate scares me? Does it now mean they want to start stopping drivers and start fining them for impropriate speeds? If they do then how are they going to rugulate that? Could they just stop you by using an existing law e.g. driving without due care and attention?
My personal view is once Transport2000 win their case to repaint all cameras grey there will be a new war on motorist being fined or banded for inappropriate speeds. Which ever way you look at it they intend to force us off the road and once they get all these SPECS cameras up it will be game over, they have been laying loads of purple conduit along the M4 near me wonder if that’s the start.
P.S. funny how they allow these high powered cars to sold and are happy to take the VAT and tax but don't want us to driv them?
My personal view is once Transport2000 win their case to repaint all cameras grey there will be a new war on motorist being fined or banded for inappropriate speeds. Which ever way you look at it they intend to force us off the road and once they get all these SPECS cameras up it will be game over, they have been laying loads of purple conduit along the M4 near me wonder if that’s the start.
P.S. funny how they allow these high powered cars to sold and are happy to take the VAT and tax but don't want us to driv them?
My personal view is once Transport2000 win their case to repaint all cameras grey there will be a new war on motorist being fined or banded for inappropriate speeds. Which ever way
Fake plates. Flip plates. LCD plates. Visual filters.
UK branch of Der TufTuf club. We'll cope. Given enough electronics & some common sense we will prevail. Shares in Snooper, anyone?
C
I live in Stockport (usually), and I've got to say that if I spent all my time trying to balance my speedo at 30, I'd end up compressing the inevitable traffic jams ahead of me. Can't ANYONE out there actually design a PROPER road safety programme that DOESN'T focus entirely on worrying about what is, let's face it, the most unreliable piece of kit on the dashboard. Maybe Petrolted or someone should outline a proposal.
P.S. Stockport should worry about the fact that Max Power keep using Morrison's car park for their pathetic 'cruises'. If they crashed one of those, and welded all the boltonboys into their cars, then pushed them into the Mersey, then maybe they'd make a greater contribution to road safety.
P.S. Stockport should worry about the fact that Max Power keep using Morrison's car park for their pathetic 'cruises'. If they crashed one of those, and welded all the boltonboys into their cars, then pushed them into the Mersey, then maybe they'd make a greater contribution to road safety.
I work in Stockport. I was the sad b@stard who got his M3 squashed into the mersey bridge concrete blocks (the old manky ones for the locals here) by a big truck about 18 months back.
30 on the A6 is a sad joke, I spend ages sitting in traffic looking at all the new speed cameras, dreaming of going fast enough to set one off sometime. One of these days.....
30 on the A6 is a sad joke, I spend ages sitting in traffic looking at all the new speed cameras, dreaming of going fast enough to set one off sometime. One of these days.....
The next thing that will happen is more people will go about vandalising speed cameras.
However, Mr President wont have any of that. He will probably turn vandelising a speed camera into a "terrorist act" and the use of radar detectors "inciting a terrorist act"
Well im off to my mates house. Might do a bit of 30MPH balancing where the kids are playing myself as I will then be SAFE!!!
What a bunch of f
kwits. Who thinks up this pointless shite? oh yeah. the government.
However, Mr President wont have any of that. He will probably turn vandelising a speed camera into a "terrorist act" and the use of radar detectors "inciting a terrorist act"
Well im off to my mates house. Might do a bit of 30MPH balancing where the kids are playing myself as I will then be SAFE!!!
What a bunch of f
kwits. Who thinks up this pointless shite? oh yeah. the government.Stockport, I live there. It has the worst planned road system in the world. The entire council could not be positive if their lives depended on it. The A6 bypass has been under discussion now since 1938 so a decision can be considered imminent. The lib dems have systematically ousted most other politicians and the whole place is rapidly approaching a situation for traffic which makes the M25 look like an interstate in Montana. On Wednesday morning it took me 90 mins to travel just 800 yards. The intermitant bus lane is a disaster. Last Friday night there was a death on the A6 in between the 2 latest edition speed cameras which are no more than 400 metres apart. (state sanctioned murder). The full time officer responsible for all this carnage is a stupid bitch who came out of environmental health. Recent road developments have been designed to be adequate for 1903 traffic levels. The motorway M60 has a junction where you join in the outside lane. As its now aproaching xmas we are due for the annual road works (block all exits from Stockport to boost retail sales in the town). The last street surgery I attended, one of the thick lib dems parked in such a stupid place she caused an accident. If ever a place needed a serious shake up it is this one.
Fantastic. Now I have somewhere to base my "Hell on earth" novel.
Seriously though, there should be a system in place for public "votes of no-confidence", whereby individuals within council positions can be replaced, maybe then the majority would get a say in the way their part of the country is run!!!
*I may have accidentally stumbled on the perfect democracy there
Seriously though, there should be a system in place for public "votes of no-confidence", whereby individuals within council positions can be replaced, maybe then the majority would get a say in the way their part of the country is run!!!
*I may have accidentally stumbled on the perfect democracy there
(Joke) nonegreen-ever found that having to pull out of the way of that f**king bus lane between Debenhams and Kwik Save is nigh-on suicidal? I have nearly lost my doors when a double-decker leviathan slams to a halt in front of me to let one person on and I have to pull out blind. I'm sorry, but buses, bus lanes and taxi lanes are adding to the problems of congestion because it means that 95% of road users have half a lane, whereas smelly ungainly, badly-driven uncomfortable, unused relics of British Leyland churn out carbon monoxide as they sail past our relatively 'green' cars. Did you know that a bus would have to drive around ALL DAY with 20 people on it to make it AS ECONOMICAL as a car - so you can see that it's just a government attempt to control where we go (ie miles out, late, sweaty). P.S. Have you noticed the cock-up they made of the new roundabout near Davenport. And they've made all my backstreet short cuts one-way.
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