PeterE <peter@xyz_ringtail.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

> Steve Firth <usenet-ut@malloc.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > The A6 through Stockport used to be notorious for speeding vehicles
> > and the deaths they caused. The vehicles speeding were trucks operated
> > by a local company that didn't give a damn about who got killed.
> >
> > Fortunately at present the gridlock on that road has slowed them down.
> 
> Yes, it's amusing in a way looking at the speed cameras (particularly the
> pair by Sainsbury's in Hazel Grove) standing guard over a road fully of
> stationary traffic.

It's been that way since at least 1967. I can recall that Hazel Grove
was often the end of my father's attempts to take the kids out for the
weekend. After sitting in a queue for several hours staring in through
the windows of a camera shop, he would take the first chance to turn the
car around and a day out at the seaside became a day out at Lyme Hall.

-- 
It was so cold that politicians were walking around with
their hands in their own pockets.