tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post6908677068778581920..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Not Good EnoughDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-62387215062155219962009-12-11T23:47:11.994+00:002009-12-11T23:47:11.994+00:00With the traffic in London you would be hard pushe...With the traffic in London you would be hard pushed to ever get up to 20 mph.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-54121185390100167972009-12-11T22:21:30.924+00:002009-12-11T22:21:30.924+00:00A couple of things spring to mind...
(1) I'm ...A couple of things spring to mind...<br /><br />(1) I'm sure that I've seen some stats that show that although there's a reduction in the number of accidents in20mph zones, those that do occur are of greater severity;<br /><br />(2) There's no legal requirement for a car's speedometer to record accurately a speed of less than 30mph. 20mph zones have to be "enforced" by speed bumps and other car-damaging trancklements. So to change massive numbernof 30 zones to 20s is going to involve huge amounts of construction work - and a probable equal increase in the number of back problems reported to the NHS and suspension problems reported to the local garage!Pogohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10812765444160924585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-62419707626855519132009-12-11T19:03:50.363+00:002009-12-11T19:03:50.363+00:00In order to keep us all healthy, safe, secure and ...In order to keep us all healthy, safe, secure and under control for all time, why don't they just pass a law to encapsulate each and every one of us in a huge vat of nutritious goo with tubes running into and out of the necessary orifices enough to keep us alive and then the world rulers can be sure it's all under their control and have one here and one there brought out of pickling when it's time to suit their fancy, then put back in again when they're through. It would be the ultimate outcome at the rate things are going. Al Gore, UN, EU, ASH, Nu Lab, EPA, Soros - they could all do some science and use the resulting numbers to convince everyone to agree.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-32162324596529876132009-12-11T18:35:18.027+00:002009-12-11T18:35:18.027+00:00Tarquin: There's a stretch of road near me whi...Tarquin: There's a stretch of road near me which is exactly as you describe. With cameras just as you enter the 20mph areas. Toddlers who don't understand the signs must think someone has gone around planting big metal lollipops all along the pavement - there's dozens of them.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-23233381302058700842009-12-11T17:59:04.294+00:002009-12-11T17:59:04.294+00:00"I doubt anyone would notice it if it was red..."I doubt anyone would notice it if it was reduced."<br /><br />But they'd still get very hot under the collar about the idea of reducing it, as this thread demonstrates.<br /><br />However, abolition of priority is the way to go.bayardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-50406413537017695792009-12-11T17:15:25.182+00:002009-12-11T17:15:25.182+00:00Kerching!Kerching!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17969767902477233674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-37136426083619426462009-12-11T14:26:05.450+00:002009-12-11T14:26:05.450+00:00Oh don't Dick, you'll put ideas into their...Oh don't Dick, you'll put ideas into their heads.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-75748405530815006722009-12-11T13:54:25.040+00:002009-12-11T13:54:25.040+00:00Imagine having 80kph limits in built up areas and ...Imagine having 80kph limits in built up areas and 140kph on open roads.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-6258842100506999812009-12-11T13:29:14.042+00:002009-12-11T13:29:14.042+00:00You know it's odd, but the average speed in ce...You know it's odd, but the average speed in central London is 9.3mph not 20mph. It's actually less than it was in Victorian times.<br />I doubt anyone would notice it if it was reduced.Quiet_Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-29497232681058841572009-12-11T13:18:10.765+00:002009-12-11T13:18:10.765+00:00Hang on, the study is by the London School of Hygi...<i>Hang on, the study is by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Have they solved malaria, elephantiasis and dengue fever then? Have they got drinking water sorted out for everyone in the 3rd World who didn't have it till now? No? So what the fuck are they doing branching out into road safety and who signed the fucking cheques?</i><br /><br />They've been at it for donkey's years. Sir Richard Doll, the late antismoking arch-guru, was <a href="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7511/295/DC1" rel="nofollow">a graduate of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.</a>Frank Davishttp://frank-davis.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-86389806637376389662009-12-11T12:56:46.167+00:002009-12-11T12:56:46.167+00:00yay more speedbumps! That's the only way to ge...yay more speedbumps! That's the only way to get people to maintain the annoyingly slow 20mph if the road is suitable to drive at 30, more signs, more road markings etc<br /><br />There's a road nearby me that enters a town from the back - it's goes 100m at 30, another 100m at 20, then 30, 20, 30, 20, 30, 20<br /><br />No exaggerating - I counted (what else could I do at such a speed), it drops four times in the course of one straight, urban roadTarquinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06499205669112240463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-92000013312078173602009-12-11T12:33:55.190+00:002009-12-11T12:33:55.190+00:00As a non driver could I suggest
driving in reverse...As a non driver could I suggest<br />driving in reverse gear only in<br />residential areas.<br />As for the lonely hearts fans using mobile phones in moving<br />vehicles,scourging,7 days solitary<br />confinement and 28 days with access<br />to blogsites only<br />Car ownersip to be restricted to<br />those working in export driven <br />productive industry.<br />Oh, and while we are at it, female<br />dog owning smokers between 9 and<br />69 to be sterelised,free<br /><br />Gauleiter<br />Graf Willy Von Rauchverbotanhanger<br />Gross BritanienAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-39598310387912954032009-12-11T12:22:33.899+00:002009-12-11T12:22:33.899+00:00Hang on, the study is by the London School of Hygi...Hang on, the study is by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Have they solved malaria, elephantiasis and dengue fever then? Have they got drinking water sorted out for everyone in the 3rd World who didn't have it till now? No? So what the fuck are they doing branching out into road safety and who signed the fucking cheques? I'm not saying they can't or shouldn't, but I'm curious. The TRL in Crowthorne should be the ones studying this kind of thing and while I've little time for demarcation I wonder why these mozzie squashers are talking about this instead of the government's supposed experts. Is it possible that the TRL have either failed to research this or that they have and came to a different conclusion? Or might the TRL have said the same already and weren't terribly convincing, hence the need for a 'yeah, me too' report?<br /><br />Personally I'm all for the idea. All those drivers staring down fearfully at their speedos, all those pedestrians who step into the road engrossed in their phone conversations, newspapers or iPods..... what could possibly go wrong?Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.com