M4 scamera protest planned

Time for a protest against oppression of the motorist

Cameras on the bridge

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There's going to be a protest about soon sparked by the M4's new speed cameras in Wiltshire.

It is planned that a protest convoy will leave Membury services M4 westbound at 10:00 on Saturday 30 April, and drive along the motorway to junction 17 (the other side of Wiltshire). Another convoy may leave Leigh Delamere services eastbound at the same time.

This is the weekend before the general election, so is your chance to pay back the government for all the anti-car nonsense they have enforced on us over the last eight years.

The media are bound to be there in force, and are likely to video the gathering at the services beforehand, so print some of the speed camera signs from the ABD website and display them in your car, make them into banners, make up your own banners.

When in the convoy, put your lights on and wave at any TV crews you see, make it clear to the powers that be that drivers are not going to tolerate speed cameras on motorways.

If you don't want to join the convoy itself, there are over a dozen bridges over the M4 betweens junctions 14 and 17 where you could show your support with banners and flags.

The organiser, M4 Protest, said it hoped this action will show the driving public's dissatisfaction with speed cameras in the run up to the general election, and show that safe driving is too complex to be measured simply in miles per hour.

Campaign founder, Robin Summerhill said, "After £700 million pounds of speed camera fines, road deaths are going up, yet the greedy camera partnerships simply keep expanding, placing more and more cameras. The motoring public is at breaking point and something has to give. I believe it is important that the entire ethos of speed cameras in the UK is re-examined from the very foundations."

Robin said, " We've been running for less than 24 hours and already the response is amazing. I hope drivers and riders will turn out in big numbers on the day. Speed cameras are an issue that affects road users everywhere. Let's hope that the politicians get the message - we're not going to stand for it any more."

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