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It doesn't have to be villages. I've annoyed a lot of people in my time by staying with the speed limit. Noteworthy are the stone/gravel lorries on the A6 between Disley and Hazel Grove. In Disley it's 30mph, then 40, back to 30 for High Lane, then 40 and back to 30 for Hazel Grove. Sometimes they drive frighteningly close to try to intimidate. Fat chance !
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'Hell Drivers', with Stanley Baker... Thoroughly carp British (of course) fifties film about intimidatory gravel (or something similar) lorries... Also had whatsisname in it, 'I am not a number!' Patrick McGoohan playing the really bad guy I seem to remember... The Lotus 7 in 'The Prisoner' must have made quite a change although it was a decade later.
Frankly though I thought The Prisoner was utter boring carp too, although it is now described as a cult classic. Three out of four 'cult classics' are boring carp.
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'Three out of four 'cult classics' are boring carp.'
Sounds like a new thread to me...
As I am in full anorak mode tonight I can't help remembering that the lorries in 'Hell Drivers' were made by Dodge (long consigned to history in the UK although my friend had one in the 1970s that was a re-badged hell-for-leather 280hp Spanish Barreiros) and Lud, if you venture as far as Portmeirion (same as the china) on the North Wales coast you'll find that the cult of The Prisoner is frighteningly alive and well - there's even a gift shop!
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Mike..still one or two about....
preview.tinyurl.com/39cxbp
wemyss
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I wish there were more people like you.
Traffic goes through our village (30mph limit) at a rate of knots. We have speed cushions, but they're the type that emergency vehicles can negotiate without slowing down. Unfortunately, this means that all other traffic can also negotiate without slowing down - rendering them pretty useless.
The local authority have conducted a survey and declared the speed cushions a roaring success, as they have reduced accidents by 100% and reduced the average speed from 44mph(!) to 34mph(!). Bear in mind it is a 30mph limit!!
Merseyside police don't appear to be interested in carrying out speed checks, even though there are two perfect locations for them to set up at either end of the village....
Pah!
DB
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