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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e2c4f50$0$2498$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Blanket 20 mph limit in Cambridge moves closer. Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:58:55 +0100 References: <49042a3f-e6c1-4da7-bab4-0f65b49b804f@a12g2000vbf.googlegroups.com> <98vtd5F36oU6@mid.individual.net>  <5572b6a1-bcc2-4560-b88e-4ba1740748de@v7g2000vbk.googlegroups.com> <8cb53cc6-8349-4a0f-87f9-c91f52fe6f31@m8g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> Lines: 39 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8cb53cc6-8349-4a0f-87f9-c91f52fe6f31@m8g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 241607c8.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=CoKZ`g]8jD1]1IWQWQH1]80g@SS;SF6n7R9OH0:RnEN4WTZeX\QFYY?`:ITG5aA:c7=>AYKV3MMW? X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 2920 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:818514

On 23/07/2011 22:51, Derek C wrote: > On Jul 23, 4:18 pm, Simon Mason  wrote: >> On Jul 23, 2:35 pm, Derek C  wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Jul 23, 1:33 pm, JNugent  wrote: >> >>>> On 23/07/2011 13:21, Simon Mason wrote: >> >>>>> QUOTE: >>>>> "Cllr Sarah Brown, who represents Petersfield ward, proposed a motion >>>>> at Thursday’s full city council meeting to put an end to the current >>>>> “patchwork” of 20mph and 30mph schemes and introduce more consistency. >>>>> And Cllr Brown received strong backing from all members, supporting >>>>> proposals to introduce the same lower speed limit across all >>>>> residential areas, after sharing her experiences of being a cyclist on >>>>> some of the roads in Cambridge." >> >>>>> http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Move-to-make-20mph-speed-limit-c... >> >>>> Is Cambridge a unitary authority? >> >>> They obviously want to extract more speeding fines from motorists for >>> exceeding an unrealistically slow speed limit! >> >> We've had many dozens of 20mph zones since 1996 and I don't think I've >> heard of anyone at all being fined for exceeding the speed limit. >> Certainly, they are never policed for speeding drivers. >> > So what is the point of having them then?

It's a "good" way of giving all drivers the finger, Chapman-style.

"If you're disabled or old then that's no excuse, you still shouldn't be driving, and if you dare to go at 24mph down that wide, deserted road at 3am then we've got an excuse to nab you."