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I reckon they are manned by Ant and Dec lookalikes - Watch Bo'selecta...

I used to live in Swindon, where roundabouts are a way of life...wherever two roads meet, thou shalt have a roundabout, whether you want one or not. I am sure you have heard of the Magic Roundabout?

http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm

The woman in charge of the traffic department in Swindon Council can't even drive. When a new Sainsbury's was built in West Swindon they had two lanes to it...great. Then they blocked one off to provide a bus lane (lots of those in Swindon too). Then they cancelled the proposed bus service, but they didn't remove the bus lane.

Driving in the UK becomes less and less of a pleasure every time I go back.

Since most families in the UK have two workers and two cars that sort of political mandate would raise a parties popularity in the UK as well.

Hellfire... just converting O2 in the CO2 whilst driving makes a 3km variance in my car..

Oh yeah our lot are as dodgy as your let, except our state govt doesn't pretend to hide the fact is revenue raising as much (we are descended from convicts remembers and our currency was rum...)

Its a bit daft though cos in Northern Territory, there are no speed limits, but different states have different limits. One big problem is some state will book you now for doing 3kmh over limit (use to be 10% +3) - but the Aust. Design Rule says speedos can have 10% error. Go figure.

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Skippy

Phil

Its 10% plus 2, so 35 is good !!

I have an sp30, nov 2001, south wales scamera partnership 35 in a 30 !

And its only going to get worse !

There was an article in a classic car paper that may/maynot interest you.

That anticar cretin, Ken Livingston, (he is the mayor of london for the benefit of skippy) is now proposing to make "clean air" zones, which he hopes to extend to the whole of london.

If your car is pre-cat, which my beamer is, you WONT be allowed to drive in these.

In the words of Homer, it just gets worse and worse.

We are all going to be in trouble when Duncan gets back from Gaydon lol

There has never been so much posting in the 8 series techical forum, but not much of it is technical lol.

Good to see a "skippy" joining in the frog bashing though !

On the point of updating the road angel, I do it every week, just plug it into the net, the info changes so much as cameras come and go in roadworks, and people update thier own units whilst driving and coming across even more of these dam cameras.

As you need to update so often I think it would have to be net based, anything else would get messy and inconvenient.

Aussie, are your lot getting as carried away as ours?

The (S)camera partnership in Worcester installed a gatso camera on a road with no accident record. (My wife can remember one fatality, on the opposite side of the road when she was 16, the old dear is in her 40's now, and has lived here all her life)

They operated it for 2 days a week for a month, and raised £48,000 (they assure us its not about money though), the speed limit is 30, and according to the local paper not one offence was above 40 !!!

LOL, I can always be forced to drink beer..

I watched the last World Cup in the jungle and had plenty of froggy baiting material after their first game against Senegal. The Gabonese Africans were celebrating in the villages. A very memorable p***-up.

No worries...all intersting stuff!

Nigel, you could just update the Angel database by getting a new CD-ROM, just like you do now with the navi systems. You don't update the receiver, just buy a more up-to-date mapping CD.

Funny to read what you guys think about French and French food. Here in Bavaria it's just the opposite...all you can get is pork and potatoes! The Bavarian idea of a vegetarian dish is a ham omelette!

Mind you, they also 'force' you to drink beer with every meal too, so it's not all bad!

We also work closely with the French (part of the company is based in Nice) and I have to say that they put the British 'old-school tie' system to shame. If you haven't been to the right school in France, you're nobody.

In my company we currently have 37 different nationalities. As you can imagine that makes for a very interesting few weeks when the footy World Cup is on!

Aussie

I have to admit that the frogs are generaly nice, I spend quite a lot of time over there.

Its work not social, but the people are great.

As always its the press and governments.

The food isnt bad either.......once you can actually get them to cook it lol

I promise you, some of the steaks they serve up a good vet would get going again