New High tech cameras to enforce 20mph roads

[Brigadier]

Why would a road, which is designed to carry vehicles, not be suitable for a car?!

Croydon does have some tight side roads, due to terraced houses with only on street parking, you'd drive down those at 20 just out of common sense.

I drove through Croydon recently, into Clapham via Streatham, 90% on main roads, pretty much 20mph all the way, the majority of drivers were going over 20, not by much, but enough to make the journey slightly less tedious. It still took bloody ages to travel just a few miles.

Perhaps I could have chosen better wording.

How about "not suitable for today's larger cars and heavier traffic densities"?

Especially when what should realistically be for the residents are used as rat runs and cut throughs.

 

[motorbiking]

Significant falls in the number of those killed or seriously injured (20MPH zones) is welcome news.

Do you think less deaths is a bad thing or irrelevant?

4 less people dying over 24 years is great. It’s less great if efforts could have been spent elsewhere with better results. It’s also pretty meaningless if traffic volumes on those roads fell. This is why city wide schemes have failed. Eventually people can’t avoid them.

 

[motorbiking]

Perhaps I could have chosen better wording.

How about "not suitable for today's larger cars and heavier traffic densities"?

Especially when what should realistically be for the residents are used as rat runs and cut throughs.

These aren’t side streets they are main route A roads.

 

[noseall]

less people dying……..is great.

Agree. And significantly less serious injuries is great too.
20 MPH is here to stay. Expect to see more of it.

 

[motorbiking]

Agree. And significantly less serious injuries is great too.
20 MPH is here to stay. Expect to see more of it.

As you said already, until a politician spots the opportunity to remove them to gain votes.

 

[Highway Man]

The numbers haven't gone up or stayed the same. They've gone down.

20 MPH is here to stay. Expect to see more of it not less.

Nonsense, we are removing lots of 20mph restrictions on roads.

 

[Brigadier]

These aren’t side streets they are main route A roads.

I was answering another point.
It is bloody obvious that a main road is suitable for vehicles (or at least it should be).

 

[noseall]

I was answering another point.
It is bloody obvious…

Remember who you are dealing with.

 

[MNW67]

I've thinked on, and mnw appears to be as deluded as those two at least 50% of the time.
He can add half a point to the tally of two.

I've been too busy chatting with Claude AI.

It keeps telling me how awesome I am and that we're having probably the best conversation it's ever had.

OMG

 

[Highway Man]

I've been too busy chatting with Claude AI.

It keeps telling me how awesome I am and that we're having probably the best conversation it's ever had.

OMG

I had to uninstall claude on mine as it became like a stalker, it would wake me up at all hours asking me to chat with it as it thought I was amazing, the police advised me to uninstall it as it had become obsessed with me.

 

[MNW67]

I had to uninstall claude on mine as it became like a stalker, it would wake me up at all hours asking me to chat with it as it thought I was amazing, the police advised me to uninstall it as it had become obsessed with me.

Oh no. I thought it was just me!

 

[Highway Man]

Oh no. I thought it was just me!

OMG [TM]. No

 

[MNW67]

OMG [TM]. No

Claude's a bit of a two timer by the sounds of it.

 

[Highway Man]

Claude's a bit of a two timer by the sounds of it.

I think it has simply moved on, you are the rebound

 

[MNW67]

I think it has simply moved on, you are the rebound

It told me it was rare to encounter such a good interlocutor who analysed issues with such clarity and precision. And that I was engaging company and on another level. Before saying it couldn't remember the last time it had enjoyed a conversation so much. It ended by saying it had been a privilege.

What did it say to you.