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Eg, one of the speed cameras nearby where I live
The remarkable thing is that it didn't actually increase the journey time at all - but it did remove the dickish behaviour of people constantly speeding up and then braking to try to force their way past slower traffic that had been the normal characteristic on that stretch previously, resulting in you having to keep a hair-trigger reaction to brake lights ahead, massively increasing stress levels as well as fuel consumption. I was genuinely disappointed when the roadworks finished and the cameras were removed.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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Of course in Wales that's all been ruined as we now have to make that law breaking decision again, as sticking to 20mph can turn you into a rolling obstruction to traffic flow. Every single vehicle for the last ten minutes or so has passed my window at between 30 and 40 mph, anyone sticking to 20 would have a queue of tailgaters.
Can sit on the road pedal to the floor and its capped at 30 or whatever I set it to. Just got to watch it on downhill roads.
Whichever way you look at it there's no pleasure in driving any more. I'm a big believer in driving to the road conditions rather just following zombie-like a pre-established set of rules which may have no bearing on conditions or circumstances. So I object to being heavily fined for travelling over a speed limit on a completely empty road at 3 a.m., for example. I'm sure that'll shock a lot of people. I'm also not comfortable with surveillance and cameras at the best of times, used for everything from entering a building, walking or driving, anywhere really - I even saw cameras in a church the other day. Having more of them just depresses me a bit. Like the chap above, the result of it all has meant we've all started having to film each other in order to feel safe (although it probably does the opposite in reality). I guess I'm just nostalgic for freedom!!
I really like them. Before I went self-employed I used to commute the A428 into Bedford. When they installed the average speed cameras for a long chunk of my route it became much more relaxed with the lack of knobheads treating the curvy bits like the Maggots / Beckets complex at Silverstone.
It was still the sodding Thunderdome at either end though.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Get a bike. Easy to average more than 9 mph.