Todays Daily Mail (page 15)

[V6GTO]

Today Micheal Howard has pledged to rip out all cameras that are placed to raise cash and not to save lives.I will be voting Tory next time but if thay get in I will not hold my breath.
In the meantime, Mr Howard, if you know we are beeing fleeced why are you not publicly shafting Tony Blair about it at Prime Ministers Question Time?

( sorry to repeat this from another thread but it deserves a proper airing )

[apache]

That'll be all of them then..........no? surprise surprise.
Good to see the subject has become a vote winner eventually. Idris, Paul, ABD and all the others who fought and harangued their mps, wrote to the press and generally kicked up a fuss take a bow, it was not in vain.

[Roadrage]

YEA RIGHT.


there jusdt dclare them all well sited and carry on colecting the cash.

once you dumb lot vote em in

[deltaf]

Roadrage said:

YEA RIGHT. there jusdt dclare them all well sited and carry on colecting the cash. once you dumb lot vote em in

Agree with what youre sayin outlaw.
Cant trust any of em...they can all go jump off the pier as far as im concerned.

[XM5ER]

And the criteria for which scamera is which, will be what?

[icamm]

deltaf said:

Roadrage said: YEA RIGHT. there jusdt dclare them all well sited and carry on colecting the cash. once you dumb lot vote em in Agree with what youre sayin outlaw. Cant trust any of em...they can all go jump off the pier as far as im concerned.

Yep, agreement here as well.

Haven't Labour just started a review in which they have so far managed to find no cameras wrongly sited?

[Peter Ward]

According to the BBC website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3514747.stm) quoted in the "Speed Cams to be Cut in London thread" (www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?f=10&h=&t=83475):

BBC said:

... Shadow transport secretary Damian Green has called for a national audit of cameras. He wants to know which are necessary for road safety and which appear to be used for raising money. He said: "I'm delighted that the Metropolitan Commissioner has responded so quickly and sensibly to the misuse of speed cameras. "Conservatives think they should only be used for road safety, not as a silent tax collector for Gordon Brown." A spokeswoman for the Department of Transport told BBC News Online: "We are clear that cameras should only be used where there is a history of accidents. "Cameras are there to save lives and change driver behaviour, they are not there to raise money. "We recently wrote to all partnerships for assurance that all cameras are where they should be and early indications are that they are."

In that thread I accused the Tories of saying that they are where they should be. However, the quote was missing some detail. It seems that it's the DfT. So perhaps there is hope that something might change under Howard?

[jeffreyarcher]

V6GTO said:

In the meantime, Mr Howard, if you know we are beeing fleeced why are you not publicly shafting Tony Blair about it at Prime Ministers Question Time?

Because the Prime Minister would point out in reply, on national television, that it was the Tories who introduced speed cameras and Michael Howard, in particular, as Home Secretary, who introduced Section 172. I.e. unless you 'fess up, we will prosecute you for that instead.