Stand and deliver...
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catso

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5,182 posts

269 months

Wednesday 22nd December 2004
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Here! Here! Sounds like a joke but it aint. Let's tell it like it is, Cameras should have masks and cloaks! Drive safe now y'hear!

safespeed

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303 months

Thursday 23rd December 2004
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Eamon Scott issued the following press release:

Speed camera survey "A pack of lies"

A motorists' pressure group has condemned the results of a survey into public attitudes towards speed cameras as one of the most bare-faced fabrications they have ever heard of.

Last week The Tayside Speed Camera Partnership published the results of a survey which they claimed showed that 89% of the public in Tayside supported the use of speed cameras.

This result is in direct conflict with many other, independent surveys, which show a very different picture. A poll conducted by Auto Express Magazine earlier this year registered 37,000 votes and showed 86%
opposed to speed cameras. An RAC/Autocar survey last October found that 47% of drivers would condone the vandalising of speed cameras. And in March this year, Autonational Rescue, a breakdown
services company found that 77% of drivers did not think that speed cameras saved lives or prevented accidents.



Eamon Scott, Tayside Coordinator of the Association of British Drivers, and organiser of the Tayside "Stand and Deliver" campaign said, ?The Tayside Police survey is a joke. Who did they ask ? their own staff
and their families? The questions were loaded so as to only allow one answer, the survey was carried out by their own people and not by an independent polling organisation. At the end of the day, only 200
people responded - hardly a cross-section of the community!



Scott continued "People in Tayside are smarter than that. They know road deaths went up by 37% last year and are set to soar even further this year. They won't fall for this pack of lies.?

A full criticism of the survey has been posted on the new "Stand and deliver" website, on www.safetayside.com .

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