H2O
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Anybody entering Poole by road should have a look at this it has been on local radio all day.
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/44...ivers_in_Poole/
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/44...ivers_in_Poole/
Anybody entering Poole by Road
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Tranona
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Could not agree more with the antis. That road was designed and built for 70mph. The limit is now 50. Just about all the accidents have occurred at speeds so high - over 100mph for one with 2 deaths that a speed limit is an irrelevance. Or they occur at a badly sited and designed, unnecessary right turn junction. The traffic lights in question and 30 limit section does not have accidents because it is wide, well signposted and obvious.
But when have facts been relevant against zealous bigots?
But when have facts been relevant against zealous bigots?
Robin
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Yep, welcome to Poole and Bournemouth, Ker-ching oh and thanks for the donation you are the 500th today.
This whole area is camera crazy. A road built for 70mph with dual carriageway and central crash barriers is cut to 50mph and then 4 cameras installed in 3 miles. Another camera hidden carefully behind a sign warning of cameras which in turn is hidden behind a tree which in turn is just round a bend, it is downhill too so you need brakes all the way to avoid going 1mph over the limit.
Yet nobody seems to catch the drunk drivers carefully weaving their way down the road at 25mph or the foreign registered wrecks not on the system and probably uninsured. Then there are the texters finger tapping like mad on their mobiles, no problem if they stray across to the wrong side of the road just as long as they stay below the speed limit.
We have roundabouts with multiple traffic lights, lane markings on them that you are so busy watching you can miss the lights ahead changing and the cars in front stopping - and now the cameras on the lights will check speed as well! You get paranoid about the lights, they always seem to change just as you get there and it is a 50:50 call stop dead or go and now in case you dare stray over the 30 limit they'll get you for that.
This whole area is camera crazy. A road built for 70mph with dual carriageway and central crash barriers is cut to 50mph and then 4 cameras installed in 3 miles. Another camera hidden carefully behind a sign warning of cameras which in turn is hidden behind a tree which in turn is just round a bend, it is downhill too so you need brakes all the way to avoid going 1mph over the limit.
Yet nobody seems to catch the drunk drivers carefully weaving their way down the road at 25mph or the foreign registered wrecks not on the system and probably uninsured. Then there are the texters finger tapping like mad on their mobiles, no problem if they stray across to the wrong side of the road just as long as they stay below the speed limit.
We have roundabouts with multiple traffic lights, lane markings on them that you are so busy watching you can miss the lights ahead changing and the cars in front stopping - and now the cameras on the lights will check speed as well! You get paranoid about the lights, they always seem to change just as you get there and it is a 50:50 call stop dead or go and now in case you dare stray over the 30 limit they'll get you for that.
Tranona
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What a lovely description of my home town! The one thing you did not mention is the failure to deal with the Subaru drivers. It was one of these that left the road at 110mph on the Holes Bay road (perhaps he wanted to be a boat) killing two of his mates on the way. No amount of 50 or 70 limits, speed cameras etc will deal with such people, but it was the final act that prompted the 50 limit on that road.
However, I am fortunate if I go west from where I live I don't have to see all that - just crawl behind all the caravans and Tesco delivery lorries!
However, I am fortunate if I go west from where I live I don't have to see all that - just crawl behind all the caravans and Tesco delivery lorries!
Robin
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It is my home town too.
The town slogan is 'Poole is a wonderful place' and it really is except for the traffic now and those damn cameras. I don't believe in speeding either but nor do I see these things doing anything except collect money, much of it I guess from tourists who maybe won't return again. Locals pretty well know the camera locations, but even then can get caught like SWMBO did for 35mph in a 30 limit that was a 40 limit the week before, and she NEVER speeds! We have a Satnav with 'Safety' Cameras' on and never used it locally until then, nowadays it is on every trip even to go to Tesco.
The town slogan is 'Poole is a wonderful place' and it really is except for the traffic now and those damn cameras. I don't believe in speeding either but nor do I see these things doing anything except collect money, much of it I guess from tourists who maybe won't return again. Locals pretty well know the camera locations, but even then can get caught like SWMBO did for 35mph in a 30 limit that was a 40 limit the week before, and she NEVER speeds! We have a Satnav with 'Safety' Cameras' on and never used it locally until then, nowadays it is on every trip even to go to Tesco.
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Cameras (not the average speed ones) are great fun:
Make sure your entry speed to the "checkpoint" is bang on, drop a couple of gears, and apply full throttle as you pass the last marker line /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Make sure your entry speed to the "checkpoint" is bang on, drop a couple of gears, and apply full throttle as you pass the last marker line /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
jhr
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Several years ago, there was an experimental gadget on the road from Beaulieu, near the Exbury turning, for a while. It displayed a caution message to the effect that you were exceeding the speed limit (40) and then posted up your actual speed as a ghastly warning. Sadly, it wasn't there for very long.
My personal best was about 70 but with a turbo you always run out of grunt at the wrong moment /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif.
I know, I know; it's neither big nor clever......
My personal best was about 70 but with a turbo you always run out of grunt at the wrong moment /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif.
I know, I know; it's neither big nor clever......
Robin
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We have had those in various places and now they seem to have vanished at least from my local routes. I thought they were effective but of course they cost rather than make money.
I just returned from a 3 mile return trip to the store, during which I saw 3 different berks talking on the phone and one pulled out in front of a car on a roundabout. Another twit nearly mowed down a pedestrian as he turned into a side street having accelerated hard to get ahead of a car going the other way. There is some seriously bad driving going on that goes unnoticed or at least unpunished but stray 1mph over that limit and bingo there goes £60.
I just returned from a 3 mile return trip to the store, during which I saw 3 different berks talking on the phone and one pulled out in front of a car on a roundabout. Another twit nearly mowed down a pedestrian as he turned into a side street having accelerated hard to get ahead of a car going the other way. There is some seriously bad driving going on that goes unnoticed or at least unpunished but stray 1mph over that limit and bingo there goes £60.
Tranona
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Its OK they are up in Broadstone now. One on the ntrance tot he Broadway, One on Springdale road, one on Higher Blanford road and one for a couple of weeks in West Way - rather stupidly not where people speed and have accidents which is outside my house!. Squealing tyres and Subaru waffles don't go together!