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SURVEY SAYS MAJORITY PREFER CAMERAS, DESPITE CONTROVERSY
09:30 - 06 April 2004
Love them or hate them, speed cameras have proved to be one of the most controversial topics in the Evening Telegraph during the past year.
As the number of speed cameras on our roads increases - there are currently 101 in Derbyshire - motorists have felt they are becoming persecuted.
Back in May last year, hundreds of motorists complained about the use of speed cameras on Raynesway during roadworks. Confusion arose when a temporary 30mph speed limit was imposed on the road, normally a 50mph zone.
Derbyshire police agreed not to fine those caught out after a catalogue of complaints.
In June, a police safety camera van, of which there are four operating in Derbyshire, was spotted illegally parked in the region on two occasions.
So it caused some surprise in October when a Derbyshire Safety Camera Partnership survey showed that 86 per cent of 10,000 people were in favour of the cameras.
Some cameras have proved so unpopular that people have resorted to vandalising them.
A brand new Truvelo camera, worth £40,000, was set alight in Nottingham Road last month.
It followed three similar incidents in Long Eaton since November.