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In article <35442848.1712726@nemesis.waverider.co.uk>, Chris Ward
<URL:mailto:chris@waverider.co.uk> wrote:
> Falcon of  
>   posted this to uk.local.birmingham on Sun, 26 Apr 1998 20:35:29 +0100
> 
> ' The idiots who race between speed cameras putting lives at risk are the ones
> ' who deserve our contempt.
> 
> They are not necessarily 'idiots'.
> They are not necessarily 'racing'.
> They are not necessarily putting lives at risk.
> They may well be travelling at a higher speed than the speed limit because
> they can see that it is safe to do so.
> The safe speed on any road varies continously according to road conditions,
> weather, other road users. It is not always the speed which some bureaucrat
> as put on the speed limit signs.
> Sometimes it is higher, sometimes it is lower.
> Speed cameras are not intended to improve road safety, otherwise they wouldn't
> be hidden behind trees, bushes, and road signs.
> They are intended to extort yet more money from drivers who don't know where
> they are.
> 

It makes one wonder why so much money is spent on traffic control
methods when 99.9% of road users are so very, very sensible: evidence
?  obviously this newsgroup. 

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