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The Beginning Of The End For Speed Cameras In The UK?
The UK was one of the first to embrace speed cameras, but it looks like things are starting to go in the other direction. Chris Clark points us to a (video) news report from the BBC highlighting how funding is drying up for speed cameras in the UK, and multiple cities have been ditching them (and, by the way, not noticing any increase in accidents or casualties). The video, of course, shows police and other speed camera supporters insisting that speed cameras save lives, and that taking them away will lead to harm... but they don't actually present any evidence. What is clearly presented, however, is that governments are increasingly less willing to fund speed cameras, and most of the money today is for upkeep, rather than installing any more.
They probably don't have a
They probably don't have a split fee arrangement with a private sector running the speed camera operation as we do in the US.
The trend is for more cities in the US to have speed cameras installed to cut their budget deficits, NOT save their citizens.
Fred