Speed camera trial success means national roll out likely

hilarious people thinking this is a tax on drivers. just stick to the limit and pay no tax.

It’s only an idiot tax. luckily the country is rich in them so we should do just fine.

A good example are all the comments on here where the writer doesn’t know how a Caps Lock key works.

modern cars can detect the local speed limit. It should not be very difficult to set the cars maximum speed to the local speed limit. this would be far less expensive than speed cameras and would ensure that drivers never break the limit by mistake.

Someone needs to treat these bloody cameras like they are in London with the ULEZ cameras !!

Why cant they put a device in your car which when you come into say a 20mph or 30 mph won’t allow the car van truck whatever M/C etc to exceed the said speed limit they could do this at manufacture the a simple device at the side of the road that sends out a signal I.e.20mph 30 mph 70mph on motorway ect job done no need for expensive camera systems and we would all have money in our banks to be able to enjoy life, also what, why is there such a difference in road tax on cars what do they do with the money these days are they using the money rhey Rob to improve the environment or is it just another way to Rob the motorist

This country serously needs a uprising they get away with this crap time time again it’s about time we listened to John POWER TO THE PEOPLE

we’re going to have a lot of fun this month, September, because there’s going to be a 20mph limit introduced on the roads. TWENTY MILES AN HOUR in built up areas. Have fun folks.

after more than 70 years I’m f***ing sick of this rip off country

The renark made on older cars is not quiet right they are normally looked after better than most and nearly all have there engines reconditioned. And properly tune although you dont have to .i have my engines tested for emissions and they read better than a new car . The reason you only need an mot
After 3 years .they know that .all new cars will fail the test. All engines have a running period . All modern car engines are made from a more tuffer materials today .ence they can go 300.000 miles or more . Hence the 3 year period for running in .
The cars from 50 60 years ago didnt have the metal
Technology of today . Running in period was around
1000 miles. And the of the engine was 60 to 70 .000 miles . And needed to be reconditioned.my latest
Count of vehicles is 4 . And all the engines are spot on. Gpw that stands for a general purpose willeys.
A ford jeep 1942 . A GMC 6×6 troop carrier. 1942
Commonly known as a JIMMY. A NISSAN 4X4 .
AS SMALL TRANSIT VAN CONNECT 66 PLT .
COMPARED to the other vehicles. Siltch in the fun department .

People have been getting away with speeding since the roads were built. BUT NOW The unlucky few are paying the heavy price, because the people who come up with these stupid systems know that neither you or I can do anything to change this gradual errosion of what we thought was freedom!
Oh how misguided we are!
Forget about UK plc… Its UK… Take it easy.

Another scam to extract more money from the motorists.
We are being watched by cctv in places we don’t even know, now we have cameras that see into our cars, it’s beyond the joke, all hidden behind the slogan speed kills!
Like Green issues our police and government don’t give a damn about them it’s all a smoke screen to get money from an easy source. The motorist is now being persecuted and it’s got to stop.
I waited almost a month when I had something stolen from my house yet they always have the rescource to deploy a pcso on a nicely selected piece of road to bring in the cash. They are currently setting people up on a dual carriageway that has a few tiny 40 mph signs after coming off a unrestricted stretch, all a scam.

The motorist is just seen as a cash cow. Safety has nothing to do with it just like the Ulez roll out has nothing to do with clean air. When will people start saying “no”.

More backwards measures, more surveillance, more fines. And yet people on here are cheering it all on.
How about letting a little bit of common sense and judgement come into it?
With modern cars, ABS brakes and crumple zones, if I’m travelling down a sparse motorway in dry conditions, what sense does 70mph make? Nobody should be prosecuted for not sticking to an arbitrary, static speed. It’s an archaic law from a world which doesn’t exist anymore. Germany seems to be getting on just fine with their no-speed-limit autobahns. Scrap the national speed limit, tear down the speed cameras. The government should let people live their lives.

I’m glad these cameras are being erected, hopefully it will stop speeding motorists.

how many unlicenced or drunk drivers were caught by this successful trial?

success??? yeh thanks thousands of people will soon be out of work losing homes…..

And the state of our roads potholes entire surfaces upon mile upon mile just in total neglect…the almost complete lack of signage on some roads actually telling driver the bloody speed limit and what signs there are overgrown with foliage trees etc etc DOES THAT CAUSE DANGER DOES THAT CAUSE ACCIDENTS ? We have had the technology for years now to install GPS speed limiter systems in vehicles this would reduce speeding by 99.9 % overnight but our friends the police who bleat on about road safety know it would destroy there cash racket on the cameras .

