{"id":464,"date":"2005-07-28T22:34:56","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T21:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2005-07-28T22:37:13","modified_gmt":"2005-07-28T21:37:13","slug":"safety-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Safety Camera?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh how love the so-called safety cameras. Yes, they are really fucking safe.<\/p>\n<p>Today featured a drive to Bury St Edmunds. loosely following <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?spn=1.902576,4.519226&#038;saddr=Brownhills,+West+Midlands,+WS8&#038;daddr=bury+st+edmunds&#038;hl=en\">this route<\/a> (but not exactly).<br \/>\nThe A14 is a dual carriageway, and has a nasty reputation for crashes, so some of it in Cambridgeshire has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambs.police.uk\/camops\/safetycameras\/locations\/index.asp\">goodly selection of<\/a>  cameras. On the face of it this seems like it might be a good idea, but here&#8217;s what happens on the A14:<\/p>\n<p><b>Stretches without cameras:<\/b> Traffic flows at 70-80 mph, trucks in nearside at 60. There are large gaps. <\/p>\n<p><b>Stretches with cameras:<\/b> Idiots brake to 15mph below speed limit. Both lanes bunch together at 55mph, with small gaps. Drivers stare at speedometer.<\/p>\n<p>Now as the A14 is a big, wide dual carriageway with no houses and few junctions, and a clear view most of the time, which seems safer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh how love the so-called safety cameras. Yes, they are really fucking safe. Today featured a drive to Bury St Edmunds. loosely following this route (but not exactly). The A14 is a dual carriageway, and has a nasty reputation for crashes, so some of it in Cambridgeshire has a goodly selection of cameras. On the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Safety Camera?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-driving","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}