Nuxx:Aef45007-f812-435a-a598-0ca9a3f48d8a@k2g2000yql.googlegroups.com

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!k2g2000yql.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: "Camera Not In Use": Why? Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:38:07 -0700 (PDT) Lines: 24 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.154.123.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1240544287 13276 127.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2009 03:38:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k2g2000yql.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.154.123.12; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2533 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:697598

On the M4, some long-running roadworks have just been finished on a stretch near Windsor. While these roadworks were going on, there was the standard anti-motorist 50mph-limit-24/7-whether-there-were-workmen- present-or-not, backed up by SPECS. As the roadworks have finished, the limit has been raised to NSL again. However, the SPECS cameras remain for the time being. And guess what? Each camera has a yellow "CAMERA NOT IN USE" sign at its base.

Now, if cameras are so wonderful, and don't cause any danger, then why is there any need for those signs? Surely there is no harm in drivers thinking that the cameras are still active? Surely this would make things "safer", by forcing drivers to stick to 70mph even when the motorway was completely clear? If cameras don't make things any more dangerous, and the authorities really think that, then what possible reason could they have for putting such signs there (they're not legally required to do so)? Either cameras make things "safer" in all circumstances, or they don't. Which is it?

(Moderators Chapman and Smith: I apologise for breaking the rules by asking difficult questions which make anti-motorist measures look bad. I know it's jolly selfish of me, but I guess I think making the roads safer is more important than giving motorists a hard time.  I know that only a "troll" could possibly have such a ludicrous point of view.)