Thread: Speed cameras axed over funding
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Old 26-07-2010, 00:13   #11
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Re: Speed cameras axed over funding
Seems a strange decision to make in the present economic climate, I can remember reading that in 2003 over £120 million was raised in fines, either this total has fallen as the years have passed in which case they have served there purpose, or this government is taking them off our roads for short term political gain.
Either way I don't see why cameras are being removed on mass, if this is true, because surely this will result in motorists increasing their speed.
Nobody wants a speeding ticket obviously, but all this will do is ensure that drivers will be less concerned over their speed knowing full well there isn't a speed camera about to catch them.
Also I wonder where the revenue local councils would have collected from cameras will now come from?...council tax rise?
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