Everywhere you go now.....

Johnny Five, come down from there immediately

I jest, harsh but true times we live in.

And just how do you manage 100 miles a day around SE London Grizz. My hat goes off to you

One of these things is going to kill me one day, given the amount of times someone's jumped on their brakes even when they're inside the limit upon spotting one, usually bunching the traffic up a treat.

Wonder how much more economical everyone would be if they drove properly and didn't have to deal with urban 'traffic control' methods...

Great idea. Leaving un taxed cars laid up on the road, I have no problem with. Driving them I do have a problem with. But, they should'nt be so strict about them being laid up.

That ype of van you see at the top there is for monitering the congestion zone and the LEZ ( Low emision Zones ), used to walk past one all the time in Islington, and the side door would be open with a guy just sitting in it monitering the screens inside.
Seems to me to be not very cost effective, but I suppose if they catch enough zone dodgers it makes up for it.

The ANPR and parking enforcement ones seem to be new shape Tranny's with 4 cameras on them, one on each corner of the roof.

However i've also seen an unmarked white Sprinter with a speed camera sticking out of an open flap in the high top above the rear doors.

100 miles a day in South East London!!! Jesus. I live in East Dulwich. I feel for you. It's the worst area to drive around in.

Charlie

Big Brother is watching everyone, so everyone is watching out for Big Brother, and no-one is watching where they are actually going.
Given the already poor standards of driving in evidence daily, the last thing that is needed in the name of "road safety" is something else to distract drivers attention.

As for ANPR, I am 150% against it in all forms. NO WAY does the government have the right to track my movements.

"but it targets uninsured, untaxed cars and will help in the Fight Against Terror" they say.

WILL IT F*CK

All it does is makes life a little harder for Ordinary Joe`s like us, while scumbags continue to roll in bangers bought from auction for a few hundred quid and not registered in their own names, or in cars with cloned plates -By the way, expect numberplate theft and car cloning to rocket in the next few years- or in cars registered to false identities.
We keep our cars legal, because we are generally law-abiding and don't want to cross the line as we have a lot to loose, but barry the chav or abdul the terrorist (nothing like a stereotype eh?!) has nothing to loose so carries on flouting the law without fear, because he knows the chances of actually being caught are laughably small and even if he is caught, he is looking at a slap on the wrist, a £50 fine to be payed in 10 installements and maybe 20 minutes community service.

FARCE.

personally i don't see the big deal.

stop speeding and you won't get a fine, it is illegal afterall.

i suspect most, if not all members on here never drive a car illegally. and would be quite annoyed if an illegal car was to run into you. what they are doing is trying to reduce the number of drivers doing so illegally. how is this such a bad thing.

If you don't want to go into the back of people who brake suddenly, then don't tailgate.

not such a big sacrifice is it really.

what is?

I find it a bit weird that retro-rides is expected to have a hive-mind!

Really? I'm completely not in favour of computer-based policing, for exactly the reasons outlined in Scary's thread of a few days back. Speed cameras do cause folk to panic brake, it's almost a reflex reaction in every driver I know, no different to breathing, swallowing or flinching or blocking when someone tries to punch you. It does seem these days that there's too much emphasis on catching the slightest traffic offence and fining accordingly, and as long as that continues, the more folk will be looking out for cameras than they will for actual hazards.