'Blackburn speed sign down on day of trap' (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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'Blackburn speed sign down on day of trap'
5:00pm Friday 10th August 2012 in News
By Jessica Cree, Education reporter
Sandy Woods at the Revidge Road sign
DRIVERS have expressed concerns after a speed indicator sign stopped working the same day police patrols were stepped up in the area.
The electronic sign, in Revidge Road, is sited near Corporation Park, Blackburn, to help motorists stick to the 30mph speed limit.
Sandy Woods, who lives in Park Farm Road and travels along the stretch of road every day, said he was driving along the road on Tuesday, and found it strange when he saw the sign was broken and a police car waiting just up the road.
But Blackburn with Darwen Council said the sign was not swit-ched off, and that driv-ers should stick to the limit, even if it is not working.
Mr Woods, 57, said: “I was on my way home and there was a car in front doing a manoeuvre, so I had slowed right down.
“I noticed the board wasn’t working, which was unusual and then, up the road a little bit, there was a police car sitting there and some poor citizen was getting a ticket.
“I can fully understand why they have got the speed indicator there. It is a very good place to have it and it works every other day, but it was ridiculous.”
Stuart Scott, network manager at Blackburn with Darwen Council, said: “This advisory speed indicator was not switched off.
“This is a 30mph road though so, regardless of whether there’s a sign or not, motorists should still be keeping to the limit.”
Sgt Pete Sculpher, from the road policing unit, said the extra patrol was put on in response to residents’ concerns.
He said: “Local residents have raised concerns to us about people driving down Revidge Road at excessive speed.
“The local authority has carried out some engineering works to improve the safety, but people continue to drive too fast.
“If people want to avoid a speeding ticket, and a fine, and penalty points, then it is very simple – do not speed.”
Comments(19)
anjisan
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5:32pm Fri 10 Aug 12
Plasticbertrand
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5:55pm Fri 10 Aug 12
billy32
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6:17pm Fri 10 Aug 12
Another Day
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6:49pm Fri 10 Aug 12
tpreece01
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7:00pm Fri 10 Aug 12
A speed limit is a speed limit regardless of advisory signs. You should need signs when your car has a speedometer.
anonther
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7:08pm Fri 10 Aug 12
WRONG! motorists should be keeping WITHIN the limit. This is what comes of employing town hall zealots who can only think of targets and a number on a tin dish. As anyone with common sense knows, driving at or near to the posted speed limit at all times is a recipe for disaster. Just as going a little faster when conditions allow is rather less dangerous than going at 20mph past a school at 9am. But guess who the network manager would rather give a ticket to?
What is a network manager?
Dave_P
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8:40pm Fri 10 Aug 12
JayEss
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9:00pm Fri 10 Aug 12
Wrong, up the road, a law breaker was getting penalised for breaking the law. Motorists kill hundreds a year.
Slow down, save lives.
ste.g
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9:51pm Fri 10 Aug 12
jack daniels
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11:37pm Fri 10 Aug 12
anonther wrote:keeping to and keeping with are the same thing. You just seem to find fault where there is none
Stuart Scott, network manager at Blackburn with Darwen Council, said: “This advisory speed indicator was not switched off. This is a 30mph road though so, regardless of whether there’s a sign or not, motorists should still be keeping to the limit.”
WRONG! motorists should be keeping WITHIN the limit. This is what comes of employing town hall zealots who can only think of targets and a number on a tin dish. As anyone with common sense knows, driving at or near to the posted speed limit at all times is a recipe for disaster. Just as going a little faster when conditions allow is rather less dangerous than going at 20mph past a school at 9am. But guess who the network manager would rather give a ticket to?
What is a network manager?
woolywords
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2:30am Sat 11 Aug 12
Why not do the entire opposite of a reduction, make the streets 70mph, then when your relative is killed by a motorist, you can say that they weren't fast enough to cross the road, so therefore, should never be let out.
It beggars belief that motorists have the bare faced effrontery to complain that they are hard done by when you consider that THEY are supposed to be the responsible one's.
I own an RAC competitors license which allows me to drive as fast as I like on CLOSED roads within the UK and other places.. Not a supermarket car park, nor to impress my mates in an hired car after any religeous period...
Where are you people in the snow?
In a ditch, up a bank or in a morgue?
Not a freaking one of you commenting here has ever, in your sad existence, driven for a living on anything other than the roads of the UK, in conditions that are less than your ideal of perfect..
Oh, we have potholes, rain water and lumps in the roads..
Get a grip, you sad pathetic lumps of excrement, that think that, I pay my road fund, QED, deserve a road..
No, you don't and you never did!
Point me to where it states that your money goes to make roads, and I'll show you a gov't lie..
This country has more accidents on it's motorways than they do on the German Autobahns, where they have no speed limits.. Ever wonder why?
It's because you have the utter arrogance to believe that you OWN the road via your some sense of right..
In your belted safety seated, air-bagged, monocoqued crumple zone existence, you believe that you are invulnerable..
Sad fact is.. 30mph is the most dangerous area to be in a car.
Children survive 20mph impacts!
So honk your car up and down the roads, to impress your mates..
woolywords
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2:55am Sat 11 Aug 12
I wish that my sad-sacked police force would ever do anything about anyone reporting to them that, in my opinion, the car driven down such and such a street, registration number, whatever..needs to be spoken to..
Instead of the banal answer, unless they commit a crime, we are unable to respond to it..
which part of, too fast for the road restrictions and conditions is not a crime, you set of sack-sacked numbnuts?
Of course, when you complain after 3 times, their system marks you up as a persistant complainer and therefore largely ignored..
So when a bus is up my trumpet, honking the horn, urging my calibrated car, to go faster than the limit of the road, you ignore me..
Even though there is a more than 10% error in most vehicles ability to record it's velocity..
Shame you don't apply the same criteria to the motorist, on your speed detection systems, innit?
"you were going a bit fast there, Sir.."
woolywords
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3:11am Sat 11 Aug 12
Was testing a works ford focus 4x4 on the motorway, in the early hours of a Sunday morning, when it left the Tebay police for dead, when they turned on the blues and two's..
Poor lambs can only do 137mph..
halfhearted
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8:22am Sat 11 Aug 12
woolywords wrote:What a Plonker
however, there is an happy ending to this.. Was testing a works ford focus 4x4 on the motorway, in the early hours of a Sunday morning, when it left the Tebay police for dead, when they turned on the blues and two's.. Poor lambs can only do 137mph..
eastlancslad
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9:57am Sat 11 Aug 12
Woolywords, the time you posted this rubbish, was the time you should have been fast asleep. Does you carer know you were up?
Your ferret stinks
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2:09pm Sat 11 Aug 12
paulc
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7:57am Sun 12 Aug 12
woolywords wrote:Not safe to be let out.
however, there is an happy ending to this..
Was testing a works ford focus 4x4 on the motorway, in the early hours of a Sunday morning, when it left the Tebay police for dead, when they turned on the blues and two's..
Poor lambs can only do 137mph..
You would think such a self-agrandising loudmouth would know the legal speed limit. Clearly one of those types who is such a good driver he thinks the speed limits don't apply to him.
Black Car Guy.
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3:06pm Mon 13 Aug 12
frank says...
5:08pm Fri 10 Aug 12
“If people want to avoid a speeding ticket, and a fine, and penalty points, then it is very simple – do not speed.”
why the OTT headline, don't motorists have common sense?