No Excuse campaign causes funding gap
I missed this one:
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/9440562.No_Excuse_campaign_causes_funding_gap/
It is truly reassuring to see that Dorset Road Unsafe is
struggling to find people low enough to take money off safe drivers while making
the roads more dangerous – perhaps the human race is not as bad as I thought it
was.
It has to instead pay the remaining few significant amounts
of overtime to stay out there taking the money.
Looking at the stats for the Cooper Dean camera (where
Timothy Rowsell was killed partly due to a mobile camera) you can see how
desperate they are to enforce the most ridiculous limits to keep them all in
work.
The 85th percentile speed (widely acknowledged as
a good indication of what the limit should be) is 65, EVEN WITH a 50 limit (this
indicates the true value is somewhat higher).
75% of speeds are above the limit.
Even after years and years of “speed kills” from DRS and
previously DSCP.
The only thing this proves is that when you make limits far
too low, they will be ignored, EVEN IF they are enforced. Very convenient for
DRS. But anyone who thinks this has got ANYTHING to do with safety seriously
needs a checkup.
And the fact that with the help of Poole Council, they now
have a similar location on the Dorset Way, shows how far they will go. When
everyone has got used to these enforcements, the councils will reduce limits
again, perhaps to 40 or 30.
Anyway, this article is yet more evidence (if we needed it)
that the activities of Dorset Police / Road Unsafe are driven by financial
goals, not safety.
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