Now over 21 years old and still standing! This was erected in 1986 as a protest by American born Bill Heine who stayed in Oxford after his postgraduate degree at Balliol College. It’s 25 foot long and Bill successfully overcame the ire of local town planners to keep it up. You can read how on the linked site.
Bill is now a presenter for Radio Oxford. I think for this one act with the shark, never mind his cinema naming end-run around the planners (read that on the linked site as well) he should be made an honorary Englishman.
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It has taken fifteen years since they were first introduced but it has finally sunk in that Speed Cameras are not deployed for safety but as a form of taxation on driving. We were amongst the safest roads in Europe until speed cameras were introduced but then the year on year improvements in safety and reduction virtually came to a halt. See the portent story on SafeSpeed for details.
It stands to reason that if you drive with one eye on the speedo and one looking for cameras you are not as safe a driver as if you are looking for potential problems. And the big lie that speeding causes 1/3rd of casualties was finally shown to be totally wrong- the Govt measured figure is nearer 5%. Inattention is the main cause.
But as the Boston Tea Party showed, you can push people so far before they fight back and this site shows people fighting back- by destroying Gatsos. There are many photos…Now if only they’d do the same for the Speed bumps and stupid 20 mph zones.
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