Unfortunately speed limits are no longer set by traffic engineers, they are set by politicians who would sell their own mother for a vote. Don’t expect it to get better anytime soon.
It's almost as if the authorities are trying to trap people into exceeding the speed limit. Also, one of the most effective psychological techniques for subduing people is to make them subject to lots of petty rules and regulations which don't seem to make a great deal of sense. That's precisely how armies break down recruits in order to remake them as compliant cogs in the military machine.
I've just renewed my Classic Bike insurance, I informed them about my fairly new 9 points (3+6) and it didn't change the renewal quote.
agree, it wasn't to be taken as lightly as many suggest - 4 times the fatalities from a "flu bug" and probably best if we all move this off into the COVID threads if we really have to start stirring the whole thing up again.
Agree, although its slightly more factual than most of the mis information and cluelessness in this thread.
Just to update you, I seem to recall @Robert Colliver answering this correctly. You can attend all of the courses not just 1 in a 3 year period. Last year I attended a motorway awareness course for 70 through an overhead illuminated sign of 40 for ‘workforce in the road’. As you stated majority were for using a closed lane just me for speeding. Then this year I was offered a speed awareness course for 55 in a 40, I took the course.
So after confirming i didnt want to renew with Sterling (Van) Insurance and them closing my account (who were quoting me just under £700) I got insured with Sterling (Van) Insurance yesterday for £415 via Compare the Market. I had to phone them once it had gone through online as i got a message saying they had some doubts they wanted answered, but all they wanted was the mileage of my van lol. Such a fucking scam.
the reality of it hurts, but Insurance is a legal casino, except they have to make sure that they always have the winning hand. https://www.lloyds.com/about-lloyds/history/catastophes-and-claims/titanic
i was saying only recently, (but generalising of an age) how lucky we were to have enjoyed driving and piloting vehicles "with a free spirit" in our "youth". I will never forget the wacky journeys to Le Mans in the 80's knowing full well that this would be tamer than people doing the same trip in the 70's. If Mike Hawthorn was around now he would either have no driving licence or a "special dispensation" the like of which the Duke of E. enjoyed for a few years.
