Random Irritations

[Captainron]

Mumsnet on a Sunday. Eesh!

 

[PJ87]

Mumsnet on a Sunday. Eesh!

Does complaining about it make people a snow flake that they complain the youth of today are?

 

[KenL]

Mumsnet on a Sunday. Eesh!

Quality contribution.

 

[Captainron]

Quality contribution.

I stand by it. Thanks for your validation

 

[PJ87]

Quality contribution.

Standard of the "forums gone downhill brigade" hand in hand with "the world's more pc"

Nah people are just trying to be kinder in life and aren't as accepting of outdated views

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Should be 20 mph in all built up residential areas , any roads near schools or big playgrounds etc

Speaking as a professional driver
Schools, yes as long as it’s 8:15-9 and 2:45 -3:45, the rest? 30 is fine.

Have you actually driven in London recently? Most of central London is 20, it is so difficult to drive at that speed, it is positively dangerous, drivers are looking at their speedometer and not at the road.

Madness it is

 

[bobmac]

But surely you can admit that cars spend much longer in towns due to the lower speed limits?
Therefore more pollution.

Not in my car

 

[Bunkermagnet]

I wonder what is actually more dangerous, cars doing more than 20 mph past a school, or the parents of that schools children parking on the yellow zig zags every day. The only people that commonly drive past a school at entrance/exit times are the schools parents who all to often view the road their school is in as theirs and laws don’t apply to them.

 

[rudebhoy]

Email yesterday because I own a second home, used for work, Council Tax is getting doubled to 200%

Assuming that a) both houses are under different councils, and b) the council for your main home doesn't have the same policy, can't you flip them like MPs do, and declare your second home as your main residence, so that you are only paying 100% council tax on both?

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

Its raining again.
Course already wet and muddy.
Fairway mats compulsory.
Lots of balls lost under leaves.
Everyone muttering "Ridiculous".
But .... it's open.
The zombie stirs...

 

[pendodave]

Those pesky dangerous 20 moh speed limits...

Wales 20mph: Serious road casualties drop 23%, figures show

Deaths or serious injuries fall 23% on 20mph and 30mph roads since Wales' default 20mph came in.

www.bbc.co.uk

Our acceptance of other peoples' deaths and injuries is truly brain bending.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Speaking as a professional driver
Schools, yes as long as it’s 8:15-9 and 2:45 -3:45, the rest? 30 is fine.

Have you actually driven in London recently? Most of central London is 20, it is so difficult to drive at that speed, it is positively dangerous, drivers are looking at their speedometer and not at the road.

Madness it is

Why the need to move to 30 - kids will still be in and around the school roads from about 7 until late

There is no need to move to 30

Are people that poor at their time management or they have little paitence that 20 is that much of a hardship for them

Going to school every day and you see all kinds of idiots driving like clowns. Would love to go one step further and have more pedestrianisation

 

[chellie]

Switched my mobile on this morning and it's stopped working. No display, can't switch it off etc. Been online, it's still under guarantee and followed the support. I need to ring them. I can't use the phone as it doesnt work Will have to wait until HID home from work so I can use his.

 

[Fade and Die]

Those pesky dangerous 20 moh speed limits...

Wales 20mph: Serious road casualties drop 23%, figures show

Deaths or serious injuries fall 23% on 20mph and 30mph roads since Wales' default 20mph came in.

www.bbc.co.uk

Our acceptance of other peoples' deaths and injuries is truly brain bending.

Obviously going slower is safer but would you roll the 20mph limit out everywhere then, Trunk roads, Dual carriageways, motorways?

If not why not?

 

[cliveb]

Obviously going slower is safer but would you roll the 20mph limit out everywhere then, Trunk roads, Dual carriageways, motorways?

If not why not?

I asked much the same question back in post #50536 but nobody picked up on it.

The question needs to be answered: if going slower is safer, then how slow is too slow?

 

[PJ87]

I asked much the same question back in post #50536 but nobody picked up on it.

The question needs to be answered: if going slower is safer, then how slow is too slow?

It's all about risk

Slow where people are IE towns fine

Faster on motorways fine

Statistically speaking the safest roads

 

[Arthur Wedge]

I asked much the same question back in post #50536 but nobody picked up on it.

The question needs to be answered: if going slower is safer, then how slow is too slow?

Let’s be sensible here and use a bit of common sense

It’s about the risks and outside agency’s

When traveling on “motorways and trunks roads etc” the risks are just a little different and traffic can move safely and smoothly at higher speeds.


In built areas the risk is greater due to the make up of roads , cars parked , pedestrians, other cars coming the other way

Surely it’s just “common sense”

 

[backwoodsman]

And common sense says that when there is no appreciable risk of hitting anything, 30 should be perfectly acceptable - even in built up areas.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

And common sense says that when there is no appreciable risk of hitting anything, 30 should be perfectly acceptable - even in built up areas.

So how do you get to the stage of no appreciable risk in a built up area

 

[Bazz]

Trying to get my hospital results to see if it's worked or not.
Nope, looks like I'll have to guess.