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    Reducing the speed limit to 20mph has caused a rise in death and serious injuries, a council has admitted, but is refusing to reverse the scheme because it will cost too much.

    Bath and North East Somerset Council spent £871,000 bringing in the 13 new speed zones just 12 months ago.

    But one year on, a report has found that the rate of people killed or seriously injured has gone up in seven out of the 13 new 20mph zones.

    Despite the council's own report concluding that there is "little in the way of persuasive argument for continuing the programme in the future", deputy leader Patrick Anketell-Jones has admitted there simply isn't the money available to reverse the 20mph zones.

    The Conservative councillor said: "It has cost over £800,000 to roll out the 20mph zone and it would probably cost the same to reverse them.

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    Obvious to me! Motorists are spending too much time looking at the speedo instead of out the windows and pedestrians are spending too much time looking at their phone instead of looking where they are walking I could of given the council and all the other councils that information for a consultation fee of a mere £80,000 a bargain!
    Unfortunately these are merely money making scheme pretending to be for our good. When will council realise they are public servants and when we realise we can sack them all for misconduct and fraud in public service which is a serious crime
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    Quote Originally Posted by ifred View Post
    When will council realise they are public servants and when we realise we can sack them all for misconduct and fraud in public service which is a serious crime
    But the only choice we actually have is to not vote for them at the next election and vote for some other self interested ahole who will do the same and act in their own best interests. Same with MP's.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GastonJ View Post
    But the only choice we actually have is to not vote for them at the next election and vote for some other self interested ahole who will do the same and act in their own best interests. Same with MP's.
    I'll put you and meaty on my shortlist for that how can you make a bigger f'k up than them
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    For 2 board ether side at the cost of £871,000 just like meaty says we have been giving donation for water in Africa for over 50 years and they still not got water to drink getting tired of hearing money grabbing companies haven’t they got any were else to get money from, look Africa has more water then all of Europe they only have to direct water from Victoria falls and the continent will be flooded….
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    Quote Originally Posted by super jumbe View Post
    For 2 board ether side at the cost of £871,000 just like meaty says we have been giving donation for water in Africa for over 50 years and they still not got water to drink getting tired of hearing money grabbing companies haven’t they got any were else to get money from, look Africa has more water then all of Europe they only have to direct water from Victoria falls and the continent will be flooded….
    But if that was done all of the hangers on like charities and those that carry out their marketing campaigns wouldn't be making any money. Think of the poor directors of those charities. In the financial year 2012/13, Oxfam's chief executive was paid £119,560, not enough to even fuel up his/her company Bentley properly.
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    Here the list of charities that pay the top earners add the council leaders, police, fire chiefs etc..more money falling over our Money falls that water over Victoria falls Consumers’ Association £300k-£310k Marie Stopes International £260k-£270k Save the Children International £261,309 Cancer Research UK £210k-£220k British Red Cross Society £180k-£190k Age UK £180k-£190k Shaw Trust £180k-£190k National Trust £170k-£180k Royal Mencap Society £170k-£180k Crime Reduction Initiatives £170k-£180k Alternative Futures Group £170k-£180k British Heart Foundation £173,300 Leonard Cheshire Disability £160k-£170k Macmillan Cancer Support £160k-£170k Marie Curie Cancer Care £160k-£170k NSPCC £160k-£170k Addaction £160k-£170k Turning Point £165,000 Save the Children £162,220 Charities Aid Foundation £150k-£160k Barnardo’s £150k-£160k People’s Dispensary For Sick Animals £150k-£160k Sense, The National Deaf blind and Rubella Association £150k-£160k Royal Horticultural Society £150k-£160k Zoological Society of London £150k-£160k Historic Royal Palaces £151,037 Action for Children £140k-£150k Salvation Army £140k-£150k National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux £140k-£150k Royal National Lifeboat Institution £130k-£140k Royal British Legion £130k-£140k Royal National Institute of Blind People £130k-£140k Scope £130k-£140k National Autistic Society £130k-£140k St John Ambulance £130k-£140k Alzheimer’s Society £130k-£140k United Response £120k-£130k Dogs Trust £120k-£130k Voluntary Service Overseas £120k-£130k National Schizophrenia Fellowship £120k-£130k Catch22 £120k-£130k Courteous of http://legalrecruitment.blogspot.co....f-highest.html quote "I recently discovered the list below of the charities with the highest paid staff in the country and it makes for very distressing reading. As a matter of policy, the Ten-Percent Foundation will not be donating to any charity in future that pays a CEO or equivalent more than £75,000, which we believe is a reasonable wage to be paying a decent manager or director involved in a non-profitable and charitable venture. " A few have the right idea....not many though!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ifred View Post
    Here the list of charities that pay the top earners add the council leaders, police, fire chiefs etc..more money falling over our Money falls that water over Victoria falls Consumers’ Association £300k-£310k Marie Stopes International £260k-£270k Save the Children International £261,309 Cancer Research UK £210k-£220k British Red Cross Society £180k-£190k Age UK £180k-£190k Shaw Trust £180k-£190k National Trust £170k-£180k Royal Mencap Society £170k-£180k Crime Reduction Initiatives £170k-£180k Alternative Futures Group £170k-£180k British Heart Foundation £173,300 Leonard Cheshire Disability £160k-£170k Macmillan Cancer Support £160k-£170k Marie Curie Cancer Care £160k-£170k NSPCC £160k-£170k Addaction £160k-£170k Turning Point £165,000 Save the Children £162,220 Charities Aid Foundation £150k-£160k Barnardo’s £150k-£160k People’s Dispensary For Sick Animals £150k-£160k Sense, The National Deaf blind and Rubella Association £150k-£160k Royal Horticultural Society £150k-£160k Zoological Society of London £150k-£160k Historic Royal Palaces £151,037 Action for Children £140k-£150k Salvation Army £140k-£150k National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux £140k-£150k Royal National Lifeboat Institution £130k-£140k Royal British Legion £130k-£140k Royal National Institute of Blind People £130k-£140k Scope £130k-£140k National Autistic Society £130k-£140k St John Ambulance £130k-£140k Alzheimer’s Society £130k-£140k United Response £120k-£130k Dogs Trust £120k-£130k Voluntary Service Overseas £120k-£130k National Schizophrenia Fellowship £120k-£130k Catch22 £120k-£130k Courteous of http://legalrecruitment.blogspot.co....f-highest.html quote "I recently discovered the list below of the charities with the highest paid staff in the country and it makes for very distressing reading. As a matter of policy, the Ten-Percent Foundation will not be donating to any charity in future that pays a CEO or equivalent more than £75,000, which we believe is a reasonable wage to be paying a decent manager or director involved in a non-profitable and charitable venture. " A few have the right idea....not many though!
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    ON TOPIC:-

