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A.J.Robinson@lut.ac.uk (Alan Robinson) writes:


>1)  Going out of a village (30 mph) into the country up a 1 in 7 hill
>there is a 90 degree bend. Just BEFORE this bend ('cos THATs where
>they've GOTTA GO according to THE BOOK) is a pair of our friendly 
>white signs with black bars. Just how you could go through
>these signs up the hill at 60 unless you had the road and about 300bhp
>to yourself I dont know. Why couldnt they put the signs furher up 
>the hill (eg on a straight bit) ? 

Why ?  It seems pretty convoluted logic to say that speed limits should
reflect the speeds that cars are capable of.  Ans what of those people
who do have powerful cars ?  Oh, I see, you want to punish them...

>I think this sort of thing sometimes leads to a distrust of signs,
>eg 'bad bend' chevvrons. Im sure you can think of horrendous bends
>that are just over the brow of a hill and as tight as a very tight
>thing, with no chevvrons at all  or a very few at best, and other
>bends that you could take at the speed limit that have more
>chevvrons than a thing with very many chevvrons.

These dangerous bend signs with advisory speeds were erected when cars
still ran on crossply tyres and had drum brakes all round.  They are
antiquated and should be ignored most of the time.  Most people recognise
this fact, but they don't seem to be able to apply that logic to speed
limits in general.            

Ian.
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Ian Crocker 					ian@cyborg.bt.co.uk