Less scameras?
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Puggit

Original Poster:

49,832 posts

279 months

Tuesday 8th January 2008
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Anyone else noticed that there are less scameras about?

I live in TVP area, and the vans don't seem to be in their normal hideouts.

Drove down to the end of the M4 and back Sunday/Monday - I didn't see a single scamera in S Wales or Wiltshire...

I have the latest pocketgps database on my tomtom, and some of the static cameras in S Wales were missing also.

The only van that is still where it always is, is the one above the A46 as you're heading North to Coventry!

ATG

23,855 posts

303 months

Tuesday 8th January 2008
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Less scameras? LESS scameras??? FEWER scameras. What is this, ing Tesco?

blueyes

4,799 posts

283 months

Tuesday 8th January 2008
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Noticed fewer in S.Wales.

Might have something to do with the money now being given directly to the councils to spend on "road safety"


Council bloke: Hmmm let's see. £1m. Right that's £900,000 to top up our budget (we'll pretend we spent it on the roads) and £100,000 for the camera boys.


Peter Ward

2,097 posts

287 months

Tuesday 8th January 2008
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I drove around 800 miles over Christmas/New Year and saw no vans and only 1 marked police car during all that time. I presume it was due to it being holiday time and cold, so nobody wanted to earn overtime sitting in cold vans.

I could also surmise that very few KSIs happen over Christmas and New Year so there is no need to enforce the speed limits that completely prevent them. But I won't.

esselte

14,626 posts

298 months

Tuesday 8th January 2008
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blueyes said:
Noticed fewer in S.Wales.

Might have something to do with the money now being given directly to the councils to spend on "road safety"


Council bloke: Hmmm let's see. £1m. Right that's £900,000 to top up ourpension (we'll pretend we spent it on the roads) and £100,000 for the camera boys.
EFA...

Boosted LS1

21,200 posts

291 months

Tuesday 8th January 2008
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Definately less of them about. I hardly ever see them locally in their usual hauntssmile

Lostusernamedamn

4,364 posts

237 months

Tuesday 8th January 2008
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esselte said:
blueyes said:
Noticed fewer in S.Wales.

Might have something to do with the money now being given directly to the councils to spend on "road safety"


Council bloke: Hmmm let's see. £1m. Right that's £900,000 to top up ourpension (we'll pretend we spent it on the roads) and £100,000 for the camera boys.
EFA...
Yep, their pensions are costing us a fortune - they take a very big chunk of our council tax too. rage