February 8th, 2006
commute
Finally crawled off my winter lardy backside and started commuting again. It’s less than 10 minutes each way so I treat it as sprint training.
Despite having plenty of cycle lanes along the way I’ve already encountered some car drivers who seem to think that they’ll get to work faster by driving in them and holding me up.
Meanwhile Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety are parked 200 yards up the road blocking the cycle lane pointing their cameras at a junction that, as revealed by their own published statistics (select the collisions layer on MARIO), has had few accidents in the last five years. One can only reasonably conclude that their positioning is more to do with revenue generation than road safety.
The Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety website is remarkably free of statistics just published which reveal that since the introduction of speed cameras in the County the number of deaths on the roads has not dropped. And in some areas (Blackpool) there are actually increased accident occurences around the cameras. I’ve aleady been nearly taken out by an old fool concentrating on their speed instead of other road users when they spotted a talivan.
Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety could improve their standing in my regard if they started catching and educating those who commit careless or dangerous driving instead of spending all their time concentrating on earning revenue targetting only speeding motorists.
Meanwhile there’s been yet another three accidents in the space of a month on a stretch of road used by many cycle commuters travelling to BAE Systems Warton plant. Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety are denying that they need to move their current cameras, positioned on long straight roads with few accidents - so few that they fail to meet the criteria they themselves lay down - to this notoriously accident-prone site.
One can only conclude that the current cameras are good revenue earners and slowing down speeding motorists to make the roads safer for cycle commuters is not actually very high on the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety agenda at all.
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April 18th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Hi Nick
Im currently writing an article about this with the LEP! Hope I can use your link.
Saw you at PETTs this eve, well, i thought it was you but wasnt sure then saw your name on the results but.
S
April 19th, 2006 at 7:42 am
Yeah, I was at PETTs last night. There’ ll be more about it later.
Feel free to use the link.
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