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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!b14g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <6acaf78b-555d-47c6-b454-2b0bf5529be4@b14g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: A Good Day for Proper Road Safety: Swindon Ditches Fixed Speed Cameras Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 00:23:31 -0700 (PDT) Lines: 63 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.193.13 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249111411 22472 127.0.0.1 (1 Aug 2009 07:23:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 07:23:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b14g2000yqd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.193.13; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/2009070611 Firefox/3.0.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 4442 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:721891

Great news for those who really care about road safety: Swindon Borough Council are now going to spend the =A3320,000 that was being spent on speed cameras on real road safety measures instead (and they'll doubtless be the first of many). I can't see how anyone who genuinely cares about road safety would have a problem with that: why make the assumption that speed cameras are the best possible road safety measures that =A3320k could buy, when there's no evidence that that is the case (quite the opposite)?

On the other hand, speed cameras are the most anti-motorist of the "road safety" options that we currently have: could that be the real reason why some people aren't very happy about this development? Why else would they be so vehemently against it, when they don't even know what the =A3320k will be spent on instead yet? They seem incredibly keen to keep speed cameras without exploring *any* other options, and since cameras' road safety record can't possibly be the reason for such keenness, there must be another reason, and "being anti-motorist" is the only thing which makes any sense (well, being anti-motorist doesn't make sense, but you know what I mean).

It's things like this which expose the car-haters who just pretend to care about road safety for what they really are. And there are a lot of them round here. No wonder they're so keen to censor such revelations with their new censored group.

Bloody cameras: why can't they just save lives? Then the motorist scum would just have to put up with them, and would have no excuse to clamour for their removal. It would be so good: imagine all those scumbags being banned, left, right and centre, and being made to step out of their cages. Imagine how much inconvenience that would result in for them. Wouldn't that be great? Serves them right for selfishly putting lives and the environment at risk by speeding around in a polluting ton of metal.

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=3D20365

SWINDON SWITCHES OFF THE 'SCAMERAS'

Borough Council lives up to promise to abandon speed camera funding

Swindon's motorists are today celebrating the demise of the town's five fixed speed cameras as the Conservative council lives up to its pledge to axe them.

The five Swindon cameras - one on Queens Drive and two each on Oxford Road and the A420 - are being removed today and replaced with vehicle activated warning signs.

The cameras have been ditched because the Tory council says they cost Swindon taxpayers =A3320,000 annually to maintain, yet very little of the speeding fine revenues generated were returned to the Borough.

'In Swindon we are developing a reputation for challenging the status quo and being at the forefront of new thinking. Our sole aim is to find new and more effective ways to reduce road accidents within our current budget,' says Tory councillor Peter Greenhalgh.

The move has naturally annoyed the anti-motorist lobby, with the Royal Society For The Prevention Of Accidents and self-appointed 'road safety' lobbyists Brake both condemning the move.

Mobile speed cameras will continue to be employed across Swindon according to Wiltshire's deputy Chief Constable David Ainsworth.