Comments on: North Wales Police Hide Speed Camera in Horse Trailer

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:53:35 +0000

They do the camera in a garage can here in Lethbridge.

By: GS650G

GS650G — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:56:28 +0000

Budding business in fake license plates over there.

By: quasimondo

quasimondo — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:45:05 +0000

But you don’t necessarily have to drive a car in Britain. At least, it is not quite as essential as in the US.

Correction: You don’t necessarily have to drive a car in London.

By: alexdykes

alexdykes — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:35:42 +0000

This is the perplexing thing about the UK. There are tons of speed cameras, but everyone drives FAST, except until they see a camera, then they just jam on their brakes until they have passed it. That said, except for the M ways, the speed limits are quite high. 60 MPH on narrow country roads with zero visibility, hedgerows on both sides, oncoming traffic and the whole setup is about 1.5 standard American lanes? Driving there is a blast. Just make sure you are driving something narrow.

By: sitting@home

sitting@home — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:09:55 +0000

I thought speed cameras had to be visible to be legal to at least give the impression they are there for public safety ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/coventry_warwickshire/3707678.stm

By: Matthew Danda

Matthew Danda — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:00:45 +0000

But you don’t necessarily have to drive a car in Britain. At least, it is not quite as essential as in the US.

If American traffic enforcement got that aggressive, the economy would collapse because half the bread-winners would lose their licenses and be stuck at home.

By: Jerome10

Jerome10 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:32:53 +0000

Britain sounds like it sucks. All these taxes? Now they sneakin speed cameras around?

Blech.