Some stuff about speed limits

[j s pollo]

My daughter lives in Birmingham she got zapped by a copper hiding behind a hedge she got nicked for doing 23 mph in a newly introduced 20 mph stretch of road she now has nine points on her licence .
On her weekly visit last week she says to me Dad will you please lend your angle grinder i have some house repairs to do I had to tell her it was already lent out to one of my mates i do not understand why a female would want to borrow a grinder for house repairs .

 

[Wack61]

I do think this is quite funny. In a sad sad way. We have 40 km/h here in town, 30km/h passing schools, and you know what, it’s fine. You get used to it. The uproar about adding 5 minutes to most people’s average journey to drop the kids off, it really isn’t that big a deal.
Speeding in built up areas is. And from my experience, that’s what most people do.

Our councils are run by morons , they spent a fortune putting up 20mph signs on housing estates yet the primary school entrance close to me is on a blind bend and it's still 30mph

Anyone speeding in a 30 is just brain dead, 40 years ago you might have got somewhere but today traffic and traffic lights mean you're going nowhere

Just last week I was following a taxi , had to be a BMW, car in front slowed to 30 , he did a sudden overtake despite a car coming in the opposite direction then 400m up the road we all sat at the traffic lights
What a tit

 

[philw696]

Here in our village in France we have a portable speed indicator on a post that gets moved around regularly on the 30 kmph sections and if you're observing the limit you get a smiley face and exceeding you get the unhappy one.
It works well and no fines for anyone looked after by the village administration and moved by the guys that look after the village.
Constantly punishing people catching them by hiding behind bushes etc just causes resentment.

 

[zagatoes30]

We have loads of smiley face signs in Ireland and they are a good reminder to keep within limits but the current transport minister, a green I might add, is pushing for a nationwide dropping of all speed limits by one, so a current 50kph becomes a 30, 80 becomes a 50, 120 becomes 100. Only issue is we have very few ANPR cameras, they're consider an invasion of privacy, very few Garda (their corrupt and useless) which only leaves mobile Camera vans which the drivers always park in the same places and everyone knows where they are and every driver flashes you when there out. In all other places the Irish drive how they like but saying that they normally are sensible and rarely do you see a muppet behaving badly.

 

[zagatoes30]

We also have mobile chicanes, called tractors, which are allowed on any road. It certainly wakes you up when your doing 120kph on an empty dark motorway and you suddenly come up across a badly lit tractor with a trailer the size of a small house doing 20kph.

 

[philw696]

We also have mobile chicanes, called tractors, which are allowed on any road. It certainly wakes you up when your doing 120kph on an empty dark motorway and you suddenly come up across a badly lit tractor with a trailer the size of a small house doing 20kph.

We've got those too and they are huge now especially this time of year make my Jaguar look tiny.

 

[Delmonte]

We have a major problem near me, of kids on modified E scooters driving around at 40 mph+, middle of the road, overtaking everything, in rush hour, in 30 zones or less.
These aren't even legal anywhere, even if obeying speed limits.
Or electric motorbikes, also illegal without plates / license / insurance / helmet etc (which they blatantly never have any of).
The Filth and local authorities don't have any f***'s to give.
Meanwhile, I get a fixed penalty from a camera, doing 34mph in a 30. At 4.15am on way to work. On a road as empty as you'd imagine at that time... that has huge wide bus lanes on both sides, making it a 4 lane road with huge buffer zones between car lane and pavement. No pedestrians obvs at that time, anyway. Houses only on one side, beyond the bus lane and the big verges... closed businesses on the other side.....
I could go on...

 

[sionie1]

Be thankful not many of you are in the Peoples Republic of Wales, where the Beloved Leader and Chief CocWomble Drakeford has introduced 20 as the default, but with no repeater signage and some roads being exempt ( allegedly), but again with no signage. People are driving at 15mph with no idea of what speed limit is on some roads. 456k people signed a petition, the most ever and fastest number of signatures and he still won't discuss it. All the Labour SMs are not speaking out, despite the level of electorate saying they want it reversing or at least more thought given. I know of a self employed person who is now having to either work 3 hours a day extra or lose £250 per day because of lost appointments as unfortunately for him all of his clients are in built up areas.He highlighted this to his local Senedd Member and was sent a leaflet on how to manage his finances better....

