"Tony Bryer" wrote in message
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 21:36:53 GMT Johnny B Good wrote :
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:22:49 +0100, dennis@home wrote:

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What's worse is that the magistrates colluded in this 'zero tolerance'
nonsense when they failed to demonstrate good common sense when presented
with a case involving a speeding offence where the recorded speed was a
mere 35mph in a 30mph zone (right on the +10% +2mph allowance limit).

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And if pressed, traffic engineers might confirm that they considered 35 to
be a safe speed on said road. This being so it couldn't be given a 40
limit
but 35 would be considered safe under normal conditions notwithstanding
the
official limit being 30.

We had the nonsensical situation here of some speed limits being reduced
from 90kph to 80kph to 'tidy things up' - nothing to do with safety.

That's done to minimise the number of speed limit changes.

NSW has in fact gone the other way adding more 60kph sections
where the 50kph built up area limit isn't very sensible, usually on
the higher volume roads in built up areas.