Bye bye Bryan Edwards et al ...

[supermono]

...you won't be missed:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/edp24/news/story.as...

Unceremonious end to a bunch of parasites that (according to the figures I requested/saw) did nothing to improve road safety.

I'm still reminded of that footage of cars spinning out of control and crashing when they clocked the talivan in the distance. Road safety my rrrrse.

SM

[WIJ933]

Hmmmm.....

I'm not sure I agree. I know we all hate them but in certain places they are serving a purpose. What more important is that they keep the courses you are offered when you are caught speeding (upto 10% over the limit) as I think they are the best thing to be introduced on Norfolk roads.

I for one have been on a speed awareness course for speeding (NOT in the Lambo by the way!!) and think everyone should be required to attend one every 10 years.

Lookout........here come the onslaught of " KILL THIS MAN"

Come on - if you fink yer ard enuff

Edited by WIJ933 on Thursday 23 September 22:17

[rangie999]

Not sure but I think you might find that Mr Edwards has dissappeared under a bit of a cloud a little while ago?!

[threesixty]

WIJ933 said:

Hmmmm.....

I'm not sure I agree. I know we all hate them but in certain places they are serving a purpose. What more important is that they keep the courses you are offered when you are caught speeding (upto 10% over the limit) as I think they are the best thing to be introduced on Norfolk roads.

I agree, I've never had a problem with the fixed cameras or even the majority of mobile camera sites.

They do have a tendecy to set up on a quiet sunny morning on the various bridges over the a11 though,that I certainly will not miss.

[CTE]

Yes as I have said in my post, its the worry of a private company taking on such a task instead...just think of the abuses that will take place driven by profit (think of wheel clampers)...sometimes better the devil you know.

[supermono]

Yes I recall the Edwards saga now.

I went to a lot of trouble a few years ago getting FOI information and the statistics clearly show the NSCP failed to affect the underlying deaths and injuries. They just didn't.

Any feeling there may be about these people doing any good are purely those -- feelings. In reality they were parasites concerned with spinning their own effectiveness and continuing employment, whilst doing nothing to affect casualties -- other than the odd pile up caused by panic braking when the van came into view.

Sending a random selection of drivers on a course is fine -- a postcode lottery would have been equally fine.

Seeing them set up on that brand new A11 near Snetteron was the clincher for me, especially when Edwards singularly failed to make any sense whatsoever about it when I challenged him.

SM

[willards]

lovin it !! they should keep them outside schools though

[supermono]

willards said:

lovin it !! they should keep them outside schools though

RoSPA advise pedestrians not to cross the road in front of speed cameras because motorists won't be looking at the road they'll be looking at their speedo.

Seems to be at 9am and 3pm, mon-fri, schoolchildren need drivers safely looking at the road, and in those circumstances 30mph is probably a bit reckless.

Outside of those times and weekends (ie 95% of the time) the camera is just a cash machine.

They really aren't a good idea you know, not in any circumstances.

By the way weren't we told that the cameras pay for themselves in savings in accident cleanups and deaths on the road, making speeding fines incidental?

If that was true we'd still have cameras. But as many people knew all along, that turned out to be a stinking lie. Who's being held to account over this now? Surely minutes are kept and the councillors and others benefitting from the scam can be discovered and brought to justice...

I just wish I wasn't so busy with work, I'd love to bring individuals to account over this. It sounds very much like what in other lines of business we call fraud and is punishable by imprisonment.

SM

[Puddenchucker]

He's still voicing his (biased) opinion though..

Bryan Edwards - EDP

I wish I had the same crystal ball that he has, to be able to predict with absolute certainty what's going to happen:
Byan Edwards said: "If cameras are turned off a rise in fatalities is inevitable he claimed."