Average-speed camera usage doubled in three years
Date: Thursday, June 02 @ 04:23:48 UTC
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According to research carried out by the BBC, the UK's network of average-speed cameras doubled in the last three years. This data excludes temporary installations used to monitor speed limits through roadworks.
51 stretches of road now have SPECS average-speed camera sections totalling 263 miles of controlled road with the shortest, London's Tower Bridge and the longest, a 99-mile stretch of the A9 in Scotland.
Average speed cameras were first introduced in 2000 but as costs to deploy them have fallen their use has become more widespread. It cost more than £1m per mile when they first appeared but costs have fallen with costs around £100,000 per mile.
The House of Commons Transport Committee has recommended more use of average-speed camera systems as they believe they are better received by motorists. I'd tend to agree although I'm still amazed to see drivers blasting through controlled sections well in excess of the limits, either think the cameras aren't operational, they're immune or they simply have no concept of how these systems work!
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