Swindon council plans to get rid of speed cameras
Date: 15 July 2008
The Swindon council is planning to rid the city of speed cameras, according to reports.
Reuters claims that the local council is set to stop spending £400,000 annually to fund the cameras and will instead focus its attentions and cash on other traffic calming methods.
This could be good news for couriers working in the region.
According to the news provider, the region's head of highways, councillor Peter Greenhalgh has been quoted as referring speed cameras as "a blatant tax on motorist".
The news resource adds that local councils can no longer keep the fines that speed cameras generate, which may be why fewer are supporting them than previously.
However, this decision has not proved popular with everyone, with Anne Snelgrove, Labour MP for South Swindon and parliamentary private secretary to the transport secretary Ruth Kelly, telling the BBC that the council is "playing politics with lives".
Meanwhile, online news resource Reifenpresse recently reported that a new laser tread depth measuring system for moving traffic from ProContour GmbH could become the next speed camera.
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