HoboBeemer wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2020 9:52 am
Personally I am getting cheesed off with the way motorist are being used as a cash cow and at what point will the oppression start to effect tourist numbers with people avoiding the region?.
It is becoming more a game of luck over judgement regarding if you get a Penalty notice in the post. I am planning a few summer tours in 2020 and honestly if they are taking piss as I have been reading I will simply bypass the whole country, splashing out hundreds of euros in a unjustified manner is not acceptable to me, and no doubt like Switzerland that got a fair bit of negative press from 44 Teeth with a absurd fine of thousands of pounds why bother even taking the risk going there as a tourist for a driving holiday?.
No doubt mentioned somewhere but what is the general consensus regarding the one way street of enforcement that the UK government has allowed regarding European countries obtaining driver details from the DVLA post Brexit?.
Well the UK was the first european country to do a wholesale national roll out of speed cameras, and the others are now learning what a good source of revenue it can be.
Personally my problem with them is the placement. I can understand a camera either side of a school pedestrian crossing. Makes sense. But out in the countryside, away from habitation or any particular danger area, is unacceptable - and almost bound to create the kind of backlash we are seeing (burnouts etc). None of them are able to use discretion like a traffic cop might, or catch people doing stupid overtakes etc - which are often more likely to cause an accident than just speeding per se.
It shouldn't stop you visiting France, in just the same way as the massive number of cameras in the UK is no reason to boycott britain. But on a bike, you just have to plan your tour a bit better, take more time over it so that you can avoid A-routes and N-roads, and concentrate on riding all those lovely twisty mountain passes and river valley D-roads that are such a pleasure in France, and which generally have far fewer cameras.
Or just get one of those flip-up number plates....
