Haulage firms will welcome speed camera activity decline
Date: 23 July 2007
Figures in MCN (Motorcycle News) show that the amount of speed camera activity has declined this year compared to last year, which will be welcome news for haulage companies.
Nine counties that responded to freedom of information requests by MCN showed that mobile speed cameras were deployed for 19 per cent fewer hours in June 2007 than in the same month a year before.
Critics argue that speed cameras are the wrong way to promote road safety, often unfairly penalising drivers, including haulage drivers, who may have been driving perfectly safely.
Paul Smith, the founder of road safety group Safe Speed, welcomed the MCN findings but said that more needed to be done.
"So it looks like speed cameras are finally fading away," he said. "That's good, but it's nowhere near good enough. The decline of speed cameras will be a relief to motorists, but it is essential to road safety that we scrap speed cameras - with considerably ceremony - if we are to start to shift the dangerously false road safety dogma that supports them."
He added that the reduction in speed camera activity was a result of the Department for Transport losing confidence in the technology.
"Speed cameras have failed as a road safety policy," he said. "We must scrap the lot and move on to policies that will actually save lives on our roads."
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