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CAMERA RE-STRUCTURE ONLY SCRATCHES THE SURFACE, IT STILL DOES NOT ADDRESS THE BASIC ISSUES OF ROAD SAFETY
The new proposals will: - leave unaccountable and secretive camera partnerships intact.
- allow the continued use of cameras.
- divert some camera funds for more road markings and signs.
- retain the focus on speed limits, not appropriate speed for the conditions.
There is concern that the DfT continues to focus on speed restriction adherence and mechanistic ways of controlling drivers' behaviour. There is no shred of honest evidence that speed cameras save lives.
They need to be ripped out and attention focused on drivers developing the skills that make drivers safe.
There is also the great concern regarding the distraction effect of cameras on drivers and motorcyclists - a factor which has never been researched.
The government is saying it takes road safety seriously, but they have taken nearly fourteen years to recognise that speed cameras are a simplistic, dangerous, distracting white elephant.
They say driver training and education is too expensive and might be a vote loser - but so is 3,400 people dying on the roads each year. It's time l road safety was thought about seriously.
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