"PeterE" <peter@xyz_ringtail.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:berbi7$1h6$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Road Runner <roadrunner.RRR@freeuk.com> wrote:
> >
> > The parents of a child who was run down outside their house while
> > playing on their bike by a driver who was exceeding the posted speed
> > limit may very well disagree.
>
> Doesn't mean to say they'd be enthusiastic about the police manning
Talivans
> on major dual carriageways with no houses and underposted speed limits
> rather than spending their efforts trying to detect burglary.
>
> How many cameras and speed traps do you see on residential streets anyway?

Quite frequently through a village near me where there's a 40mph limit
(which I happen to think is warranted) and which happens to sit astride an
otherwise fast stretch of road.