Gargoyle wrote:
I'm sure one means 'safety cameras' - smile for the birdie! Perhaps we should relocate Swindons camera to Wales, they have 'safety cameras' everywhere... horseboxes, builders transit vans.

BWB wrote:

Gargoyle wrote: I'm sure one means 'safety cameras' - smile for the birdie! Perhaps we should relocate Swindons camera to Wales, they have 'safety cameras' everywhere... horseboxes, builders transit vans.

Gargoyle. Be careful what you say. Webb Team have already censored the comments on yesterdays forum: PUPILS GO TO COURT. Like yours,they were too truthful and get reported.Proves the truth hurts.

Oxford Road, between The Greenbridge Roundabout and the White Hart

Taxpower wrote:
funny that these cameras are never in places where car are actually speeding

Oxford Road, between The Greenbridge Roundabout and the White Hart


ooooh my Dad got caught by that one bad bad man that he is

Al Smith wrote:

Taxpower wrote: funny that these cameras are never in places where car are actually speeding

Well the Queens Drive one is (but it isn't working) as drivers saw the road as an extension of the M4. I find it unlikely that they'd be put where people don't speed as they wouldn't generate any revenue. Oh if people aren't (note the present tense) speeding where they are located that means they're doing their job. Did you mean "were actually speeding"?

john c wrote:
I have no objection to speed / safety camera's or the penalties drivers face if they are caught breaking the law but what does annoy me is the police’s over reliance on them for law enforcement. Police traffic cars on patrol are a greater deterrent to speeding motorists and they can also spot vehicles with lights out or being driven erratically, if these traffic cars are fitted with the correct technology they can also catch untaxed / uninsured vehicles. That I my opinion would make the roads safer for all.

Taxpower wrote
you will find that police cars are no example of safe & correct driving. The less of them on roads the safer we are from careless police drivers

john c wrote:

Taxpower wrote you will find that police cars are no example of safe & correct driving. The less of them on roads the safer we are from careless police drivers

As with all sections of society I am sure their have been occasions when some police officers drivers standards of driving may have been poor but do not tar them all with the same brush. As for your suggestion that we would be safer without patrol cars on the road I would disagree and ask that you reconsider this controversial stance.

john c wrote:

Taxpower wrote you will find that police cars are no example of safe & correct driving. The less of them on roads the safer we are from careless police drivers

As with all sections of society I am sure their have been occasions when some police officers drivers standards of driving may have been poor but do not tar them all with the same brush. As for your suggestion that we would be safer without patrol cars on the road I would disagree and ask that you reconsider this controversial stance.

LordBelacqua wrote:

john c wrote:

Taxpower wrote you will find that police cars are no example of safe & correct driving. The less of them on roads the safer we are from careless police drivers

As with all sections of society I am sure their have been occasions when some police officers drivers standards of driving may have been poor but do not tar them all with the same brush. As for your suggestion that we would be safer without patrol cars on the road I would disagree and ask that you reconsider this controversial stance.

Bearing in mind you're asking the person who believes the air ambulance should be scrapped because it interferes with his sleep, and believes that a document that classifies said ambulance as an exception will help him - I shouldn't think you'll be successful.

Well the Queens Drive one is (but it isn't working)

Tony Hillier wrote:

Oxford Road, between The Greenbridge Roundabout and the White Hart ooooh my Dad got caught by that one bad bad man that he is

I tried in vane to get the statistics from those powers that "we-let-be" about how many fines there have been for this stretch.. I was quoted Data Protection etc such that the statistics could not be revealed. So we now live in a society that keeps private, information that might show we the public are being unnecessarily ripped off. If the sineage was much clearer, especially as one enters Swindon off the Toys r Us roundabout ie extra big 30's on the tricky bit where drivers have just negotiated the busy roundabout (and perhaps missed the two Big 30s as they preferred to keep their eyes on dashing roundabout traffic.. None of us wants points on license nor £60 fines. If a sign showed how many people had been fined over last 3 months it would scare us all into crawling into Swindon...as of course we all shoul d be..or not..safe yes, crawl, fleeced, No Tony Poemless today

Oxford wrote:
I must say that it is wrong to say that you can never trust a policeman or policewoman, as they are the most honest and up-right people in our society and are and never will be able to make mistakes or errors. I do apologise if through any comments I made infer this.

Meldrews Dad wrote:
What about getting rid of the mobile vans as well. I get fed up with seeing the snooper van parked in a bus layby in Wroughton. Strange how this is the only bus layby that doesn't have double yellow lines. SBC say that it wont cause an obstruction because the bus drivers prefer not to use bus laybys. Bet the story would be different if a motorist parked there - SBC traffic gestapo would be there in seconds.

steve-o wrote:
BWB, do you have to make a post on all the pages, grow up and stop sulking we all have had posts removed. With regard to speed cameras idoubt if i'll sleep tonight, NOT