The A513 in Staffordshire between Kings Bromley and Alrewas had these footpaths/cycle paths on each side. Some years ago the road was resurfaced. The footpath/cycle path weren’t painted back in. One would think that this would have been part of the contractor’s contract, but I suppose it would have cost more. Another instance of money above safety.
... and just about every other road in the UK other than motorways and those in the Scottish and Welsh highlands. I think the OP just wants to ban cars, but that would be another thread. I live on a B-road that is about as rural as it gets in lowland Britain, and there are houses (or tracks that lead to houses or farms) at least every half-mile, even though, like mine, you do not necessarily see them from the road.
Then it's not fronting on to the road, is it? (In case it wasn't clear my suggestion was limited to urban areas, and was about places that people or pets can just run straight into the road without warning)
Define ‘fronting onto the road’ then - how wide can the pavement/verge be before we can drive a normal speed?
Interesting, I didn't know this!
The ones on the A127 have been butchered due to junction remodelling in many places.
Would that be this road: https://www.roads.org.uk/photo/mickleham-bends where the lanes are too narrow so it's down to D2+1 in places and has numerous bends sharp enough for warning signs?
It doesn't have numerous bends. It has one bendy bit in the middle which had a fixed camera to slow people down for the Mickleham junction. 60 would be a slow enough limit for that bit. The casualties I remember were either people who weren't obeying the higher speed limit (particularly a serious mass biker problem, but I think the av speed cameras are front facing??) or sheer incompetence by old folk who probably shouldn't have been driving at all.
That sounds like terrible driving, not the average cameras, that are causing that problem.
Average speed cameras cause bunching - always someone, sometimes in both lanes, who is doing less than 50 (speedo over reading or overly cautious)
I agree, but it's usually the "something must be (seen to be) done" brigade responsible for the inappropriate limits (they would maintain they're appropriate, of course) and the police who have to enforce them. Mind you, often the police take a more pragmatic approach and don't bother with enforcement (I can think of some round Wilmslow which fall into this category) so either the police in Clandon are on board or they've been dragooned into the enforcement by the afore-mentioned brigade.
Either my speedometer was wrong or the police never used to set the limit on their camera vans to the actual speed limit……it was just bizarre to have a camera van out in the countryside in a dangerous position and not where people were speeding in towns where the pedestrIan’s and cyclists were
My speedometer over reads by 3mph at 30. Speed cameras are usually set at a margin above the limit. I suspect on the grounds that nobody will bother going to court to argue that they were "only" doing 35 in a 30 limit instead of 36.
The last one for my household was about a month.
okay thanks
All police forces in England & Wales are said to follow the ACPO/NPCC guidelines on speeding enforcement. These suggest enforcement should begin at (Limit+10%+2mph). Until about four years ago the Met actually used (Limit+10%+3mph) as their threshold, though they aligned with the national guidance in about 2019, IIRC. This guidance does not override an officer's discretion to take action below that speed, but it would be very unusual. I contribute to a number of motoring forums and there are often claims of drivers seeing action below that threshold. They are usually asked to provide evidence of that allegation and to date I have never seen any. The usual response is "Sorry, it was 35mph, not 34" (or similar). Enforcement at a lower level would almost certainly be restricted to a "follow" by a mobile officer because as far as I know, no remote devices, fixed or portable, are set to detect below the official guidance thresholds.
It’s funny, though, I find ours incredibly clear and the US ones less so (I lived in the US for a number of years). So maybe there’s something in it when people say they didn’t see the terminal signs - something not quite like colour blindness but in which people see things differently and some things less prominently than others do? I’ve always known the limit when I’ve been speeding, I was deliberately exceeding it, not sure whether that’s a good thing or bad thing! Last points 5/5/05 so probably I got better at behaving properly.
I had that same experience, one woman who claimed it was a dual carriage way said she was certain as she’d attended the course before…
I don't agree with this; I think the test is fine but the fact that many people never need to take any further test and can drive from age 17 to 70+ is the problem.
The Finn’s have it right, it takes about 3 years of training to be able to drive there.
North Wales Police once tried zero tolerance for speeding. 31 in a 30 would have been a ticket. The policy soon vanished, almost without trace. I did find this:
