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Them low life traffic wardens There are two sides to this arguement. On one hand, Britain seems to have a "It's convenient for me to park here, so I will" mentality, which probably goes hand in hand with the... Ongoing harbuttment by the We'll pooe All Over Your Constabulary 5209 On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000, Airy R.Bean So, let me get this right. The day was very cold, there was snow on the ground... Ongoing harbuttment by the We'll pooe All Over Your Constabulary 5210 Because of previous gratuitous harbuttment by the local plods, I felt the need to record in a safe place my version of events BEFORE THE PLODS... Ongoing harbuttment by the We'll pooe All Over Your Constabulary 5211 On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:42:50 +0000, Ian Dalziel A quick google finds sites that seem to back up what I thought : Belgium "When on a roundabout, give way... Where to indicate when leaving motorway 5212 a box has brought this to us : A lot doing it does not make it the right way to do it. I indicate as... Where to indicate when leaving motorway 5213 Perhaps we should ban speeding :) On a motorway, there are no pedestrians about. Actually no, not necessarily. I honestly can't remember if I indicated or not this morning. I'm heading down the M6... Where to indicate when leaving motorway 5214 Lawtears pretended : Why is that? 300yds, a distance I would cover in just a few short seconds at the speed limit. I don't follow your definition of useless. A proper indication allows everyone around you... Where to indicate when leaving motorway 5215 It's a flashing light pbutting information on to people who can already predict what's going... Where to indicate when leaving motorway 5216 Lawtears pretended : I do sometimes trickle along L1 at 60 for miles. Your reading of intentions might... Where to indicate when leaving motorway 5217 Ah, well, no. Often at junctions there are other signs, like bearing left in L1, nose up vehicle in front, suddently pulling into L1 after hogging L2 for 50 miles etc (although, not in... Where to indicate when leaving motorway 5218 Alistair J Murray That isn't always possible when for example you are making a right turn through a central reserve gap... When God made Truck Drivers When God Made Truck Drivers" Author Unknown (modified for UK) When the Lord was creating Truck Drivers, he was into his sixth... main beam & fog lights on motorway 5220 Graculus" wrote in message This seems to be a problem all over the country, but I think that part of the reason is poor driver... main beam & fog lights on motorway 5221 It is probably the case that the majority of people who drive round with their... Indicate to reverse into a driveway Like others, I too have this problem. I live on a fairly quiet road, but normally approach from the direction where the driveway is on the right. If there is... To the numpty changing his tyre on the A77 last night Dear Numpty, Punctures happen, frequently when you least want them, like last night at about 6:00 pm on the southbound... No more speed cameras, says top cop Approved: wibble 5224 On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:28:02 +0000, Bob Johnstone was popularly supposed to have said: In that case... No more speed cameras, says top cop Dan Holdsworth May I clarify: Speed cameras can easily be made invisible to approaching vehicles, although... No more speed cameras, says top cop Approved: wibble 5226 On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:49:09 +0000 (UTC), Brimstone was popularly supposed to have said: How long, though, before it is admitted that not only is the policy largely a failure (mostly because the cameras... Deityofyourchoice help us I was listening to BBC Southern Counties Radio this afternoon (no, that's not why I need help :-). In recent months, they have... Complaint about public transport Sender: Spammers Address Apparently on date Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:20:46 +0000, "T." They tend not to include an element of petrol. Indeed. I'd rather have the hbuttle of sitting in my comfortable seated... Complaint about public transport 5229 Dave Plowman (News) It does to me, since the people who have paid and are paying for those "improvements" are not the ones to benefit from them. If better... Complaint about public transport 5230 Dave Plowman (News) I don't. I don't have to. I don't live there, I don't... Speed Humps "Save Lives". Allegedly. 5231 Adrian pretended : IMHO they serve no real useful pupose as their effect (the cushion type) on different vehicle types varies so much. I can drive my car over them squarely wheels either side... Speed Humps "Save Lives". Allegedly. 