Bristol area: New easy picking sites for the 'Safety Camera Partnership'.....

[Ripper]

Read 'em and weep, otherwise law-abiding citizens.

"More speed cameras....
This is an article that was in Saturday's Evening Post.

Listed at the bottom are where the new cameras will be placed.

Speed cameras are being set up in 36 accident 'hot spots' in and around Bristol. The Safety Camera Partnership, which was set up to bring down the number of road accidents, has added 43 new detection camera sites across the Avon and Somerset force area, bringing the total to 58.

Fourteen of the new camera sites are within Bristol City Council's boundaries, with nine in North Somerset, eight in South Gloucestershire, five in Bath and North East Somerset, four in Sedgemoor and one each in Taunton Deane, Mendip and South Somerset.

Mobile speed detection cameras are also being used at a further 181 locations, including the 43 new sites, where there is a history of injury or speed-related accidents.

The mobile camera teams will be out in force in their white vans with the Safety Camera Partnership's distinctive 'eye' logo on the side and red and yellow chevrons on the rear.

Project manager Dick Bowen said: "The enforcement of speed limits using camera technology has meant that hundreds of people and their families have avoided the suffering and trauma resulting from a crash.

"We will continue to monitor accident statistics to highlight locations where there appear to be high numbers of injury accidents, so action can be taken to reduce traffic speed and the number of collisions and casualties."

The Safety Camera Partnership in Avon and Somerset was formed by local highways and health authorities, police, the magistrates' courts service, Crown Prosecution Service and Highways Agency, with the aim of reducing road casualties through the enforcement of speed limits and driver education programmes.

But Tony Vickers, of the Association of British Drivers, said increasing the number of cameras will not necessarily decrease the overall number of accidents.

He said: "Schemes like this partnership in Bristol have been created solely to find places to put speed cameras and nowadays there is big business in making them, so finding places to put them is essential.

"Also, they have a high revenue value for the police force - but for the first time in decades the number of road deaths has increased and that's something the Government and the police force aren't too keen to highlight. Ultimately, there's nothing that can compete with having trained officers on the road in patrol cars."

Where the new cameras will be placed

A403 Avonmouth Docks

B4058 Frenchay Park Road

A3029 Avon Bridge

A38 Gloucester Road, Horfield

B3122 St Johns Lane, Bedminster

Bishport Avenue, Hartcliffe

Filton Avenue, Northville

Whitchurch/Hareclive Road, Bishopsworth

Kingsway, off Two Mile Hill, Kingswood

Long Cross, Lawrence Weston

A4174 Hartcliffe Way

A38 Bridgwater Road, Bedminster Down

A4/B4054 Avonmouth Road

B4056 Westbury Road, Westbury Park

New Cheltenham Road, Kingswood

A4018 Catbrain, Cribbs Causeway

B4059 Goose Green Way, Yate

A432 Kendleshire, near Yate

A38 Fernhill to Rudgeway

A420 High Street, Warmley Hill

B4465 Broad Street, Staple Hill

Little Stoke Lane, Little Stoke

B3133 Central Way, Clevedon

A3039 Devonshire Road, Weston-super-Mare

A370 Cleeve Village

A38 Churchill-Langford

B3130 Tickenham

B3124 Walton Road, Clevedon

A370 Beach Road, Weston-super-Mare

A370 Winterstoke Road, Weston-super-Mare

B3440 New Bristol Road, Worle

A4 Lambridge, Bath

A367 Wells Road, Radstock

A367 Green Park Road, Bath

A367 Bear Flat, Bath

A4 Newbridge Road, Bath"

[Jeff]

I use several of those roads quite often :mad: :cry:

[Steve(S14a)]

Bollocks :mad:

[Supraman1]

I swa on pistonheads recently someone had posted saying "Is there any point having a fast car in this country anymore?"

Someone had answered "Yes, but there's no point having numberplates on it"

:D

[Ripper]

But you can drive like a donkey and no-body cares...

[SMiFFAD]

One of them will probably replace the one that got torched on the batheaston bypass :D i dont agree with arson, unless its done to one of these things, then its poetry and deserves a round of applause.

With little encoragement i think the younger generation, say around the age of 13, could be quite easily moulded in to a gang of speed camera "remodelling techniciens". Would give them something to do in the evenings getting them off the streets!

On a similar note has anyone seen jonny english, with the speed camera/missile scene, pure genius and the first time i have ever heard an entire cinema full of people laugh, cheer and clap at the same time :D :notworthy

The fact they now call them "safety" cameras just takes the piss.

[Ripper]

Note the following, too.....

"Also, they have a high revenue value for the police force - but for the first time in decades the number of road deaths has increased and that's something the Government and the police force aren't too keen to highlight".

I bet they're f*cking not!!!!

:mad: :mad: :mad:

[Steve(S14a)]

Notice 99% of all camera sites are on A or B roads.

What about residential backroads where the pedestrians are? Where there is no visibility? Where children jump out from behind cars?

Ahhhh..... I know........ there's not enough money to be made there is there?

:tosser:s

Safety Camera Partnership eh?

:finger: :finger: :finger: :finger: :finger:

[SMiFFAD]

Originally posted by Ripper
Note the following, too.....

"Also, they have a high revenue value for the police force - but for the first time in decades the number of road deaths has increased and that's something the Government and the police force aren't too keen to highlight".

I bet they're f*cking not!!!!

:mad: :mad: :mad:

Reason for this increase: people not seeing the cameras till they are next to em then slamming on the anchors :D instant pileup :D great stuff = higher insurance premiums etc etc etc.......

in short hate this contry :mad:

[Deacon]

i love my birth country i really do but THIS TAKES THE PISS

bloody hate somethings in the country soon as i have my trade i am fecking off somewhere elce

had enough of tony and his friends :mad:

if they get in again i am off

[Pete C]

Originally posted by smiffad
Reason for this increase: people not seeing the cameras till they are next to em then slamming on the anchors :D instant pileup

Totally agree, Adam.

I know I, for one, if I do not know the road and where the cameras are, will concentrate more on making sure I spot them than watching the road, it also means I speed up and slow down erratically (when I can see it's clear/I'm not sure). That must be dangerous, too.

And yeah, the torching of the camera on the Batheaston bypass was comedy, I've been wanting that one to go for ages :D :D

[SMiFFAD]

I was actually reeeeeeeeeely hoping i had been caught by one in sutton a few weeks ago, would have made a great photo....

Blatting along the main duel carrage way and suddenly spot one, doing about 70 in a 50, see bloody thing about 3m's in front of me, quick application of breaks followed by screaching/smoke and brake lights, would have been quite artistic i think! :D

As it happens it seems it either wasnt working or i scrubbed off enough speed not to set it off phew......

[Pete C]

Originally posted by smiffad
screaching/smoke and brake lights

If you're lucky there may have been enough smoke to obscure your numberplate :D

[Deacon]

pete C where you in frome today

i saw a sx like yours same wheels roaring up the hill on the outside of town

i was just getting out of me car

nice car

Mongoose?

[Papa Lazarou]

Hmmm.. This got me thinking. Anyone ever thought of building one of these http://www.spacecatlighting.com/radarjammer.htm ;)

Slightly illegal however :rolleyes:

[Martin T]

If its a radar jammer then its incredibly daangerous for things like commercial airlines...All of their instrumentation goes mental near one of those.