Third speeding ticket in six months!!

[Paddy]

There are a pair of local speed-cameras I wholeheartedly approve of. They're on the A43 dual carrigeway near Silverstone, where there's a dip, and in the dip is a pub and hotel, plus a lane leading off in the other direction to a village. This means traffic often has to turn right across the dual carrigeway, and the dip means the neither the people turning nor the people on the dual carrigeway have a good view. There are speed cameras in both directions are perfectly positioned to slow people down so they can see what's going on, and TBH it's scary enough with the traffic doing 70mph.

But what sets these apart from 99% of speed cameras is that there are big "speed camera" signs in each direction giving pleanty of warning. 10/10 for Northants police in this instance for putting improving safety above revenue generation, or worse, trying to turn ordinary law abiding people into criminials to try to acheive some kind of political motive.

Sadly, I think Northants are one of the worst in other areas, but still. Credit where it's due.

Of course, a bridge would be a far beter, and safer solution.

I quite agree with you.

[d000hg]

I bet their GPS cost's more than a £100 TomTom though

Maybe, but is a GPS just a GPS and the extra money goes on other things, or does spending more improve the accuracy in any way?

[pjclarke]

Vectra and EO - The Home Office stats I quoted were adjusted both for the background trend and regression to the mean (see the report for a discussion). They still show a significant decrease in serious and fatal crashes.

See also
TRL - Performance of safety cameras in London: Final Report - Road User Safety - TRL Reports - Reports & Publications - Online Store

A detailed evaluation of the impact of speed cameras on safety

A 21% decrease in fatal crashes in London, a 20% decrease in 30 zones nationwide. Cameras save lives.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Maybe, but is a GPS just a GPS and the extra money goes on other things, or does spending more improve the accuracy in any way?

I was thinking that - a £5 quartz watch was more accurate than the Rolex I used to have

[Paddy]

Maybe, but is a GPS just a GPS and the extra money goes on other things, or does spending more improve the accuracy in any way?

Yes, even for a few pounds more will give improved the accuracy and there are now dual GLONAS-GPS systems. If you pay a lot more the accuracy can get down to five centimetres.

[Platypus]

There are a pair of local speed-cameras I wholeheartedly approve of. They're on the A43 dual carrigeway near Silverstone

I was nicked by one of those, about 10 years ago

[pjclarke]

Yikes. Garden gnomes might be better than cameras

Some background on your 'source':

George Monbiot – Paul Smith and Safe Speed – the Self-Exposure of a Crank

[EternalOptimist]

Some background on your 'source':

George Monbiot – Paul Smith and Safe Speed – the Self-Exposure of a Crank

Shock Horror! someone,somewhere, on the interweb, believes the opposite of what someone else believes on the interweb

[Paddy]

Some background on your 'source':

George Monbiot – Paul Smith and Safe Speed – the Self-Exposure of a Crank

FFS not him!

George Joshua Richard Monbiot ... A first class TWAT

Monbiot believes that drastic action coupled with strong political will is needed to combat global warming...there is an urgent need for a raft of emergency actions he believes will stop climate change, including: setting targets on greenhouse emissions... constructing large offshore wind farms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monbiot

[pjclarke]

Ah - here comes the personal abuse and excuses in the absence of a cordial debate of the evidence ....... run out of ideas guys?

All Monbiot did was point out the fact that the Safespeed founder (since deceased) was invited to submit his data for academic scrutiny - and declined. Sorry if he hit a nerve ....