Speed camera cuts backed by Oxfordshire council

[jackass]

Shouldn't be the worst thing. Where I live, there are none, and in my nearest city, I don't recall ever seeing TOO many of them.

[MrPinkPanther]

With a nice flask of nettle tea whilst reading Polly Toynbee I presume?

Browsing the Internet on my iPhone actually....don't worry your pretty little head, Apple have gone green.

Swindon banned speed cameras a few years ago. We've had no crash rise since then.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...nd/8636654.stm

[Blob]

Swindon haven't have any for ages

[Frodo13.]

Speed cameras are useless. All you have to do is slow down when you approach one, speed again once you've passed. What our roads do need to tackle speeding is a increased police presence.

[RedStratocas]

hmm i guess i cant really weigh in too much on this one since i don't know much of the u.k. roads past my bit of experience with them last year. however i know here in the u.s., there are several states which have installed cameras on highways in years past and have touted pretty significant drops in overall car-crash fatalities, from 10 to 20% sometimes even more. i think its pretty worth it, and even though i dont really understand the logic behind the mentality (i thought most drivers had the mentality that they'll never crash), it seems to work. some people argue it's an invasion of privacy but i dont see how that is, since a highway is a very public place, and the cameras can't see anything more than what a police officer or anyone else in the area can see.

although i believe these states are ones with long, wide-open highways, and are thus prone to people thinking they can just breeze through them at 110mph. so again, its probably just a matter of the type of road.

[Moh]

They need to place speed cameras in much better places. We have one on a slip road (that is 40mph) to a motorway (that is 70mph). The whole point of a slip road (well, an entrance) is to gain speed.

It's funny how they don't put them on red roads where there are a lot of accidents isn't it?

[Tintinnabulate]

Well the statistics do not show that they have an effect at all because as I am sure we all know, people slow down near the camera (where the lines on the road start) and speed up again after passing the camera. Some statistics in here (cannot find source, sure there will be more around net) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...ull-lucky.html

The fact they are not scrapping the ones which make the most money surely tells you that the entire point of them is money, not safety as they preach on about.



With a nice flask of nettle tea whilst reading Polly Toynbee I presume?

I thought you were all for punishing law breakers? They break the law, get caught, pay the fine, increase their funds.

[MrPinkPanther]

I thought you were all for punishing law breakers? They break the law, get caught, pay the fine, increase their funds.

Oh no. You've got him all wrong. He's all for complaining about everything that happens in this country just like the rest of UKIP.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I thought you were all for punishing law breakers? They break the law, get caught, pay the fine, increase their funds.

There are important laws, less important laws and laws that do not matter at all - i'd much rather the police go after real criminals such as the ones who roam around on sink estates than go after the easy target which is the motorist.

Oh no. You've got him all wrong. He's all for complaining about everything that happens in this country just like the rest of UKIP.

I have always been against cameras and so are UKIP, the evidence show cameras have nothing to do with safety.

What is so hard to understand about that?

Although hey if we are to get into party politics which you seem determined to do;

Liberal Democrats support mass immigration, UKIP do not.
Liberal Democrats support a federal Europe, UKIP do not.
Liberal Democrats advocate weak crime laws, UKIP do not.
Liberal Democrats want higher taxes thus hurting the economy, UKIP do not.
Liberal Democrats wish to scrap our vital nuclear defence system, UKIP do not.

So faced against those policies which the main parties often strive towards, is it any wonder that we moan and is it any reason that most people don't even bother to vote at all? no, I didn't think so.

[alexxxxx]

there should be some in areas where they are needed. but you shouldnt break the limit anyway, it's 30 for a reason.