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TRAFFIC CALMING PLAN IS CAR-AZY
ASCOTTISH road safety group are horrified by plans in Doncaster to recruit members of the public to use their cars for "mobile traffic calming", labelling the idea "mad".
Doncaster's Road Safety Education Unit has come up with the idea of "community pace cars", where the public display stickers showing they are registered "community pace cars".
The theory is: "By driving within the speed limit you will be performing a mobile traffic calming role, keeping the overall speed of traffic following you at the speed limit."
Paul Smith, founder of the Scotland-based Safe Speed campaign, said: "Road safety works best when drivers co-operate together and adjust their speed to suit the hazard environment but Doncaster's mad scheme seeks to undermine both of those principles.
"Just imagine the chaos caused by a Doncaster-style pace car at 70mph in lane three of a UK motorway."
The Association of British Drivers also slammed the scheme. Policy director Mark McArthur-Christie said: "The speed limit is not a safe speed.
This sends the message that all drivers have to do to be safe is stick to the limit. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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