Speedcam to net £1.3m a year - and it's not about safety

Darren

A controversial speed camera site in Poole, Dorset has been catching 1,800 motorists every month, that is a total income of over £1.3m a year.

The speed camera on Holes Bay road was one of the Monitron red-light cameras converted into dual purpose red-light/speed enforcement cameras last year as we forewarned here.

The speed camera is cynically placed at a spot where the dual-carriageway speed limit reduces to 30mph and has been installed despite official accident figures that show there have been no fatalities in over 10 years.

Perhaps we can now ask that they stop calling them 'Safety Cameras' and admit that they are, as many of us suspect, simply another income stream.

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NickG · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:45 am Post subject:

The camera should be clearly marked with this new logo I've designed:

Guivre46 · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:34 am Post subject:

Perhaps it could also display the amount of income it is generating in real time?

I'm just appalled at this undermining of the safety ethos. The best way is 1) give information about hazards/restrictions in good time, 2) encourage the less responsible to co-operate (clearly marked camera), 3) take action to remove the non-cooperative from the roads (any method you can think of).
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hpyatt · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 06, 2006 Posts: 5

Can you please publicise as much as possible the speed camera system they have in Portugal, where they really are concerned with safety and not profit. There the speed cameras are linked to a pedestrian crossing 200m further on. If you break the limit the crossing changes to red - both ways - for 45 seconds thus ensuring that all traffic slows down. Ths first time I did it, not understanding the warning signs placed 100m before the zone, I could feel the eyes of the driver going the other way boring into me in anger for having stopped him too. The system works and does not raise one cent in income for the authorities.

It is important that all politicians , local and national, learn and understand that that is a systems of spped controll all motorists would agree and comply with.

BigPerk · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:39 am Post subject:

aj2052 · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 11:52 pm Post subject:

We must be lucky in our neck of the woods:

Darren · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:21 am Post subject: Re: Speed Cameras

clpxm39 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 25, 2010 Posts: 1

It's clearly labelled 30 though, and the camera is several hundred yards further on.

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:24 pm Post subject:

About 180 yards actually.

Coming from the 50 limit, if you were distracted and only spotted the signs as you passed them, that gives you about 7.4 seconds to decelerate before you reach the camera (by my dodgy maths!).

Darren · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:56 pm Post subject:

Another issue is drivers take many varied visual clues into account when calculating the correct speed to drive at (in the absence of signage).

Yes, that's like the drop from 70 down to 50 on the A40 at Northolt Aerodrome. There's no apparent reason for it, and a Monitron camera just a couple of hundred yards after it.

Even if you begin to slow down gently as soon as you see the sign you are in danger of still being over the limit when you reach the camera. Therefore there is a lot of panic braking, which CAN'T be safe on a major road.
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Guivre46 · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:23 am Post subject:

..and the milking of motorists continues:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/7894598/Motorists-face-huge-hike-in-fines-to-fund-victims.html
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