Speed is a “contributory factor” is usually the term used. Often the real reason is careless driving, such as people tailgating, cutting in across lanes at the last minute, not indicating before manoeuvring, pulling out without looking properly, weaving in and out of traffic erratically etc etc and of course the last couple of decades distracted driving from mobile phone use. The cameras do not stop any of this, and neither does fining people doing 40 in a 30. By all means fine people doing 70 in a 30 that’s just bonkers, but there needs to be more enforcement on careless and irresponsible driving which if anything seems to have got worse. Retest people every say 10 years too to make sure they are up to standard,

how much of these drakonian measures are the people going to take before they fight back.its nothing to do about safety.and everything to do with a revenue stream.

let’s be honest hear the UK govments needs money why because we are broke due to both party’s failures for 30 years we spent money we did not have we bailed the banks out to the tune of a trillion pounds then cov 19 money wasting to the tune of half a trillion then on top of that U have the price cap costs you think that 400 pounds was free think again we will all pay the cost of the above for years to come that won’t tell U that nor will that dare put real taxes up nope that will find was to fine you or pay for things that were once free like green bin collections the ulez zones you think that that are doing it for our heath no that use it as a smoke screen so U buy in to the idea when this could have been done 20 years ago why are they doing it we fuel duty is falling the govment needs cash so this is the new way that will charge you it’s a daily tax note how it’s only aimed at poor people who are more likely to own a older car how come 40 year old cars which are far more pouleting than any car that’s 10 or 15 years old yet that don’t pay road tax nor the charges and again why is it that electric cars don’t pay road tax yet that do more road damage due to the weight of the car so tell me how that makes sense and is fair and also parking is next on the cards you will pay more if ur car is older one and pay per mile is coming to replace road tax funny thing is people who have electric vehicles think they are immune and safe well you are for now but when all the old cars are off the roads and all the charges that they currently pay run out the government will then introduce charges for electric vehicles and all the other means of raging money as much it runs out of options with regards to all the polluting vehicles it will tears attention to more modern vehicles so that being ten-year-old vehicles is we five your vehicles and it’s because vehicles emotionists are easy and in large numbers and the government doesn’t know how else today’s money other than raising taxes themselves which no government will lightly as they know it will make them get voted out of power at the next election so the government doesn’t know what to do other than introduce ways to find and charge people for using that cars as it knows 32 million people use vehicles in the UK so therefore the government sees this as an easy way to raise money and so do local authorities as local authorities can raise money for fines from parking tickets and so on and also charge for local services like green bins and so on you think the green bin charge is the only charge that’s going to happen wrong eventually they will charge you for removing your black fin waste and your recycle bin waste basically any services that are now free you will have to pay for in the future this is a four-tail sign of what’s called down the line and unfortunately the time of free things in the UK is now over and any things that we want or need services wise we have to pay high price for in order to use those services whether it’s fair or not sadly it’s the poor or working class that most as people are the eye income won’t feel the charges as much as someone who would on the low income and Amelia there won’t be asked about 60 quid but a working class person will be and feel it more again with the electricity and gas it’s a form of tax and it’s a way of energy companies making money and in turn the government making money because it gains tax and creat off the profits and price the energy companies charge so gone in the days of cheap fuel cheap food cheap anything unfortunately from now on it’s going to cost us a lot more just have the basics from what you used to just two years ago covid and the war in Ukraine have now sparked a new area of high prices and higher costs and property earrings by companies everything is getting smaller but costing more everything is more shitly made and doesn’t last as long yet you pay twice as much unfortunately this is the way it goes you’re working for a minimum wage over 11 pounds an hour in the UK and you’re expected to cover the costs of everything that has traveled and less than 12 months so unfortunately we have to try that in this new way which a lot of people are struggling to do as they don’t know how to manage their finances nor manage their life properly without getting struggling like we all the metal class and riches won’t be bothered by this recipe the poor and working class who will feel this more than anything else but that is what it is and you have to look at how things are and what you can do to make things better for yourself sorry mistakes it is a speak to text application that’s I am using us I’m not really good at writing nor spelling and it does produce spelling mistakes contact time well this is my point I have made so yes that’s it.