Labour are bringing in new rules that will mean drivers doing 94mph in a 70 will now get 6 penalty points and £100 fine. This means if you get camera'd twice, when your'e doing around the average motorway speed, you will lose your license.

Fair or not? Any comments?

 

Vote here :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/dmpolls/index.html?in_poll_id=13190&in_page_id=711

speeding is still speeding theres no ifs or buts........i always break the speed limit be it on a motorway or normal road and if/when i get caught ill pay the price for it.....will increased points fines stop me doing this, no it wont it will just make me go down the gypo route when i get another ban as you always do ill end up driving a car that isnt even in my name with no tax mot or insurance so nothing can be traced back to me when i give a false name addy etc etc..........is this right no do i feel bad about it no does this make me any less of a person no.......this is the way of the world and its only gonna get worse

The point is the governments and do-gooders obsession with speed limits and cameras is not working with regard to lowering fatalities on UK roads and that's a fact.

All they achieve is to raise revenue by convicting safe drivers. As the safety camera partnerships are growing, the numbers of traffic police are being cut, meanwhile the death toll on the roads is now rising after years of falls. No wonder when now ppl can drive un-licensed, drunk, drugged, dangerously tailgating or whatever, aslong as they dont exceed the speed limit they have little chance of being caught and no chance at all by a safety camera partnership!

The governments policy is 'The medicine isn't working so lets increase the dose' rather than change the medicine!

More reduced speed limits, cameras and higher death tolls to come , unless we can get Blairs lot out by some miracle!

Labour are bringing in new rules that will mean drivers doing 94mph in a 70 will now get 6 penalty points and £100 fine. This means if you get camera'd twice, when your'e doing around the average motorway speed, you will lose your license.

Fair or not? Any comments?

 

Vote here :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/dmpolls/index.html?

in_poll_id=13190&in_page_id=711

 

Hey Trevs is that your new motor. She looks a beauty Nice one :bow:

 

Yep it fooking ridiculous, cynical revenue collection, but no one wil do anything in this country but moan. Then that will be another right gone.

Call it a democracy? Bull sh1t dictatorship.

 

What about paid merternaty being raise to 9 month then next year to 12 months transferable between wife and husband. Just watch how many of your jobs disapear to India etc. Company's cannot afford that. Its barking. Do you think this government want us all on the dole, because if you don't loose your job cos you've got no licence you'll loose it because your employer has said, "fook this for a game of soldiers, lets move to New Delli".

 

Rant over i'll go back to admiring your lovely RX7 :)

Cheers Mark, yeah had the rx about a month now.

Thats the trouble, 80-90% of ppl dont want scamera partnerships and all the crazy lowering of speed limits , but will still vote the lab tssrs back in!

It's gonna get alot worse if they get back in, they're planning on scrapping the way speed limits are set (using 85th percentile) and replacing it with mean average speed limits, which work out to be alot lower and would be exceeded by 50% of drivers! Loads of revenue!

Agree with your maternity points, Brown thinks its a vote winner.

I like the way the variable limit on the M25 works, IN PRINCIPLE. More traffic = lower speed limit. (although why the feck there was a 50mph limit a couple of Sundays ago, 8 in the morning and me plus 1 other car around I'll never know. I guess they were expecting me out in the ZX, just waiting for me to reach 60 to blot my licence :rolleyes: )

 

But i think it should work in reverse when traffic subsides. Bring this system in on all m-ways, raising to a maximum of say 90 in clear, dry empty conditions and dropping to 40 in heavy traffic, dense fog etc. Plus educate drivers to drive safer and more aware of the conditions & surroundings.

 

I have driven on m-ways in France and Italy and the general standards are better than here. Italy has a 160km/h (100mph) limit now and their m-ways are only 2 lanes, but the mandatory limit lowers right down for urban m-ways or near several junctions, or in severly bad weather.

 

plus the police get traffic moving again quickly after an accident. Their main priority after safety/care of victims is maintaining traffic flow. Never happens here. PC plod take all day to clear an m-way, they spend hours measuring & investigating the cause so someone can be blamed.

 

Rant over....

 

As for tyre blow-outs I had the misfortune to have the N/S rear of the ZX go at 80+mph. The car didn't bat an eyelid and stayed straight. I was lane-changing at the time - pissed me off as the wheel got dented by a cat's eye during the manouver :o

 

Richard :)