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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
There are plenty of towns in rural areas like that here that are known as speed traps.
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We do have speed traps in the UK - but it's speed cameras. You can suddenly find that one stretch of road has gone from a 70 to a 50 with just-visible speed cameras because there was one accident there in the last however long (and the accident doesn't, apparently, need to have been a speed related one
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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared
New sub-divisions in our area were mandated to put in traffic circles at 4-way intersections instead of stop signs to "calm traffic" and slow down speeders.
After several drivers, speeding or not, plowed right through the traffic circles causing accidents, some fatal, the traffic circles were removed and stop signs erected.
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We had a roundabout(*) taken out near here a few years back - partly to prevent accidents, and partly to smooth traffic flow. Since then there have been more accidents and more congestion... The congestion is mostly down to very, very programming of the lights.
(* This was a proper roundabout with landscaping, not one of the tiddly little things painted in the middle of the road that it can be almost impossible to actually go around. If you'd tried to go over it, you'd've needed a 4x4)