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Re: red light cameras CAUSE accidents
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:31:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > Normally the focus is on the "intergreen" period - this will be 5-7 seconds
> > for a bogg-standard 30 mph set-up. This includes the red/amber (“get ready”)
> > and amber times (yes, I am a civil engineer).
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> Forget all that. Can you tell me why, when I see those Police Video shows
> from the UK, the surveillance cameras in the cop cars always show the speed
> in MPH?
We don't have "cop cars", we have "police cars", "panda" cars and "jam
sandwiches". ;)
> Are you folks finally seeing the light and giving up on that
> cumbersome, counter-intuitive so-called "metric" system of yours??
Road signs (speed and distances) have always been in MPH. I have no idea why
that was seen as being worth keeping.
Scott A
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> Dave!
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| (...) Forget all that. Can you tell me why, when I see those Police Video shows from the UK, the surveillance cameras in the cop cars always show the speed in MPH? Are you folks finally seeing the light and giving up on that cumbersome, (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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