As a Brit living a few km from Leuven I can't decide which is worse. At least
Belgium doesn't have points on the licence yet so it's just the 150-odd euros
that hurt when you find that envelope in the mailbox (for doing 10-20km/h above
the limit - it's gets progressively more expensive).
Aside: when I asked MS Money to propose a budget for me this year, it took all
the signioficant costs from last year and allocated them across the next 12
months. There was a regular scheduled transaction "Speeding Tickets"...
br
Jez
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Leyssens" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Cell phones/Italy, as far OT as possible
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:42:35 +0200
>
>
>
> > Just be grateful you don't live in the UK. Thanks to our
> > revenue-obsessed government, this little island harbours 70% of the
> > world's speed cameras. And as a result deaths on the roads are
> > increasing.
>
> I'll give you a story of Leuven, the city where I live, which should
> provide all French list members with yet another true joke about Belgians.
>
> The first idea was to get most traffic out of the city centre, onto the
> ring road around it. Lots of streets were converted to one way or
> pedestrian only, pedestrian right of way and speed limits were severely
> enforced. The city is quite small, so just heading for the ring road
> and driving half a tour isn't too much of a hassle.
>
> Obviously, a couple of years later, people were complaining about
> speeding on the ring road. So, a battery of speed cameras were
> installed. Result ? Everybody's back in the city with their cars !
>
> I wish they would just make up their mind. Like that one-way street
> they just switched to be in the other direction. Then, the parallel
> street had to be redone, so now the one-way street is reverted again.
> Reminds me of that story I once read in French of a roundabout with only
> one way streets leading towards it. ("But, but ! If I get sick ?" --
> "You see ? There's the ambulance driving around. And if it gets worse,
> there's the funeral services too !")
>
>
> Peter.
>
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