As seen in a New York Times article on British speed enforcement cameras and the vandalism thereof:
“It’s incredibly difficult to get to people to come to terms with slowing down here,” said Francis Ashton, the road safety manager for the city of Nottingham. “In the States, you have much slower speed limits, and there’s more of a culture of sticking to the speed limit.”
“There’s more of a culture of sticking to the speed limit”?!
It wasn’t all that long ago when there was so much disdain for speed limits that speeding ticket fines in one state were only $5, payable to the officer.
Considering what the “culture of sticking to the speed limit” looks like on I-91 north of Hartford, or on the street in front of my house (posted as 30mph, usually driven at 50mph), I shudder to think what it must be like to drive in England if that really is true.