Here's a useful idea. Throw away all the speed cameras (and lose all the income) and put in speed controlled traffic lights in accident areas of towns.
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They've had these in Spain ever since I drove there - ie at least 20 years.
Great idea from every point of view ...
... except revenue collection.
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... except revenue collection.
You've hit the nail on the head. Something that works at reducing speed but doesn't raise any revenue, that'll never catch on....... ;-)
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so the queue sat behind the speeding driver who has made them all wait at the lights will be sharpening their knives and polishing their knuckle dusters for a gang road rage attack then
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Unless the lights are controlled by SPECS type cameras, surely it would just be case of slow down for the "sensor" and then increase again, similar to what currently happens with Gatsos?
Also would need a red light camera on the lights otherwise folk would just ignore it as well!
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If it wasnt about revenue they would drop the fine and raise the points.
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Didn't they have these in Slough donkey's years ago?
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I seem to remember Slough having a series of traffic signals linked so that if you stuck to the speed limit you would get a green signal on all of them, but going over would mean the next set were still on red when you got there.
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Yes - In the late 60s early 70s the A4 west of slough town centre to the M4 J7 had a longish (4 miles or so) section with lights every 5/600 yards all linked to allow continuous progress at a steady 30. It worked very well originally but the system fell apart with increased traffic volumes meaning that the queue of standing traffic at a red light prevented approaching cars maintaining a steady speed.
as a 17yo in 1975 I and my friends liked them as we could count on a long uninterrupted series of traffic light grand prix and in the sort of cars us teenagers could afford there we actually never got near the speed limits anyway.
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The traffic light system seems to work well in Spain and now parts of Portugal, but only - it appears - at the entrance to towns and villages, ensuring traffic slows approaching built-up areas. I'm not sure it would be practical in other locations.
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Mike - I aggree that system works well, I have also seen it in the centre of small villages. As said above, we wont see it, it isnt a cash generator.
Edited by Old Navy on 03/11/2007 at 12:30
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We have them in Nottingham, people just go faster to beat them or go through them, myself included. People are sick of this government and it's high-tech weapons.
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There are two problems I have found with these in Spain & Portugal.
The first is that you approach the lights under the speed limit, but the car behind you doesn't, and the lights change before you get there.
The second is that a fair number of the locals just drive through the red lights, so unless you put a red light camera on them...
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