DfT speed camera guidelines branded ‘a disgrace’

01 November 2006

The transport select committee has called for an increase in speed cameras, and slammed existing criteria for implementing the devices.
In its latest report, Roads policing and technology: Getting the right balance, the committee concludes that a more cost-effective measure for reducing speeds and casualties ‘has yet to be introduced’. It said existing Department for Transport guidelines requiring deaths and injuries to have occurred in a location before cameras could be installed were ‘a disgrace’.
Instead, the report recommends flexibility on where and how to employ cameras, especially for rural roads with casualty problems which do not meet speed criteria. It highlights figures showing the chance of survival halves between collisions at 30mph and 35mph. The committee also urges the DfT to explore the possibility of using time-distance cameras to enforce 20mph limits.
Elsewhere, the report warns that roads policing may become increasingly marginalised, especially as resources have been transferred to tackling terrorism. The role of traffic officers ‘must be recognised’, and new technology should not be seen as an alternative.

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