5232 Adrian - Tim shot - precise I wonder how much they've reduced the number of crashes? 'baneities' only... Speed Humps "Save Lives". Allegedly. 5233 PeterE It's also residents and their visitors who encounter the discomfort-minor injuries from driving over them all the time, and who have to put up with extra noise, and... Speed Humps "Save Lives". Allegedly. 5234 I care becuase it inconveniences the emergency services. If spped humps meant that a memeber of your familiy dies becuase an ambulance can't get to them in time... Speed Humps "Save Lives". Allegedly. 5235 Absolutely not! You have swallowed the oversimplistic government propaganda (aka "lies"). Accident statistics show that the safest speed at which to travel is the... Speed Humps "Save Lives". Allegedly. 5236 Without speed bumps that could be 50 mph with some in narrow urban roads. And I live... Speed Humps "Save Lives". Allegedly. 5237 True! A better way that would not hold up emergency vehicles would be police on the street. If the limit... Speed Humps "Save Lives". Allegedly. 5238 Indeed, a driver should drive at less than the posted limit if conditions demand it. But we are not talking about conditions here, we are talking about the maximum design speed of the road... Speed Humps "Save Lives". Allegedly. 5239 On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 19:20:44 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)" I used to drive into central Stockport along... Annoyances In no particular order 1. Driving with front fog lights on when there absolutely is no need. 2. Rear fog lights as above. 3. Drivers who fail to give proper indications of... Annoyances! 5241 Hasn't he? Personally, I think he should. In terms of social decency. Ie on city streets (which I hate driving on), I would prefer to take it easy... Annoyances! 5242 which connection? can I'm not sure I see the connection? I'd probably find it a bit spooky. Don't get me wrong - I get the whole travelling at similar... Annoyances! 5243 it, and of fellow I can see how you might think that. But I just find that the roads are becoming more hostile places. I'm not so OTT as you might think. The... Annoyances! 5244 With little else around, perhaps. I'm not sure I've always noticed how exactly I have come to be travelling at more or less the same pace as another driver and have ended up in... Annoyances! 5245 might I think I'd be a little curious about any driver that approached then slowed down to match my speed. I understand... Annoyances! 5246 I must have missed that statement or implication. No, I don't "target" anyone, but occasionally find myself in sync with another driver. Sorry for... Annoyances! 5247 can Why so? Why does their constant pace make it easy? Do you mean from a perspective that... Annoyances! 5248 Never bothered me. Am I the only one? 8. AIM rivet counters. What has that got to do with it? Full beam... Speed camera detectors to banned 5249 Uno Hoo! I don't use a detector personally, but that quote annoyed me when I read the original article. Which of the following statements is not true... Speed camera detectors to banned 5250 Uno Hoo! The second one seems not always to be obeyed (despite claims to the contrary). And even more annoying is that speed cameras... Speed camera detectors to banned 5251 Is it time to trot out all the recorded incidences of badly marked or unmarked limits, or the semi-rural roads that change limits half a dozen... Speed camera detectors to banned 5252 Alistair J Murray explained on 10-03-2005 : Agreed! You drive down the road, perhaps trying to drive at sensible and safe... No valid road tax who's problem They suck, I used to hire car a car maybe a dozen times a year and they would always screw... Cruise Control dangerous 5254 GeoffC That isn't quite true. They do drive aggressively but not like the French. Their rules of engagement are very different to the UK. There is some method in their... Cruise Control dangerous 5255 GeoffC Congested and heavily bibutted towards car drivers. No lane discipline. Signalling is optional. Tailgating is now almost as bad as in... Cruise Control dangerous 5256 Steve Firth An easy claim to make on usenet. Sounds to me as though your main source of information on this subject might be the Daily Mirror, or worse still, accident statistics. For... Cruise Control dangerous N!rmpbcBiyXn8GRV.z60~gpz0J#a0P_LaB.sV 5257 Oh dear, since I've met many people from Usenet in real life who know that I used to work in... Cruise Control dangerous 5258 Steve Firth Still an easy claim to