    round here there is a 20 zone, week before M-H-M opened, hated it, but in fact it's great
    because some inbred put speed humps everywhere, your towing a trailer with a stolen car, bike bus or even simply a stolen lawn mower or chest of draws, no hard feelings when impatuent bmw or merc driver up your arse, slow diwn asshole.

    oh speaking of 20 zone and bmw assholes, crissroads other day, bmw driver put his foot down to beat me to tge junction, i "cut" him up by pulling out, fir been an asshole, look on his face!

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    you can go that fast on your pushbike whilst towing! You must have thigh like a gorilla and Nora Batty stockings to match
    With a body like that can't understand why Tracy Barlow wont twitter you? Send her pics of your CV joints!
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    It just confirms that councillors, government and police are in favour of speeding that they can come up with a conclusion that 20mph has caused rise in accidents. I’d like to see their evidence that the injuries resulting from a collision at 20mph are more series than at 30mph.

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    Rumours told the pedestrians can not hear car coming at 20 mph and for that reason they get run over, has any one got run over under the tractor no because they are noisy.
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    Now you said that sj often get people walking in front of stolen cycle, cross road no looking

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    Quote Originally Posted by super jumbe View Post
    Rumours told the pedestrians can not hear car coming at 20 mph and for that reason they get run over, has any one got run over under the tractor no because they are noisy.
    No worries. Get your car serviced at meathead motors, you'll hear it coming a mile away.


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