Just to get your juices flowing:

[Streetcop]

A small number of figures to show you how speed cameras haven't saved enough lives:

Year Speed Camera Fixed Penalties & Prosecutions

(Scale 1:10000) Fatalities (Scale 1:30)
1995 206,900 3,213
1996 262,200 3,240
1997 336,700 3,222
1998 403,800 3,036
1999 498,600 3,113
2000 699,400 3,084
2001 1,014,600 3,096
2002 1,411,300 3,127
2003/4 Fixed Penalties too many to list on broadband alone..

Keep calm ...

Street

[mybrainhurts]

Yes...I don't know how govt can keep a straight face when it says that fixed penalties are expected to rise to 5 million pa, then level off forever.

If they're not going to fall, how can cameras be reducing speeds?

[Streetcop]

It's like anything else really...If the government of the day want such a thing...then that's what it'll get...

Democracy has brought the current government into power and it's the democratic vote that must get them out...

Sorry to be political again..

Street