Dorset claim poverty in fixed speedcam reduction
Date: Thursday, September 16 @ 12:32:23 UTC
Topic:
 Dorset Road Safe have announced plans to reduce the number of fixed speed cameras in the county.
Citing financial considerations following the 25% reduction in funding from central government for the move, they went on to announce an increase in the number of mobile speed camera vans on the fleet from two to five.
Quite why they consider it more expensive to operate a fixed and unattended speed camera (other than occasional maintenance and film changes) than an expensive manned speed camera van is left unexplained.
Now the cynical amongst us may suppose that this move is about catching more motorists, something mobile cameras are very much better at.
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