Look at the car in front of the 60mph signs. Now imagine a civilian dressed in Police uniform standing directly in front of the sign holding a hand operated speed camera 'clocking' cars accelerating up from 30mph towards the sign. Apparently until you 'pass' the sign, the speed limit is still 30mph, and therefore you are breaking the speed limit if you are doing anything over 30! A very Blatant case of raising revenue and reaching given targets to increase their earnings. And dressed in Police Uniforms to stop the public from attacking them, although they are NOT Policemen!
These bastards are employed under the 'Safety Partnership'and paid a salary and comissions on how many they catch. Each have a target to reach each month given to them by the Staffordshre Police and the Council.
What this particular operation had anything to do with ' Road Safety' is preposterous. Just greedy bastards out to make as much money as possible.
That 15 feet cost me £70 and 3 points on my licence for doing 37mph.
I have driven over 3 times around the world and a very Safe driver with nothing on my licence when I came here, and within the space of 9 months I now have 6 points. I pity the people living here permanently as it is a blatant case of bullying by the local authorities and robbing them of their hard earned money.
Beware.....There are more speed cameras in Staffordshire than in the WHOLE of Europe.
2008-07-03 @ 17:52