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I wonder what effects this would have on the local bird populations

dazc 4y ago
Not a good one, I imagine. My drive to work each morning involves travelling on a stretch of rural road which is about 6 miles long with no boundaries stopping animals such as cows, horses and donkeys wandering into the path of speeding cars. The limit is 40mph but it's mostly ignored. As a consequence, around 40 such beasts are killed each year because the majority of people believe their need to drive at 20% above any given limit (for no other reason than satisfying their fragile egos) outweighs the lives and welfare of innocent animals. So who's going to care less for the lives of a few birds when delivery of random crap from amazon is given priority?
- will0 4y ago
- gadders 4y ago
  This is in the UK?
  - dazc 4y ago
    Yes https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19642710.speed-camera-campaign-roger-penny-way-new-forest/ https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19642710.speed-camera-campa...
    - gadders 4y ago
      Ah - slightly more rural than my part of the south east. I guess I see one deer every two years run over. The rest of the time it is mostly rabbits and badgers with the occasional fox. Hedgehogs not so much now they are rarer in the UK.
- bowsamic 4y ago
  > majority of people believe their need to drive at 20% above any given limit It’s almost endorsed legally afaik. We were even taught this “rule” at school The insane speeding on tight country roads in the UK is absolutely bizarre. It’s in no way safe but everyone does it. My friends dad died on a motorcycle by riding around country roads too fast. It should really be a 30 limit, even 20 considering the visibility, but people drive at 60, even along single file roads that require you to reverse if you come across an oncoming car
  - julian_t 4y ago
    And at this time of year you're quite likely to meet a house-sized tractor or combine coming round the bend. Those don't hang around either! I'm amazed there aren't a lot more fatal accidents on country roads.
  - 7952 4y ago
    Most roads in the UK were co-opted from farm tracks and never really designed for cars. A lot of the grading of roads is just wishful thinking and not linked to the engineering specification of the road. And people are constantly surprised that the road they have spent the last ten years driving to work on is not an eight lane freeway.
- 7952 4y ago
  People will selectively care a lot about animals. Just look at how may people become bird lovers when they want to stop a wind turbine.
rwmj 4y ago
Nothing because it's a nonsense government press release "project" that will likely never happen, and if it does happen it won't be because politicians helped in any way.

dazc 4y ago

Not a good one, I imagine. My drive to work each morning involves travelling on a stretch of rural road which is about 6 miles long with no boundaries stopping animals such as cows, horses and donkeys wandering into the path of speeding cars. The limit is 40mph but it's mostly ignored. As a consequence, around 40 such beasts are killed each year because the majority of people believe their need to drive at 20% above any given limit (for no other reason than satisfying their fragile egos) outweighs the lives and welfare of innocent animals. So who's going to care less for the lives of a few birds when delivery of random crap from amazon is given priority?

will0 4y ago
gadders 4y ago
This is in the UK?
- dazc 4y ago
  Yes https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19642710.speed-camera-campaign-roger-penny-way-new-forest/ https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19642710.speed-camera-campa...
  - gadders 4y ago
    Ah - slightly more rural than my part of the south east. I guess I see one deer every two years run over. The rest of the time it is mostly rabbits and badgers with the occasional fox. Hedgehogs not so much now they are rarer in the UK.
bowsamic 4y ago
> majority of people believe their need to drive at 20% above any given limit It’s almost endorsed legally afaik. We were even taught this “rule” at school The insane speeding on tight country roads in the UK is absolutely bizarre. It’s in no way safe but everyone does it. My friends dad died on a motorcycle by riding around country roads too fast. It should really be a 30 limit, even 20 considering the visibility, but people drive at 60, even along single file roads that require you to reverse if you come across an oncoming car
- julian_t 4y ago
  And at this time of year you're quite likely to meet a house-sized tractor or combine coming round the bend. Those don't hang around either! I'm amazed there aren't a lot more fatal accidents on country roads.
- 7952 4y ago
  Most roads in the UK were co-opted from farm tracks and never really designed for cars. A lot of the grading of roads is just wishful thinking and not linked to the engineering specification of the road. And people are constantly surprised that the road they have spent the last ten years driving to work on is not an eight lane freeway.
7952 4y ago
People will selectively care a lot about animals. Just look at how may people become bird lovers when they want to stop a wind turbine.

rwmj 4y ago

Nothing because it's a nonsense government press release "project" that will likely never happen, and if it does happen it won't be because politicians helped in any way.