make, FWIW I believe you, still doesn't justify statements such as that below. Anyway, so you transit Belgium several times a year, couple of hours each way, always... Cruise Control dangerous N!rmpbcBiyXn8GRV.z60~gpz0J#a0P_LaB.sV 5259 Were you innoculated with a gramophone needle? FWIW, I don't care. And you see on Usenet it's even simpler to leap to an erroneous conclusion, especially if you don't read... Cruise Control dangerous 5260 Where does it say in my post I've just come back from a week in Belgium? I was comparing the amount of scary incidents that might be witnessed in a typical week there to equate... Cruise Control dangerous 5261 Uno Hoo! I use mine a huge amount on the motorway and also in some 40 , 50 and 60 mph limits where I know there are cameras as it... Cruise Control dangerous 5262 I am well aware that it was my fault that I also didn't then adjust to the fact that there was cruise control and apply the brake to cancel... Cruise Control dangerous 5263 On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:10:59 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone" I sense only two areas of confusion. Either the lorry acquires another 2mph of velocity, or not. Or the lorry does... Cruise Control dangerous 5264 John Laird Conservation of momentum. Kinetic energy will not be conserved provided that the crumple zones work properly since a lot of energy will be absorbed breaking the spot welds... Cruise Control dangerous 5265 On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:14:31 +0000, Martin Brown I buttume you arrived at a collision duration of 0.1s by dividing the crumple... Cruise Control dangerous 5266 On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:52:37 -0000, "Clive George" No, they would have to slip... Cruise Control dangerous 5267 Which straight away should have alerted me to some sort of chicken-up, as it implies a deceleration to the car of 80g, which is a little severe... I've not got time now to... Cruise Control dangerous 5268 somewhere. than you I think you're looking at the lorry & car as an isolated system, in which case you are perfectly correct in your buttertion of conservation of moment between the two... Cruise Control dangerous 5269 I have consistently included the earth, but admit to being unsure of how much momentum could be lost to... Cruise Control dangerous 5270 Nope, there have been numerous incidents of cars running into stationary lorries and the lorry driver not being aware. Even a vehicle with a lesser weight difference such as a van, the driver... northern drivers....the worst 5271 Mark Foster Having driven into Manc-Salford everyday for the last 3 years, that is a given. Manchester rules of the road. A red traffic light... northern drivers....the worst 5272 Could be fun though. Signals only work where both the sender and the recipient know what the signal means... northern drivers....the worst 5273 It happens that Conor formulated : I'm a high yearly mileage driver with many years experience of driving and riding a variety... northern drivers....the worst 5274 Anyone who relies on the say-so of another driver that it is safe to... northern drivers....the worst N!rmpbcBiyXn8GRV.z60~gpz0J#a0P_LaB.sV Indeed, a saw a motorcyclist end by a fool who beckoned her out of a junction. Sadly the fool was only indicating that... A Copper With Bottle N!rmpbcBiyXn8GRV.z60~gpz0J#a0P_LaB.sV I think I had that trick pulled on me in the 1980s. I was driving from Bishop's Stortford to The Peak District and... Subconscious braking VERY LUCKY ESCAPE TONIGHT I saw this post the other day and thought "interesting" and now am thinking - "BLOODY HELL". Tonight, driving home, going down a dual carriageway heading towards the... Subconscious braking Peter, how many rallies have you seen, even on TV? The roads don't change, but the drivers might... Lorries should get motorway priority www.guardian.co.uk-transport-Story-0,2763,1436870,00.html Andrew Clark, transport correspondent Monday March 14, 2005 The Guardian Motorists on short journeys should be prevented from... Lorries should get motorway priority 5280 On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:03:12 -0000, Conor Actually the M63 before it was renamed the... Lorries should get motorway priority 5281 says... Do you actually know where the M62 goes? Clue, it starts 20 miles outside of Hull, goes all the way through the middle... Lorries should get motorway priority 5282 On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:22:37 -0000, Conor I know exactly where the M62 goes, but I was talking about my crossing of the...

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