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Fortunately, we don't have to many plod in our locale. We don't have too many footpaths either!

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DaveB :tab:

Garry Russell wrote:If motorost become bad tempered and aggressive because they are held up then they should not be driving.

They have a license that means they are able to drive in all conditions without distraction etc and be above that sort of behaviour.

Garry

Head against a brick wall springs to mind.

Garry

I, more often than not, cycle the two miles to work along a busy main road and TBH the pavement is the safest place to be.

The road is used by more than its fair share of professional ASBO holders who, for reasons that escape me, think it's a good idea to light up the road surface underneath the vehicle with blue light..they can't carry passengers as most of the vehicle is taken up with a sound system..

...but they all seem to play the same tune, you must have heard it, it goes:

'dumn dumn dumn dumn twat twat twat twat dumn twat dumn twat.......'

Derek ;-)

DelP wrote:..they can't carry passengers as most of the vehicle is taken up with a sound system..

...but they all seem to play the same tune, you must have heard it, it goes:

'dumn dumn dumn dumn twat twat twat twat dumn twat dumn twat.......'

I think the last line very accurately describes the drivers of said vehicles!

Brilliant description Derek!!

How many times have you been waiting at traffic lights and hear that familiar noise approaching from somewhere and then find it directly behind you, all of a sudden your car seems to be jumping up and down to the rythme from their sub woofer.... no music just...dum twat...dum twat...Oh, how I wish I carried a mallet with me some times!! :brick:

Nigel.

I don't know about the UK, but in the US the only major reason everyone speeds is that speed limits are not set by engineers, they are legislated to be unreasonably low so that towns and cities can collect more ticket revenue. A road that is good for 70MPH will generally have a speed limit around 30.

The speed limits within the city of St Cloud are completely unacceptable. You need to speed if you do not want to get every red light in town. This is common throughout the US. It forces the average citizen to speed to be able to get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time (and thus have any life at home at all including a proper amount of sleep - at the end of the week the average American is short some 18 hours of sleep and is therefore drunk), which means the city has a better chance of squeezing even more money out of its citizens.

Throw in some silly city ordinances (if someone in your apartment building has a barking dog, and a neighbour calls the police, and you happen to be the only person in the building, you will get the fine and misdemeanor) and your city council can fund more police that we don't need as they seem bored enough already.

Some of the comments in this thread are rather presumptuous. Perhaps in the UK speed limits are more reasonable. Your society, after all, was not founded by daft puritans.

One thing I have to say about the UK is that the speed limits are, in the vast majority of cases, perfectly fair and I wouldn't ever want to see them changing (although dropping certain 30 zones down to 20 wouldn't be a bad thing). The only time this isn't true is usually on winding country lanes that have a speed limit far in excess of what safe driving on the road would be, however this isn't so much a problem with the speed limit as with peoples mentality, as has already been pointed out in this thread people see a speed limit as a target to be hit so anything under is unacceptable in their minds.

You're not a vegetarian are you Chris with affiliations to Green Peace and Save the Whales??

There is also a little thing called 'failing to proceed'.. eg, going significantly slower than the maximum permitted speed and for this, you can fail your driving test. While poodling along at 30mph in a 50mph zone without a care in the world.. all you do is create a long queue of antagonised drivers behind you :roll:

Equally so.. the filter lanes on motorways are not there to dawdle along.. they're there (and specifically long enough) for you to build up to motorway speed which in turn should allow you to filter onto a motorway without causing everything in the inside lane to move out.
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DaveB :tab:

DaveB wrote:You're not a vegetarian are you Chris with affiliations to Green Peace and Save the Whales??

There is also a little thing called 'failing to proceed'.. eg, going significantly slower than the maximum permitted speed and for this, you can fail your driving test. While poodling along at 30mph in a 50mph zone without a care in the world.. all you do is create a long queue of antagonised drivers behind you :roll:

Equally so.. the filter lanes on motorways are not there to dawdle along.. they're there (and specifically long enough) for you to build up to motorway speed which in turn should allow you to filter onto a motorway without causing everything in the inside lane to move out.
ATB

DaveB :tab:

You're telling me things I already know or have already stated further up in the thread, and I'm going to ignore the scathing trio of insults. How dare you insinuate that I've anything to do with Greenpeace, Save the Whales, Veggies or anything else of that kin !

Seriously though, I certainly hope you're not aiming the second and third paragraphs at me as I've already covered that elsewhere in the thread.

I stand by my comments about idiots seeing the speed limit as a target sometimes when it clearly isn't safe to drive. A road I used to live close to in Scotland was a 60mph road, although it was hardly ever safe to drive at that speed on it depending on the glare from the sun and the weather conditions at the time. But regardless people continued to push until they hit 60 in conditions where 40 would have been more appropriate and continued to wrap themselves around lamposts and in tragic cases murder others on the road due to their reckless behaviour. Of course there are times when you should be building up speed such as filter lanes and dawdling along at a speed quite a bit lower than the rest of the traffic is always going to cause accidents (again as I pointed out further up the thread). But you cannot deny that there are plenty of roads where aiming to hit the speed limit rather than a common sense safe limit dictated by the road conditions at the time is downright dangerous.