Speed Camera Signs?

[raceboy]

Whats the score with speed camera warning signs even when the nearest camera is about 5 miles away?
I know signs are cheeper than cameras but I thought part of the new 'rules' about camera colour, location, etc, meant you couldn't put signs up if there was no camera.
If anyone has any links to the actual rules, and the aeras that have bought into this pop them up here, then when I've got the facts the local paper is getting a letter

[jmorgan]

I thought the distance and colour etc only applies to the camera's where some money goes back to the council that operates the one eyed bandit.

[jmorgan]

Interesting. Page 10 para K.
www.roads.dft.gov.uk/roadsafety/rtspeed/pdf/cm5621.pdf

[raceboy]

For some reason my PC tries to open that in 'Paint' and so I can't see it, any chance of it being copied on to here?

[jmorgan]

Try this way maybe?
www.roads.dft.gov.uk/roadsafety/rtspeed/index.htm
Top link. Its protected so can't cut and paste.

[jmorgan]

After a little playing

(k) The new rules about the visibility and location of cameras are
unreasonable. Crashes do not just occur at accident blackspots. There was no
scienti•c research to support this decision. People will die as a result. Police
and local authorities should decide where to locate cameras and whether they
should be visible. Their decisions should be informed by pilot projects to (1)
test whether safety cameras should be overt or covert and (2) identify a
series of locations other than severe accident blackspots where the speed of
traf•c needs to be reduced. The Department of Health should be on the
Project Board for the Safety Camera Scheme to ensure that public health
issues are fully taken into account in the decisions that it makes.
The key to camera enforcement as a road safety tool that can treat excessive
but not inappropriate speed is to make best use of the resources available in a
step by step process. The •rst thing to do is identify the most dangerous places
10

[raceboy]

Still having no joy with the pdf think, must learn how to use a PC one day
Simple question then, is it against the hypothecation rules to have a sign and no camera in a location that has bought into the scheme?

[soulpatch]

Raceboy - download adobe acrobat reading from www.adobe.com

That will allow you to open that (and any other) PDF file.

Soulpatch