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News: Welcome to North Wales - GoSafe say hi
I support speed limits, they generally exist for good reasons and road safety is a big, and important issue. But when I see images such as this I can't help but feel anger.
The picture, courtesy of North Wales speed camera spotters, shows a mobile speed camera set-up over the A55 in Colwyn Bay North Wales. The dual carriageway here, on the primary expressway link between England, North Wales and the ferry port at Holyhead, is a 50mph limit, not for safety reasons but to reduce noise because the road was built through the centre of the town.
So it makes a prime revenue raising opportunity for GoSafe, the North Wales Safety Camera Partnership. Now we can argue about whether anyone who speeds deserves the fine or not, but the covert installation of the camera can only have been sited to catch drivers unaware, they won't ever see the camera van and the first they'll know of it is when the NIP hits their mat.
From the GOSafe website:
"Myth: Safety cameras are hidden to catch motorists out and are placed where they will record the most speeding offences.
Fact: Cameras are not hidden to catch drivers out or placed where they will record the most speeding offences. Cameras are there to encourage motorists to drive within the speed limit so the most successful cameras are those which record the LEAST number of offences not the most."
I think GoSafe need to look up the definition of hidden! This set-up doesn't even have the benefit of forcing drivers to slow down and think twice. It's this type of practice that increases the suspicion of drivers that speed cameras exist as a stealth tax, when the road is more than capable of accommodating a higher speed, there is no safety issue here.
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Posted on Thursday, June 23 @ 04:10:09 UTC by Darren Griffin |
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