RE: Govt Welcomes Increases in Speed
Thursday 28th March 2002
Govt Welcomes Increases in Speed
Don't get excited...
Discussion
I carefully selected my "spotter" car, and a good "jam" car by letting them overtake.. Observed carefully that neither was plod.
Then got between the two, and thrashed 100mph for mile after mile. Top stuff. Spotter had a detector by the look of it, and I had my Geo. Bird in the car behind would have got in the way of plod.
Top journey!
Don't it make you proud to be British? who needs 70mph limits anyway? this was of the highest safety, and at no time did we have to brake hard. Good observation is the key !!
Carl
Then got between the two, and thrashed 100mph for mile after mile. Top stuff. Spotter had a detector by the look of it, and I had my Geo. Bird in the car behind would have got in the way of plod.
Top journey!
Don't it make you proud to be British? who needs 70mph limits anyway? this was of the highest safety, and at no time did we have to brake hard. Good observation is the key !!
Carl
I bloody hate this sort of thing, it winds me up no end. Another report caringly prepared by the Ministry of Misinformation in order to perpetuate the myth that speed controls acutally work and will be justified in the next round of budgetry spending.
As Spike Milligan so aptly said:
"87.3% of statistics are made up on the spot"
Matt.
>> Edited by plotloss on Thursday 28th March 15:39
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thrashed 100mph for mile after mile. Top stuff. Spotter had a detector by the look of it, and I had my Geo. Bird in the car behind would have got in the way of plod.
Top journey!
Last year I had a 'journey from hell' down to a sprint at Llandow (just next to Cardiff) on cup final weekend. Didn't move an inch for over four hours. Return journey was just after the game finished and I thought I'd be in for more of the same. Not a bit of it. All the locals, truckers and numpties stayed off the motorway, the only people there were one ones who had a hundred plus miles to go home and a relatively modern car to do it. I sat in lane one at about ninety for roughly a hundred miles. The other two lanes were doing well over a hundred the whole way. Very little lane changing or congestion, nobody joined or left the motorway, we all just got on with the important business of A to B as fast as possible. For the first thirty miles or so there were police cruisers parked on the hard shoulder every mile or so but they seemed happy to let us get on with it. Almost made up for the nightmare journey getting there.
The stats prove the point - notice how the South West has the smallest difference between lowest highest speeds. Get the numpties off the roads and we'll all get along much better. Not so many cameras down there either, and some good roads for blatting along. I used to travel from Taunton to Wadebridge every weeekend - over a hundred miles, with 40 of it along A roads and smaller - apart from Bank Holiday weeknds (F***** NIghtmare!) hour and 20 mins tops........ yyyeaaaaaaahhhhhhh hhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!! 
Theres one bit near Davistow on the A395 (Launceston to Camelford), road drops down a steep hill, left curve, climbs out of the dip, right curve...... from the top of the approach you can see if the road ahead is clear and then pretty much straightline it - car goes ooooooh so light over the brow, drifts left and awayyy (but no I didn't engage the traction control) and this is all at highly illegal speeds - what a buzz tho!. I think I managed it at 90......
Theres one bit near Davistow on the A395 (Launceston to Camelford), road drops down a steep hill, left curve, climbs out of the dip, right curve...... from the top of the approach you can see if the road ahead is clear and then pretty much straightline it - car goes ooooooh so light over the brow, drifts left and awayyy (but no I didn't engage the traction control) and this is all at highly illegal speeds - what a buzz tho!. I think I managed it at 90......
quote:How very typical of UK government spin doctoring to claim the credit for a minor improvement in a shi1te statistic for one of thier qangos and give themselves a good pat on the back ! Balls to them, keep on driving at a safe and quick pace, they can't bust you all !!!
Transport Minister John Spellar chirped up with "The trunk road network is crucial to the economic health of the nation. I am pleased to see that overall peak speeds on the trunk road network have increased since 1998. There are many reasons why the speeds may have changed but one contribution is likely to have been the improved management of the network by the Highways Agency – managing our existing road network is a key priority of the Government."
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