Speed camera cuts 'mean disaster'
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Who would dream up such a dumb headline, the BBC of course.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10755509
"Campaigners have said it would be a "disaster" if council cuts in England and Wales mean speed cameras are scrapped.
Oxfordshire County Council is switching off its 72 speed cameras after funding for its road safety partnership was cut by £600,000."
Yippee!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10755509
"Campaigners have said it would be a "disaster" if council cuts in England and Wales mean speed cameras are scrapped.
Oxfordshire County Council is switching off its 72 speed cameras after funding for its road safety partnership was cut by £600,000."
Yippee!
WhoseGeneration said:
The answer to all this is to have drivers properly trained to drive our roads.
Most are not, not able to consider or plan their driving.
Speed cameras were never the solution.
Intelligent traffic policing could be.
You mean like take those drivers off the motorways that do 45mph in the slow lane causing havoc for all the other users?Most are not, not able to consider or plan their driving.
Speed cameras were never the solution.
Intelligent traffic policing could be.
And a cut to climate change funding means disaster too apparently, it's simply pressure-groups who make lots of money on the back of government lies worried about losing their positions in the money-making trough.
I cannot wait to see the camera-partnership workers trying to organise strikes and protests over their jobs
I cannot wait to see the camera-partnership workers trying to organise strikes and protests over their jobs
sjn2004 said:
You mean like take those drivers off the motorways that do 45mph in the slow lane causing havoc for all the other users?
There is no "slow lane".Go and read your copy of the Highway Code.
I would agree that properly trained drivers would not, except depending upon their vehicle (some large vehicles cannot drive any faster) and any particular specific circumstances, drive at such a speed on any motorway.
However, there is no minimum speed defined, perhaps there should be.
My problem is that, unlike past times I can remember, it has become hard to know the true limits. Time was, driving sensibly, a steady true 90mph on motorways, conditions permitting, would not have resulted in being "pulled" by a Traffic Officer observing such a speed.
That is intelligent policing.
Have a look on the Brake website and read the emotional letter sent to every council imloring them not to cut camera funding. The facts are without a cause there are lots of charities who will have to lose staff and funding comes from all over the place, again just look at the list of sponsers to the Brake casue where would they be without them.
We have had years of "Speed Kills" and "cameras are there not for profit but safety" and yet once the money is taken from the councils coffers there are now better ways.
Where would Brake rather makes cuts in the difficult times, oh yes, any where but what they are lobbying for.
We have had years of "Speed Kills" and "cameras are there not for profit but safety" and yet once the money is taken from the councils coffers there are now better ways.
Where would Brake rather makes cuts in the difficult times, oh yes, any where but what they are lobbying for.
oyster said:
I thought the whole point of the SCPs was that they were self-funding? That the fines from cameras went to pay for the cameras and staff to run the SCPs?
If they were always being supported by other money then have we been lied to?
Labour changed the rules on funding fairly recently. They decided to ask the councils to carry on funding the SCPs, without letting the SCPs recycle the cash, but taking the cash directly back to government instead.If they were always being supported by other money then have we been lied to?
Weird...
WhoseGeneration said:
The answer to all this is to have drivers properly trained to drive our roads.
Most are not, not able to consider or plan their driving.
Speed cameras were never the solution.
Intelligent traffic policing could be.
This Most are not, not able to consider or plan their driving.
Speed cameras were never the solution.
Intelligent traffic policing could be.
Many people are 'qualified' to drive i.e. they have a license - yet they are so horribly unaware of just what they are in control (or not!) of.
[Broken record]There is no camera to measure sheer incompetence and blatant inconsideration for the safety of others[/Broken record]
Wholesale changes to people's driving attitudes AND a test which truly proves this is needed.
But it won't...
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