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UK is £10k per-hour speed camera king but does plan to step up the spread of cameras show cash means more than casualties?

Announcement – 11:35 am

Revelations by the Audit Office add fuel to an increasingly heated debate about the value of speed cameras and lower limits to the critical task of cutting UK road casualties. Latest figures show that the Treasury gains £10,000 per hour everyday from speed camera PCNs, and that the number of cameras in Britain has trebled […]

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Emotions swamp objectivity as 50mph national limits herald a “sign of civilisation”, “fascist proposal” or “Greens’ plot”

– 11:45 am

Emotions swamp objectivity again over the intensely contentious issue-mix of speed limits, money-making cameras and ‘improving road safety’. The latest blasts of emotively charged claims, reactions and ‘news’ are sparked by the government’s plan to lower the national speed limit from 60 to 50 mph. Roads safety Minister, Jim Fitzpatrick is “sure that the vast […]

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