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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:35 
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Coventry Telegraph here
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Speed camera funding slashed for county
Apr 27 2011

FUNDING for Warwickshire speed cameras has been slashed drastically – despite council claims they have helped cut deaths and injuries.

A £1.2 million grant for speed camera enforcement has been axed under government cuts. Just £250,000 has now been
allocated in the county council’s budget.

The funding cut means that although there will be the same number of fixed speed camera sites, they will not all be switched on at the same time and the number of mobile vans has been cut from six to three. These will focus on the sites with the worst casualty history.

The budget cuts have also reduced the funding available for other measures that can address speeding such as safety schemes, education, training and publicity. Some road safety services are now being charged for and others utilise volunteers.

Cash for speed camera enforcement will now come from Warwickshire County Council’s revenue and surplus from running speed awareness workshops (SAWs), aimed at educating less “serious” speeders.

Road safety charity Brake has campaigned furiously against the funding cuts.

Ellen Booth, Brake’s campaigns officer, said the bottom line wasn’t money, it was “life and death.”
“When people talk about speed cameras being a ‘cash cow’ they entirely miss the point,” she said.
“Speed tickets are issued to people who break the law. Speeding is a criminal and deadly offence and deserves to be punished.
“Fixed speed cameras continue to be an invaluable – and economic – safety resource that slow traffic down and reduce the numbers of people killed and injured on our roads.”

The council says deaths and serious injuries on Warwickshire’s roads have more than halved over the past decade – from 639 in 2001 to 301 last year.
Despite the cuts, the council says it will be able to maintain its good track record of reducing casualties.

Councillor Richard Hobbs, portfolio holder for community protection, said: “Making Warwickshire a safer place to live remains a key priority of the county council and road safety forms an important element of our work in this area.
“Our policy of targeting resources to prevent the greatest number of casualties and create the safest road network possible has served us well with serious and fatal casualties reducing faster than the national average and government targets.
“However, as we confront the biggest spending challenge the county council has ever had, we need to review the way we deploy our available resources to ensure we continue to deliver the greatest possible road safety benefits for Warwickshire’s road users and communities.”

Warwickshire County Council’s communities overview and scrutiny committee will discuss all speed reduction options – including speed cameras, vehicle activated signs, SAWs, community-based initiatives, lower speed limits, education and traffic calming – when it meets tomorrow (Thursday).
They really must learn how the economy effects the volume of traffic and how that effects all of the road safety issues.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 17:53 
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Just had a brilliant idea. Why don't Brake sponsor speed cameras out of all that money that their "sponsors and supporters", (the government partly) give to them?
Every Speed camera could have their name emblazened on it, in large letters....BRAKE!...and seeing as a large proportion of motorists do exactly that when they see a speed camera, they could actually claim to have done something positive for a change... :lol:

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ws looking for the camera decline post but couldn't find it .However although Warks are pleading poverty they've managed to replace the camera which self destructed last year ( I posted on the incident at the time) .How much do they reckon a Monitron costs ?
Waiting for the next comedy .Nuneaton looks like joining the latest list of councils to decrim parking .But since this will be done by non police parking attendants it looks like the appeals process will be busy unless Warks ( as the highway authority) repaints the vast majority of yellow lines .Very few seem to meet the roadsigns requirement .

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