I got nabbed for speeding a few weeks ago. This is grossly unfair. I am famous for driving slowly on all occassions. I have written to my local council about traffic speeds in our area (to absolutely no effect - I have a letter from them dated Feb 06 promising to monitor traffic speeds which they have not done).

I don’t deny I was over the speed limit, but I’d just come off a country road on to the A69 which is an A road and for a lot of its distance is a dual carriageway. As I drove on to it from the b road, I assumed I needed to get up to speed fairly quickly not to cause an accident. Wrong. There’s a speed camera because this is still at the outskirts of a small town. But why is the speed camera positioned there as people *leave* the town? And why no sign to remind drivers that they are still in a 30mph zone for another 100 yards or so? It may or may not be deliberate, but it certainly feels that way. I’m now debating whether to contest the fine on this basis - although the way the ‘justice system’ is weighted, if I do contest, I may get a larger fine.

The point of this post is the extraordinary bureacracy from the police I’ve now been caught in. I can understand why its seen as the last part of the public sector which doesn’t seem to have experienced much of the ‘reform’ which the rest of the public sector has experienced.