Google Maps and Navigation – Speed Cameras

[Richard]

You can but dream; at least the visit was not in lets make it a shambles London. Where one of the urban terrorists was reported as saying she did not care if someone died trying to get to hospital and was held up by their ‘games’. I hope that if any of their antisocial squad gets hurt they have to wait in pain for a horse drawn ambulance to be found and deployed.

[Bob Williams]

Living and mostly traveling in a very rural area, I don’t have problems that some other Forumites have with heavy urban traffic problems. However, the best reason for a school 20 MPH limit explains itself in two local locations. One is in the village of Trusthorpe, near Mablethorpe, the other in a very small hamlet, North Ormsby. (Name is much longer than the hamlet!) Trusthorpe school lies between a series of very sharp bends and has holiday traffic driving through there, for example day trippers from the East Midlands come through on Fridays, after taking a long weekend.

Ormsby is a tight, country “Rat Run” road, used by locals to avoid A16 traffic and get to the A18/M18/Humber Bridge and airport roads, or the Laceby Morrisons large supermarket, faster. The Primary school is on a long straight road and its pupils are from many villages in a large radius. I use it fairly often, and always keep my speed down in school hours, but other drivers go through there far too fast. The limit is obviously necessary in both locations, but I can understand the objections and problems in Urban areas. One problem is clearly pollution: driving at 20 MPH creates heavier exhaust pollution from any vehicle. These two examples are typical of many Lincolnshire rural Primary school locations. Secondary schools are usually in the larger towns, and this creates another problem as Secondary pupils are bused home to villages and often have to leave the bus in hazardous areas. In my village this is complicated by the placement of a bus stop between a series of twisting bends on the A157. Further complications are happening as the village is receiving lots of new housing along the same stretch of road, with building traffic and utility companies using heavy vehicles. Atm it is a nightmare, when the holiday traffic starts coming for the bank holiday it will be much, much worse. Just crossing the road to the shop will mean taking our lives in our hands, trying to see/hear traffic around the bends.

Richard, one only has to look at these protesters to realise that, although many are there to make a genuine attempt to bring Climate Change to the notice of governments, others are not. They are the same self-confessed ‘Anarchists’ who go to each and every “Protest” occasion, simply to use the crowds as a screen to hide the pointless destruction and criminal damage they cause to property. Most of this tribe have never worked in their lives, some are obviously well spoken and possibly well educated: the expense of their education wasted in the same way as their lives are a waste of space.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Ed P]

Today the Climate Change protesters are protesting against the all-electric London Underground which saves countless daily car journeys. All they are doing is letting the world know that the ‘Extinction Rebellion’ mob are just a bunch of illogical cretins engaged in thoughtless anarchy.

[Richard]

Ed, well said if understated.

Bob, rent-a-mob has a lot to answer for.

If these ‘protesters’ want to do something one way would be for them to lose any bus pass, oyster card or driving licences they might hold as they clearly would prefer to walk or cycle. Oh and hold the courts in say Liverpool and let them walk home?

The major issue with 20 mph areas is less the speed limit per se, but the congestion connected to the zone and the consequent speed changes. Often this problem is caused by the thoughtless parked parents whose darlings cannot make use of their precious feet and legs.

[Author]

Posts