POLL: Is it time to scrap the speed cameras?
7:32am Thu 8th Oct 09:: written by Justin Burns
Speed cameras in the Royal Borough could be abolished after an independent report set to go before councillors branded them 'Â ineffective'.
A report by a Slough electronics engineer commissioned by the ruling Tory party says that the 33 cameras in the borough, do not help reduce road safety or reduce the number of accidents.
It also claims an increase in the number of serious injuries at camera sites and no reduction in the number of deaths, based on data from April 1990 to March 2009.
Yesterday the Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership said findings from its own studay show cameras still have a part to play in improving road safety.
Royal borough officers are currently carrying out thier own assessment of sites for hte next cabient meeting on Thursday, October 22 at Woodlands Park Village Centre, in White Waltham.
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- Getting rid of the cameras is a great idea. Everyone knows where they are and just slows down and then speeds up when they pass.
- The money the council gives to these partnerships could be better spent on other road safety schemes - cameras are just another tax. Well done for common sense!
- About time too. Keep them around schools etc, but lets see a bit of enforcement of the law regarding using a phone while driving, and target the un-lisenced/ un-insured / and the clearly unroadworthy vehicles.
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