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[Kevin Wood]

You're not allowed to undertake

Have I been looking at the wrong soilid white line again?  

Oh, well. That'll keep my wheel arches a little less muddy!

.. and SWMBO a little less scared.  

Kevin

[razzo]

 these proposals all because No 10 says that too many people are being killed or seriously on our roads each year, surely education for pedestrians & drivers is the way foward. I have covered many fatal RTC's & in the Met area all accidents involving pedetrians & cars 80% of the time peds were to blame. Seems a knee jerk reaction by government.

Think this proposal needs more thought

[Martin_1962]

That will criminalise drivers who want to "press on" a little when conditions make it safe to do so. It's starting to happen now. Rural roads around me that used to be national speed limit are dropping to 50 or 40 simply because there are a few bends (which can be taken safely at the national speed limit), double white lines are appearing where overtaking used to be perfectly safe if undertaken carefully and so on.

Kevin

THis pees my off something rotten, the A422 WOrcester Stratford road especially.

I alway speed in one 30 limit which is on the edge of a village - no houses no reason for 30 - the sign used to be at the top, so everyone slows down where it used to be.

Safety is NOT an issue, but why brake going down hill to the 60 and why not use the hill to slow to 30.

Oh and the Police do it too - I'll get a picture some time next week!

A38 takes the prize for silly limits!

[STMO123]

these proposals all because No 10 says that too many people are being killed or seriously on our roads each year, surely education for pedestrians & drivers is the way foward. I have covered many fatal RTC's & in the Met area all accidents involving pedetrians & cars 80% of the time peds were to blame. Seems a knee jerk reaction by government.

Think this proposal needs more thought

Didn't they used to be RTA's?

[hotel21]

these proposals all because No 10 says that too many people are being killed or seriously on our roads each year, surely education for pedestrians & drivers is the way foward. I have covered many fatal RTC's & in the Met area all accidents involving pedetrians & cars 80% of the time peds were to blame. Seems a knee jerk reaction by government.

Think this proposal needs more thought

Didn't they used to be RTA's?

Yes, but Political Correctness gets everywhere.....

Not all crashes are accidents....  

[Martin_1962]

these proposals all because No 10 says that too many people are being killed or seriously on our roads each year, surely education for pedestrians & drivers is the way foward. I have covered many fatal RTC's & in the Met area all accidents involving pedetrians & cars 80% of the time peds were to blame. Seems a knee jerk reaction by government.

Think this proposal needs more thought

Drunk pedestrians - thay are dangerous.

I see shocking driving everyday and everyone wonders why it happens to me - perhaps it is because I notice.

On the way to work today everyone was driving up each others bums, I kept back - guess who passed everyone - safely!

[razzo]

Road Traffic Accidents are now known as Road Traffic Collisions, down South

[STMO123]

these proposals all because No 10 says that too many people are being killed or seriously on our roads each year, surely education for pedestrians & drivers is the way foward. I have covered many fatal RTC's & in the Met area all accidents involving pedetrians & cars 80% of the time peds were to blame. Seems a knee jerk reaction by government.

Think this proposal needs more thought

Drunk pedestrians - thay are dangerous.

I see shocking driving everyday and everyone wonders why it happens to me - perhaps it is because I notice.

On the way to work today everyone was driving up each others bums, I kept back - guess who passed everyone - safely!

I see this paticular piece of idiocy every day on the motorway. They get right up a trucks ar*e and pull out suddenly, instead of hanging back and building up speed first.

[STMO123]

Road Traffic Accidents are now known as Road Traffic Collisions, down South

As Broocie says, everywhere.

[Jay w]

i heard about this yesterday from a friend.....in some ways its a good idea in other the speed limits need to be reviewed.

70 on a motorway (under normal conditions) is too slow, we are abot the slowets in Europe, many of then have limits of 120 or 130 kph 75/80 mph, and on the whole that is the speed at which people travel on the  motorways when conditions allow.
i could get shot for this but i believe there should be more variable speed sections of the motoway, when it is busy is does the thinking for those people who seem to be incapible of judging for themselves.

more emphasis should be placed on education not punishment, by that i mean if you arte caught speeding them you should be made to attend some sort of refresher training, implementing such an idea would be something that our government aren't intellegent enough to do and they wold waste millions of pounds worth of tax payers money as well.

[Dave-C]

i heard about this yesterday from a friend.....in some ways its a good idea in other the speed limits need to be reviewed.

70 on a motorway (under normal conditions) is too slow, we are abot the slowets in Europe, many of then have limits of 120 or 130 kph 75/80 mph, and on the whole that is the speed at which people travel on the  motorways when conditions allow.
i could get shot for this but i believe there should be more variable speed sections of the motoway, when it is busy is does the thinking for those people who seem to be incapible of judging for themselves.

more emphasis should be placed on education not punishment, by that i mean if you arte caught speeding them you should be made to attend some sort of refresher training, implementing such an idea would be something that our government aren't intellegent enough to do and they wold waste millions of pounds worth of tax payers money as well.

Dead right, Staffs Police had used to do it in Wolverhampto in 1989-90,  they'd pull folks over for speeding and give them the choice to sit through a 30 min vid, by all accounts a graphic vid of RTC's...  Shock tactics....  I was aware that this was happening, that was enough to slow me down....   However speed is OK in the right place, NEVER in residential areas...

DC