If you think that your fines are a bit high, try reading this:
http://www.petting-zoo.net/~deadbeef/archive/4813.html
Roger Key, Copenhagen
>From: "Jez Cunningham" <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: Cell phones/Italy, as far OT as possible
>Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:09:12 +0100
>
>
>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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