I agree, but while fixed cameras are not the answer covert ones don't deter either, they just catch people. Quietly.
If the police are there anyway with the speed traps why not be seen doing it? They wouldn't catch as many but then they would have an effect on speeding. Thats the aim isn't it?
And again, where was the last speed trap you saw? Was it by a school or other youth hang out? Or was it on an open road?
We have a particularly nasty one where they lay in wait less than 100 yards before a national speed limit on a dual carrigeway, still in a 40mph. Its not dangerous to speed up there, people do because they can see the sign just ahead. Its also just after a slip road so your attention is on the merging traffic, not looking for a speed trap.
Kerching!
I dont speed, I dont complain about being caught and fined bacause I haven't been. I complain aobut speed cameras because they dont work. There has been NO significant reduction in accident rates anywhere since the introduction of cameras. Fixed cameras are cash cows nothing more. If they wern't there would be more outside schools and less on long straight roads. People slow down past them then continue as normal. So yes - they might work on that 100yd section of road but not overall.
What works best to prevent speeding is high profile policing. The covert tactics employed by using an unmarked truck do little to prevent speeding. It just adds wieght to the arguement that its about revenue rather than prevention.
Our local police force are currently using an old dirty removal truck with a small hole in the tail lift for the camera to poke through. Its unmarked. Its almost invisible.
Its sole purpose is to catch speeders. Its no deterant whatsoever. Putting a marked vehicle out would absolutly deter speeders. Hiding a camera in a mucky van on long clear straight roads is not the way to prevent speeding, it can only cash in on it.
Alternatively....
Speed saves lives
Who said they dont need speed limits?
I dont understand why we cant have variable speed limits as outside schools in Scotland. Its easy enough to understand and works very well in my opinion. When lights flash the speed limit is lowered to 20mph but there's no point in having it at 20 the rest of the time. It would work just as well at peak times on any road.
And speed cameras are supposed to be placed where there have been so many accidents in the past but the accidents are rarely attributed to speed. They're placed where they can make the most money NOT where they can prevent the most accidents.
With the proposals to lower the natitonal speed limit on rural roads from 60mph to 50mph they'll make even more profit.
Trolls? Know of any do you kaz? Why dont you ask em if they're inadequate? Im sure they'd tell you truthfully if you asked nicely.
Right then, well I'll leave you to it. Im not out to upset of offend anyone so I'll slide away quietly before I do.
Adios amigos
Promiscuity = desparation??? no, I dont think so. I think it might more accurate to say the ones who want to be promiscuos but perhaps arent who are far more desparate. The ones in chatroom who dont want to waste 10 minutes getting to know you if theres no chance of a shag the same day.
And as some have rightly pointed out this is hardly the place to call into question sexual morals! Each to their own.
I agree with the last statement 100% though.
