View Full Version : Swindon Ditches Speed Cameras
cpfc12
31-07-2009, 05:52 PM
"At the end of the day all these devices do is take pictures of people breaking the speed limit, they're not actually managing the speeds and they're not educating people."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8178347.stm
ex sheep
31-07-2009, 06:08 PM
Same could be said about the CCTV cameras, they don't do their job , just look at 9/11, one little shitty 4 frame slides, for the most heavily guarded building on earth.
7/7 was the same a few dodgy shots of the supposed bombers.
Bin these cameras as well they don't work.
cpfc12
31-07-2009, 06:10 PM
Again though i wonder whether cctv cameras are of much use, i know that cctv cameras have prevented me from commiting crime in the past. But i can see it only helping in some extreme cases, and more in the case of prosecution not prevention, however this canb eargued.
keystone
31-07-2009, 06:22 PM
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cpfc12
31-07-2009, 06:39 PM
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Quite a fair share of cameras are used by local councils/tax revenues/ businesses
keystone
31-07-2009, 06:50 PM
Quite a fair share of cameras are used by local councils/tax revenues/ businessesThe thread is about speed cameras. Anyway - t'was a joke. :(
jammasterj13
31-07-2009, 08:32 PM
Thank fuck somebody saw the sense to remove these idiot boxes.
I had to go on a fucking speed awareness course for doing 38 in a 30mph zone.:eek:
Fooking ridiculous.
moonflower
31-07-2009, 10:20 PM
That's fair enough but what proper road training education have the planned to replace the idiot boxes with? Not that i'm saying they were a substitute for proper education, it's just that they left all this out for the last 10 years. It used to be that drivers were quite well educated in driving skills and common-sense in this country through:
Common sense approach to policing(not revenue based)
Advertisements about dangerous driving
And stern ticking offs from hendon trained traffic police (not the pretend ones you see today)
I actually remember being stopped for driving too slow by one of the last old school traffic police in the UK just when the speed thing kicked in and I was brainwashed (by the new speed awareness crap) into thinking more speed = more danger!
Looking at the stats says otherwise though with most accidents (about 50%) caused by 'looked but didn't see' i.e. human error. About 5% are caused by exceeding a posted limit. About 15% by excessive speed for the conditions, which funnily enough is not much to do with exceeding a posted limit.
I suggest we go back to proper road engineering, sound TV advertisements on dangerous driving (tiredness, tailgating, coming out at junctions), and get Britain back to what it used to be no1 in the world for - traffic policing.
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