Conference terri::cars_uk

1819.0. "Smile, you've been banned by camera !" by SHAWB1::WILLOUGHBYD (The man with no personal name) Sun Jul 05 1992 15:26

    Apologies if this note's been entered before. I did a dir on everything
    since january and couldn't see anything related.
    
    What's everyone's opinion on the new traffic laws which allow the
    police to use cameras to catch speeders and wreckless drivers ?
    
    I hve rather mixed feelings about it. I suppose it's a good thing for
    town traffic, where putting patrol cars just to monitor speeding is
    costly and probably not very effective at reducing accidents. I'm not
    so sure about using this method on motorways. There are undoubtedly
    times of the day and particular strtches of motorway where 70mph is
    probably quite fast enough, but there are equally many occasions when
    conditions should really dictate that driving at 80/90 is quite safe.
    The use of cameras means that even in situations where the motorway is
    almost empty you will still have to drive at 70mph. 
    
    
    I guess the simple answer to that is "well you would be breaking the
    law", and I guess there's really no answer to that. What I find much
    more alarming is that with cameras set to spring up all over the place
    it would be perfectly possible to get banned in one journey. This is
    the aspect of the use of cameras that really bothers me. When you get
    caught by a speed trap, at least you are apprehended at the time you
    committed the offence, and it might make you slow down from then on,
    especially if you already have points on your license. But with the use
    of cameras, you might not get a summons through for a month, and in the
    time since you were caught to the time you know about it, you might have
    been photographed down the same stretch of road a dozen times. So
    another dozen summons' could drop through your door before you even
    been endorsed for the first one.
    
    
    BTW does anyone know what these tall poles with cameras on are for,
    that have sprung up on the M6 and M62 ? Are they for monitoring traffic
    flow or catching speeders ? 
    
    Dave

    See note 1805.*
    
    Laurie.

    Oh no.......not again!!!!!
    
    
    

    Apologies. How could I have missed that lot. Looks like they'll take a
    couple of days to read them
    
    Dave