Bejasus
Well-Known Member
Re: Barking Wrong tree again
'Policing the roads can easily be done by cameras to catch bad driving.'
Sorry, agree with a lot of what you say, but the above statement is exactly the problem. Policing the roads cannot easily be done with cameras in this way. A camera cannot catch out bad/dangerous or drunk drivers. Only proper police traffic patrols can do this, and they are gradually(in some areas almost completely) being phased out in favour of speed cameras, as traffic crews cost money, whereas cameras create money.
Call it what you will, inapropriate speed/dangerous/ driving, in most cases of camera installation, it is at the behest of the local councils who set the local speed limits. I have no problem with cameras correctly sited. In fact, I was most disappointed, when earlier this year, the only 2 cameras in my local area, were torched, as I believe that in their settings, they were in the perfect spot.
On the other hand, there is a short stretch on the A1 near Nottingham where, a few years ago the local council dropped the dual carraigeway speed limit to 50 and there are now at least 4 cameras in each direction in the space of less than 2 miles. This is just crazy. In all my years of driving day and night through this spot, I have never seen evidence of even a single accident.
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'Policing the roads can easily be done by cameras to catch bad driving.'
Sorry, agree with a lot of what you say, but the above statement is exactly the problem. Policing the roads cannot easily be done with cameras in this way. A camera cannot catch out bad/dangerous or drunk drivers. Only proper police traffic patrols can do this, and they are gradually(in some areas almost completely) being phased out in favour of speed cameras, as traffic crews cost money, whereas cameras create money.
Call it what you will, inapropriate speed/dangerous/ driving, in most cases of camera installation, it is at the behest of the local councils who set the local speed limits. I have no problem with cameras correctly sited. In fact, I was most disappointed, when earlier this year, the only 2 cameras in my local area, were torched, as I believe that in their settings, they were in the perfect spot.
On the other hand, there is a short stretch on the A1 near Nottingham where, a few years ago the local council dropped the dual carraigeway speed limit to 50 and there are now at least 4 cameras in each direction in the space of less than 2 miles. This is just crazy. In all my years of driving day and night through this spot, I have never seen evidence of even a single accident.
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