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Re: New GATSO cameras (A45)

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From: Adrian Vickers
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 00:00
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"Falcon" <falcon@wingmcmail.com> babbled:

> :Locals will of course soon learn where they are and treat them with
> :the contempt they deserve.
> :Visitors to the city will be the ones who get caught.
> :Welcome to Birmingham.
>
> The idiots who race between speed cameras putting lives at risk are the ones
> who deserve our contempt.
> 
WRT Gatsos, the problem wouldn't be a problem if some of the speed limits were
sensible. 30mph on open dual-carriageway is /not/ sensible IM*H*O.

As for racing between cameras... I /do/ speed up between cameras, but (say) if
I'm in a 50 limit I won't go above 60-65. In a 30 limit I tend to go 33 or 
thereabouts, after a nearly-nasty incident in a little village somewhere near
Stafford (main road turned 90degrees right; I went straight on!!). That said,
I will go faster on dual-carriageways unless my forward vision is severely
impared.

As for m/way cameras - has anyone in this NG recieved a ticket after being
photoed on the M25 in the variable-limit section? I remember travelling 
anti-clockwise one day and seeing literally hundreds of camera-flashes on
the opposite carriageway!

-- 
Ade.
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From: disregard@toolsbase.demon.co.uk (Adrian Vickers)
Subject: Re: New GATSO cameras (A45)
Date: 1998/04/26
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