Speed traps work
There’s a piece in Channel NewsAsia on a Singapore website posting locations of speed traps, Motorists post locations of 50 police speed traps on Internet to warn others:
“Being a good driver you should not speed in places where you should not speed at all, isn’t it? So I think this isn’t a good site to have.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but if people know the speed traps are at certain locations, they will either avoid them altogether or, oddly enough, not speed. If a speed camera location is publicised to all and sundry, people will know not to be lead-footed there.
Isn’t that a good thing in the ‘preventing speeding’ department? Is there a quota of speeding fines the Traffic Police have to meet or something? Why not combine these known locations with mobile speed traps covering alternative routes?
(Said list is on sgForums.com. In case you haven’t guessed by now, I don’t tend to speed. I’m what you might call a laid back driver.)
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We have http://www.speedtrap.org here in the USA … of course, it’s not entirely useful since we all know where the ‘bridge-trolls’ dwell.
In Australia the guys on JJJ radio used to send “greetings to the officers at xxxx” or “watch out for the broken down bus full of police men at xxxx” (that was the random breath test patrols).
Triple J is great.
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