There is also a cash generator I see very frequently in Buckingham. Definitely is and should be a 30 limit, but given the huge width of the grassy areas between the road and the houses, you could be forgiven for thinking its not a 30, although is was streetlit.
It parks itself, obscured, on the top of a steep hill, where its impossible to stick to 30mph without using brakes - even an Omega auto locked in 2nd speeds up. I suspect its because they know that very few will use brakes downhill in such a wide, open area to maintain speed, and oddly, the council never trim that one bush that the mobile cash generator hides behind....
I would stop waving the self-abuser signs at the cash generators if I genuinely believed that the "partnership" genuinely had road safety as their primary objective, rather than revenue generation. But they don't.
Now don't get me wrong, I believe most limits, certainly in built up areas, should be observed. I do not believe the artificially low limits, like the current craze for dropping all roads to 50mph should be... ...in fact, I firmly believe it makes them more dangerous.
Despite what the do-gooders claim, speed doesn't kill. It never has and never will. I'm sure the vast majority of us have travelled at over 300mph with no ill effects. The danger is speed differential, and this is where the do-gooders have managed to opps it up badly. Since all the 50mph limits popped up around here, and the do-gooders have now made it socially unacceptable to get within 15mph of the limit, every tit drives at 35mph. Now the honest 50mph driver has a speed differential that is starting to become dangerous. Additionally, following at 35mph, this frustrates the honest driver who wants to proceed at the speed limit, and thus silly overtakes happen. The circumstantial evidence is there on every commute in. The do-gooder response? Lower the limit again, making it worse. Before all this wank started 5yrs or so ago, when everyone did 60mph on these roads, they only times you saw cars in ditches was in icy weather. And that's progress?
So a) non-urban speed limits should be raised to NSL, b) those that drive significantly below the limits should be removed from the roads and shot.
That's a road safety campaign I would back.