Wat een prachtig staaltje journalistiek! Ik ben er zeker van dat elke auto bestuurder van zijn (auto)stoel valt van het verschieten van dit nieuwe gegeven!
/s voor zij die het nog niet door hadden.
Column, so take it with a grain of salt. Here’s the translated part for our non-dutch speaking friends:
>**We’re putting Flanders full of speed checks, they said. It’s all for your safety, they said.**
Pretty much the whole of Flanders is full of average speed checks these days. It’s not to check us or to bully us: it’s for our own safety. Otherwise, we might dare to drive seventy-one where we are allowed to do so and fly off the road, with all its consequences. On the motorway, there is a bit more leeway. There, speeders are only fined from 129 km/h. Although tricycle fanatics like to get rid of that bigger slack there too.
Anyway, you get the point. Where there are average speed checks, there are far fewer accidents, and that’s what it’s all about in the end. The fact that an accelerator hooligan brings in money for the exchequer is a fortuitous side effect.
Anyway, that’s the narrative. In France – you know, that country where there are serious riots at the moment – they started filling up with average speed checks a bit earlier. For safety, of course. And there they are going to phase out their average speed checks… now.
The reason? They cost more in maintenance than they bring in. Quite obvious: people know where those checkpoints are, and keep their right foot in check at those spots. Because speed cameras and mobile speed cameras yield about three times more than average speed checks, the country is going to (re)replace average speed checks as a result.
All for road safety, of course: surely increasing the chance of being caught is much safer than stretches of dozens of kilometres where no one dares to accelerate?
Of course, this is not to say that if it turns out they are secretly doing it in France for the money, it will also be the case with us. But it could be, right?
Cringe, the site
Hopen da we frankrijk achterna gaan. Ik zit meer op mijn kilometriek te kijken dan voor mij. Bullshit.
Amai, hebben die van pnws 5 dagen nodig om iemand anders zijn artikel te herschrijven op basis van de commentaren op dat artikel?
En zelfs àls snelheidscontroles enkel bedoeld zijn om de staatskas te spekken: who cares? Dan zijn het gewoon belastingen die je zonder veel moeite kunt ontwijken. Dit is echt een non-issue.
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Wat een prachtig staaltje journalistiek! Ik ben er zeker van dat elke auto bestuurder van zijn (auto)stoel valt van het verschieten van dit nieuwe gegeven!
/s voor zij die het nog niet door hadden.
Column, so take it with a grain of salt. Here’s the translated part for our non-dutch speaking friends:
>**We’re putting Flanders full of speed checks, they said. It’s all for your safety, they said.**
Pretty much the whole of Flanders is full of average speed checks these days. It’s not to check us or to bully us: it’s for our own safety. Otherwise, we might dare to drive seventy-one where we are allowed to do so and fly off the road, with all its consequences. On the motorway, there is a bit more leeway. There, speeders are only fined from 129 km/h. Although tricycle fanatics like to get rid of that bigger slack there too.
Anyway, you get the point. Where there are average speed checks, there are far fewer accidents, and that’s what it’s all about in the end. The fact that an accelerator hooligan brings in money for the exchequer is a fortuitous side effect.
Anyway, that’s the narrative. In France – you know, that country where there are serious riots at the moment – they started filling up with average speed checks a bit earlier. For safety, of course. And there they are going to phase out their average speed checks… now.
The reason? They cost more in maintenance than they bring in. Quite obvious: people know where those checkpoints are, and keep their right foot in check at those spots. Because speed cameras and mobile speed cameras yield about three times more than average speed checks, the country is going to (re)replace average speed checks as a result.
All for road safety, of course: surely increasing the chance of being caught is much safer than stretches of dozens of kilometres where no one dares to accelerate?
Of course, this is not to say that if it turns out they are secretly doing it in France for the money, it will also be the case with us. But it could be, right?
Cringe, the site
Hopen da we frankrijk achterna gaan. Ik zit meer op mijn kilometriek te kijken dan voor mij. Bullshit.
Amai, hebben die van pnws 5 dagen nodig om iemand anders zijn artikel te herschrijven op basis van de commentaren op dat artikel?
En zelfs àls snelheidscontroles enkel bedoeld zijn om de staatskas te spekken: who cares? Dan zijn het gewoon belastingen die je zonder veel moeite kunt ontwijken. Dit is echt een non-issue.