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NEARLY RIGHT IS ALWAYS WRONG – A MISLEADING STATEMENT FROM THE AA

“With five people per day killed on our roads it is crucial that excessive speeding is controlled. So, whilst cameras and speed awareness courses have a role to play, we still need ‘cops in cars’ to target the drink and drug drivers and other forms of careless and dangerous driving. We believe cameras are most effective when visible and targeted at crash hotspots rather than placed in places that might generate more tickets such as a motorway slip roads.”Edmund King, AA President

ANALYSIS

With five people per day killed on our roads it is crucial that excessive speeding is controlled.  WRONG!

So, whilst cameras and speed awareness courses have a role to play,… WRONG!

….we still need ‘cops in cars’ to target the drink and drug drivers and other forms of careless and dangerous driving. RIGHT!

We believe cameras are most effective when visible and targeted at crash hotspots… WRONG!

 rather than placed in places that might generate more tickets such as a motorway slip road.” WRONG THING RIGHTER!

CORRECT

“With five people per day killed on our roads it is crucial that  we get ‘cops in cars’ to target the drink and drug drivers and other forms of careless and dangerous driving. The cops can also detect and give advice on excessive and inappropriate speeding but camera enforcement has no role play and speed awareness courses are irrelevant because the responsibility to choose the correct speed to minimise risk of accidents in every situation belongs to the driver . If anything, we need to train drivers better to enable them to do this.”

How To Set Speed Limits Rationally Using The 85th Percentile Protocol

A paper by this name can be found under the Resources Tab. It explains how speed limits should be set rationally and objectively by qualified road engineers whose profession prevents them from being captured by woke idealogy.

If a politician chooses to over-rule the objective recommendations of an engineer they must argue their reasons publically case by case and stand the consequences if they get it wrong.

Let’s Set Speed Limits Ideologically Not Rationally – Go Figure!

The most egregious example of irrational speed limit setting is the blanket mandate for 20mph limits throughout Wales and in more and more cities, towns and villages elsewhere, with no end to this lunacy in sight.

The case for preventing the unreasonable reduction of UK speed limits to 20mph can be found here in this petition. https://chng.it/Hw4fnrrpvQ

From a Mind Driving perspective, otherwise safe drivers are now forced to drive with their eyes glued to their speedometers for fear of amassing fines and penalty points on their driving licence when the Risk Model requires them to give full attention to the road around them in order to anticipate Surprises.

Other drivers in 20mph zones distract them by ‘tailgating’ and reckless and impatient overtaking occurs the moment the 20mph stretch ends. Frustration and road rage is common and even pedestrians complain that there are fewer gaps in the traffic in which to cross the road.

One of the most frustrating situations is the application of unreasonably low speed limits at all times of the day and night. Drivers can find themselves having to travel in this manner along clear roads with plenty of Space in front of them and zero risk of Surprises.

This again is naked control and catching people exceeding the speed limit in these circumstances could be considered a form of entrapment.

By crying wolf and making 20mph ubiquitous, the impact of sensible measures to encourage 20mph outside schools at certain times of day, such as the one pictured, is destroyed.

The ’20’s Plenty’ initiative must surely rank on a par with removing the hard shoulder from motorways in terms of its manifest stupidity, but that doesnt worrry authoritarians who promote it because safety is not their highest priority.

Conclusion: The Government Is The Real Threat To Road Safety!

Truly effective road safety can only be achieved by the restoration of the so-called ‘Three Es’ that is Engineering, Education and Enforcement. (See Resources Tab)

In keeping with the tradition of ‘Policing By Consent’, enforcement was always considered to be last resort. Now, regrettably, with the advent of camera technology it has lazily become the first resort. This means that lip service is frequently paid to the preventative Engineering and Education aspects and drivers have been alienated.

As previously stated, tried and tested engineering principles for speed limit setting have all but been abandoned. This makes speed enforcement all the more egregious when the limits are set without reference to the 85th Percentile Principle. (See Resources Tab – How To Set Speed Limits Rationally). Politicians following globalist agendas should stay out of speed limit setting and leave it to properly qualified road engineers.

All three Es can be positively impacted by police road road traffic officers which is what makes them an indispensible and versatile resource, yet the Blair government did dispense with their services in the naive belief that cameras could take their place. Then the downward trend in crashes flatlined!

We Have Met The Enemy And It Is Us! (Pogo)”

Lazy, poundshop, technocratic policing is a reflection of misguided national spending priorities. These have enabled successive governments to fund wars and other vanity projects that nobody voted for at the expense of essential public services that people rely on such a proper roads policing.

And so in our liberal democracy, decent, otherwise law-abiding citizens are punished, scapegoated, villifield and gaslit by an increasingly distant and authoritarian establishment for simply being human. Menwhile the State walks away from its responisbilities for helping to keep people safe.

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