MOTORWAY ROAD WORKS SPEED CAMERAS: LEGALISED EXTORTION
07 August 2005 - Safe Speed

Following Safe Speed''s revelations earlier today that motorway road works speed cameras do nothing to improve safety, motorists will be absolutely livid to learn that they have been fined for no safety benefit.

The TRL report stating with absolute clarity that speed cameras do NOTHING to improve road works safety on motorways was completed over 18 months ago. The Highways agency did not make it public and continued to slap up speed cameras at motorway roadworks sites.

Any member of the public wishing to read the report would have had to pay £40 to do so. Not even a summary has been previously published as far as we can tell. It took a request under the Freedom of Information Act to dig it up.

Paul Smith, founder of the Safe Speed road safety campaign
(www.safespeed.org.uk) said: ''Hundreds of thousands of motorists who have been fined for exceeding the speed limit in roadworks in the last 18 months are going to be livid. The Highways Agency knew that cameras did nothing for safety - all they have been doing is spreading misery and raising revenue. These cameras are legalised extortion - no more and no less.''

''This has to stop and it has to stop now. Speed cameras do nothing for safety. The official claims are bunk. But far worse than that, those claims cause live-saving resources to be misallocated and cause extra deaths indirectly.''

''How dare they keep this information hidden for 18 months. Since the Freedom of Information Act came into force the wheels are coming off the speed camera bandwagon. The abuses of information are outrageous and heads must roll.''

www.safespeed.org.uk

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