 

[Delmonte]

Be thankful not many of you are in the Peoples Republic of Wales, where the Beloved Leader and Chief CocWomble Drakeford has introduced 20 as the default, but with no repeater signage and some roads being exempt ( allegedly), but again with no signage. People are driving at 15mph with no idea of what speed limit is on some roads. 456k people signed a petition, the most ever and fastest number of signatures and he still won't discuss it. All the Labour SMs are not speaking out, despite the level of electorate saying they want it reversing or at least more thought given. I know of a self employed person who is now having to either work 3 hours a day extra or lose £250 per day because of lost appointments as unfortunately for him all of his clients are in built up areas.He highlighted this to his local Senedd Member and was sent a leaflet on how to manage his finances better....

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[zagatoes30]

Don't get me started on E-Scooters, how these are allowed without regulation is absolutely beyond me. Even rules that apply to cyclists don't seem to apply to these especially in the cities and built up areas

 

[CatmanV2]

Don't get me started on E-Scooters, how these are allowed without regulation is absolutely beyond me. Even rules that apply to cyclists don't seem to apply to these especially in the cities and built up areas

Well they *aren't* allowed so....

There was a young lad hit and killed on one round hear just a few weeks ago. While I feel sorry for his family, I also fee for the driver. But there have been (fortunately short lived) calls for reduction in the local speed limits and for the road in question to be renamed 'in his honour'....

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[Harry]

We have a major problem near me, of kids on modified E scooters driving around at 40 mph+, middle of the road, overtaking everything, in rush hour, in 30 zones or less.
These aren't even legal anywhere, even if obeying speed limits.
Or electric motorbikes, also illegal without plates / license / insurance / helmet etc (which they blatantly never have any of).
The Filth and local authorities don't have any f***'s to give.
Meanwhile, I get a fixed penalty from a camera, doing 34mph in a 30. At 4.15am on way to work. On a road as empty as you'd imagine at that time... that has huge wide bus lanes on both sides, making it a 4 lane road with huge buffer zones between car lane and pavement. No pedestrians obvs at that time, anyway. Houses only on one side, beyond the bus lane and the big verges... closed businesses on the other side.....
I could go on...

I feel you pain! I’ve got an online speed awareness course on Monday (58 in a 50 empty motorway at night where I thought there were no cameras for months and the limit was lifted a couple of days later). Meanwhile, the Sidcup Bypass/A20 East has a new temporary av speed 40, after the well known 50mph speed camera. The 40 eventually leads straight into the end of statutory speed limit sign for the 70mph M20. Which I think is even more dangerous than the puddle of water they have introduced the speed limit for!
Rant over, I hope no one wasted their time reading that through - unless they are also irked by the A20.

 

[Harry]

Don't get me started on E-Scooters, how these are allowed without regulation is absolutely beyond me. Even rules that apply to cyclists don't seem to apply to these especially in the cities and built up areas

Bikes are all over the pavements now too. The riders are like oversized toddlers, pedalling along as if they are too young to be on the nasty road.

 

[Harry]

I actually felt sorry for the grumpy lady in Cambridge who shooed a cyclist off the road and was convicted of manslaughter.

 

[Harry]

I actually felt sorry for the grumpy lady in Cambridge who shooed a cyclist off the road and was convicted of manslaughter.

*off the pavement onto the road, I meant to say.

 

[Harry]

Where’s the old Rant Thread? The above comments have triggered me and I now need to vent my spleen about washing machines

 

[midlifecrisis]

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Where’s the old Rant Thread? The above comments have triggered me and I now need to vent my spleen about washing machines

Sounds like fun, go for it.

 

[Wack61]

We also have mobile chicanes, called tractors, which are allowed on any road. It certainly wakes you up when your doing 120kph on an empty dark motorway and you suddenly come up across a badly lit tractor with a trailer the size of a small house doing 20kph.

Some years ago I was on the M65 heading towards Blackburn, there's a steep hill approaching J5 that's badly designed , at the top 3 lanes merge into 2 so you've got traffic overtaking trucks as cars are merging, loads of crashes

I was following a new shape VW beetle , in the distance a truck in lane 1 producing a lot of smoke, experience said he's going really slow, only the VW didn't slow despite me flashing headlights, right up to the point she was almost on it , then she realised and swerved to miss it without looking at all , luckily I'd backed off and the road was quiet because she ended up in lane 3 throwing up debris from the central reservation

If it'd been dark she'd be dead