Talkback: Speed camera sites increase since 2010

Come and visit the Netherlands...

Oh hi.

http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news--general-news/budgets-cut-speed-cameras-axed/17561.html

http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news--general-news/somerset-speed-cameras-face-axe-in-2011/16496.html

So are these just dummy cameras then?
Lets build more, but not use them....

It would be likely to save MORE lives by posting the safest possible speed limits. Limits set at the 85th percentile speed of free flowing traffic under good conditions almost always result in the safest and smoothest traffic flow with the fewest accidents. On average, this will set most speed limits 10 mph higher than currently and safety will improve.

Britain used 85th percentile methods until about 20 years ago when under posted limits plus speed cameras and the millions of pounds of revenue to be raised took precedence over safety. Money trumped safety.

See the website of the Association of British Drivers www.abd.org.uk and our website for more information. James C. Walker, National Motorists Association, www.motorists.org, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA (frequent visitor to the UK to see family in West Yorkshire)

The rumour they're all turned off was probably put around by the police/camera partnership to trap more speeders!
I've noticed recently there are more of them that are spray painted and burnt out and a few have been rotated so they face the wrong way.
Money boxes are all they are. Smash 'em all!

From the BBC website in May 2012:

Average speed cameras are to be installed in Bedfordshire in a new move by the local authority to make drivers slow down.

Bedford Borough Council will install the cameras which record average speeds between numerous locations.

The units cost £25,000 each and £260,000 has been allocated for the first phase.

Mayor Dave Hodgson said the council was "committed to real action to bring speeds down".
'Major concern'

"We will introduce average speed cameras, rather than the fixed sites where some drivers simply slow down for the camera," he said.

The council is introducing the new cameras after receiving approval from the Department of Transport to use them on highways.

The cameras read number plates and their wireless communication system means they can be mounted on existing lampposts.

Councillor Hodgson said the cameras were being introduced after residents had repeatedly told the council that speeding in local neighbourhoods was a "major concern".

The cameras will be installed first in Milton Ernest.