Nuxx:6a3b3bfa-e59f-4440-a799-5f086b22e6cb@b1g2000vbc.googlegroups.com

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!b1g2000vbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <6a3b3bfa-e59f-4440-a799-5f086b22e6cb@b1g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Lighting Up Time Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 11:02:56 -0700 (PDT) References:  <77a4m7F1h1e7jU1@mid.individual.net> Lines: 20 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.145.66.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242583376 24751 127.0.0.1 (17 May 2009 18:02:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 18:02:56 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b1g2000vbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.145.66.20; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 1878 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:702217

On May 17, 10:45=A0am, "Graculus"  wrote: > "Keith T"  wrote in message > > news:O9ednWpI4ejNRpLXnZ2dnUVZ8judnZ2d@bt.com... > > > is there any practical use for =A0those signs that light up to show '30= ' > ... > > Many drivers appear to think there are cameras as part of the sign (nah= ) > > While they aren't cameras, many do log the speed of each vehicle passing. > This can be used to see if more vigorous means of slowing traffic are > needed.

...or rather, if the speed limit is inappropriately low.

Drivers doing the 85th percentile speed are the safest, whether the car-haters like it or not.