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On Mar 16, 10:02=A0am, Mas...@BP.com wrote: > On 15 Mar, 23:19, Nick L Plate  wrote: > > > On 15 Mar, 16:53, "Simon Mason"  wrote: > > > > They don't go bong on my Sat Nav like all of the camera zones do in t= he UK. > > > Are there any two lane single carriageway roads marked for speed > > enforcement zones? > > > TJ > > On the SatNav? Yes, loads. In fact there is a local trunk road that > had a very big reconstruction project to get rid of a set of traffic > lights which had a 50 mph limit on the approach where drivers had to > slow from 70mph, pass through the traffic light zone at 50mph and then > speed up to 70 again. There had been numerous fatalities there and so > the road was completely revamped to a 70 mph all the way. My SatNav > however warns me that a 50 mph is still in force, although I've not > checked it out since updating the map to the latest '09 version.

Some here would claim that getting rid of those traffic lights was automatically "dangerous" as it meant that traffic speeds increased. Of course, those people are really just closet car-haters who mean "easier for drivers" whenever they say "dangerous". And they hilariously seem to think that it's not *entirely* obvious that that's the case.