North Somerset Council the local authority who govern the town of Swindon have decided to pull their funding out of the local safety camera partnership. At present they contribute £400,000 to the scheme which operates a number of fixed and mobile speed traps in the city. They have decided that the money would be better [...]

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Lothian and Borders safety camera partnership have followed their Yorkshire colleagues in an attempt to poll viewers of their web site on the effectiveness of speed cameras. In fact, we chose to write this article today while the poll was still live because much like the Yorkshire poll there is a huge majority No vote. [...]

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The Yorkshire safety camera partnership, or casualty reduction partnership, as they like to be called, have pulled a poll off of their website because most of the votes on the poll were not in favor of speed cameras. The poll was initially put up on their website and asked for a yes, no or [...]

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