It's long been silly in built up areas, but the amount of times I now see police sat on bridges over motorways, trying to catch speeders, is getting really irritating.
Long gone are the days when I could rip up the M40 (for example), safe in the knowledge that you never saw police with cameras on there. It just didn't make sense for them... The M40 is not very busy outside rush hour, for the most part straight or with long sweeping turns, and I'd say over 75% of people using it do 85mph or above anyway (so less danger of piling into each other).
The last 10 times I have travelled on it, EVERY time there was a cop, on a bridge, with a camera. Cue heavy breaking all round and some poor sod getting caught no doubt. Luckily, never me.:bannana:
Until now, it was always a nice and relaxing drive on the M40. Now, you're on edge the whole journey for fear of not noticing the fuzz until it's too late. It irks me, and it's JUST DUMB.
There is the safety issue: a bunch of people doing 90 or so, then the first car in a queue slamming on the achors to avoid getting caught, thereby causing an accident. It's going to take a cop sat on a bridge causing a fatal pile-up for this to stop. Because what they're doing is not going to make everyone slow down.
There is the previous point about that motorway's traffic levels, etc.
There is the fact that speeding in built up areas is WAY more dangerous and would be a better use of cops with speed cameras' time.
There is the fact that speed differences are so much less on the motorway than in built up areas, where you could be doing a legal 30 in a 30 and have a closing speed of 40 as you hit a turning car. Go into the back of a car doing 60 when you are doing 85, and it's a lower closing speed. Plus there is minimal front-on collision danger.
IT IS JUST PLAIN STUPID. Rant over.
Having said all that, now I own a nice car for once, I've found myself doing 79 on cruise most of the time (as far as I know, you need to go faster for a ticket) - I've too much to lose now and there are just too many of the b******* around.
Long gone are the days when I could rip up the M40 (for example), safe in the knowledge that you never saw police with cameras on there. It just didn't make sense for them... The M40 is not very busy outside rush hour, for the most part straight or with long sweeping turns, and I'd say over 75% of people using it do 85mph or above anyway (so less danger of piling into each other).
The last 10 times I have travelled on it, EVERY time there was a cop, on a bridge, with a camera. Cue heavy breaking all round and some poor sod getting caught no doubt. Luckily, never me.:bannana:
Until now, it was always a nice and relaxing drive on the M40. Now, you're on edge the whole journey for fear of not noticing the fuzz until it's too late. It irks me, and it's JUST DUMB.
There is the safety issue: a bunch of people doing 90 or so, then the first car in a queue slamming on the achors to avoid getting caught, thereby causing an accident. It's going to take a cop sat on a bridge causing a fatal pile-up for this to stop. Because what they're doing is not going to make everyone slow down.
There is the previous point about that motorway's traffic levels, etc.
There is the fact that speeding in built up areas is WAY more dangerous and would be a better use of cops with speed cameras' time.
There is the fact that speed differences are so much less on the motorway than in built up areas, where you could be doing a legal 30 in a 30 and have a closing speed of 40 as you hit a turning car. Go into the back of a car doing 60 when you are doing 85, and it's a lower closing speed. Plus there is minimal front-on collision danger.
IT IS JUST PLAIN STUPID. Rant over.
Having said all that, now I own a nice car for once, I've found myself doing 79 on cruise most of the time (as far as I know, you need to go faster for a ticket) - I've too much to lose now and there are just too many of the b******* around.
