Johnnytheboy wrote:
OK, let's get the ball rolling on the research. I suggest anyone that has anything to add (corrections, numbers, dates, etc.) copies & pastes this and edits as appropriate.
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Swindon - all 3 (?) fixed cameras turned off a year ago. Gatsos bagged.
Somerset - 9/26 fixed cameras binned - Farrington Gurney, Prestleigh, Chilcompton, Green Ore, Binegar, East Brent, East Lyng, Lympsham, Creech Castle
Dorset - £346000 cut in funding proposed (carried out?)
Norfolk - proposing cuts
Oxford - all 72 fixed cameras and mobiles to go
Thames Valley - ???
Buckinghamshire (covered by the above?) - 'to follow Oxfordshire's lead'. Some cameras switched off, won't say which.
Northamptonshire - 8/42 fixed cameras turned off
Nottinghamshire - new camera plans axed
South West - 'No speed cameras will operate in the South West next year' unless extra funding. 'Plans have therefore been made to wind up the.. Safety Camera Partnership by March 2011'
Wiltshire - The Wiltshire and Swindon Camera Safety Partnership (i.e. all fixed cameras and mobiles) to go in the autumn
Derby - 3 fixed cameras (Burton Road, Nottingham Road and a third near the Bridge Inn in Shelton Lock) have been taken out of use, 17 under review.
Bedfordshire, Suffolk and Derbyshire - launched reviews
Essex - reviewing sites on a site by site basis.
Warwickshire -as per my post above -
Leicester -think they said ,"NO WAY" .( I.E nnot being removed etc)
Warwickshire - THE USE of speed cameras in Warwickshire is under review following cuts in Government funding( Cov Evening Telegraph)
Coventry & West Mids -But the West Midlands Casualty Reduction Scheme, which is responsible for speed cameras in Coventry and the rest of the region, is not set to follow suit, just yet( Coventry Evening Telegraph)
mORE ON HERE -http://www.safespeed.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=22941