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Local Transport Today
Letters to the editor
Paul Withrington, Director, Transport-Watch, Northampton
Calum Alexander and Anthony Lambert stoop to hurling insults in their attempt to discredit Paul Biggs and myself. Instead we rely on the data. Hence... continue
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Letters to the editor
Paul Biggs, Environment spokesman, Association of British Drivers, Tamworth, Staffs
LTT correspondent Calum Alexander doesn’t understand the relationship between speed, speed limits and road safety. Appropriate speed for the... continue
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Letters to the editor
Edward Gibbins, Alsager, Cheshire
Why does the media give space for a minority association to advance views on speed cameras that are not the views of the majority of motorists? The... continue
Local Transport Today
In brief
Derby City Council is to test the effect of deactivating three speed cameras on vehicle speeds. Cameras will be bagged over for 12 weeks from 27... continue
Local Transport Today
Letters to the editor
Calum Alexander
So Messrs Biggs and Withrington, the Tweededum and Tweedledee spokespersons of the contrarian road safety movement, have made it into your letters... continue
Local Transport Today
Regular news
Motoring organisation the AA this week called on ministers to rethink their opposition to speed cameras in England, and claimed that the views of... continue
Local Transport Today
Letters to the editor
Paul Withrington, Director, Transport-Watch, Northampton
Table 4(a) of the DfTs Reported Road Casualties Great Britain Annual Report 2008 shows that, in 2008, speeding was recorded in 14% of fatal accidents... continue
Local Transport Today
Letters to the editor
Malcolm Heymer, Dereham, Norfolk NR20
Amid all the controversy about the consequences of switching off speed cameras (ibid), one issue gets little if any mention – the... continue
Local Transport Today
Letters to the editor
Paul Biggs, Association of British Drivers, Environment spokesman, Tamworth, Staffs B77
I take issue with the hysteria surrounding the long overdue speed camera ‘switch-off’ as expressed by the likes of Mick Giannasi . The... continue
Local Transport Today
Regular news
Speed Camera's in Wiltshire will be demobilised later this year following the decision to disband the Wiltshire and Swindon Safety Camera... continue
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Regular news
Transport for London has invited suppliers of average speed cameras to express interest in a trial on the capital’s streets. In recent years a... continue
Local Transport Today
Media monitor
Speed Cameras returned to the news in force last week as it emerged that cuts to local authority Road Safety Grant could lead to significant numbers... continue
Local Transport Today
Main editorial comment
Andrew Forster
In recent weeks it has become increasingly clear that the coalition government has got into something of a stew over its policy on speed cameras.... continue
Local Transport Today
Regular news
The four-year evaluation report of the national safety camera programme, published by the DfT in 2005, concluded that safety cameras do reduce... continue
Local Transport Today
News extra
Andrew Forster
Speed and red light cameras in Oxfordshire were turned off last weekend  following the county council’s decision to slash funding to the... continue
Local Transport Today
Lead Story
Britain's lead police chief on roads policing this week urged  highway authorities in England to avoid making knee-jerk reactions that  put... continue
Local Transport Today
Regular news
Conservative Councillors this week voiced concern about the Government’s decision to cut funding for speed camera enforcement. Norfolk County... continue
Local Transport Today
Regular news
Variable speed limits could be introduced across more of England’s road network to cut congestion and improve road safety, roads minister Mike... continue
Local Transport Today
Lead Story
Andrew Forster
Highway Authorities and police forces across England are rethinking their road safety strategies following the receipt of a letter from road safety... continue
Local Transport Today
Letters to the editor
Paul Withrington, Director, TransportWatch, Northampton
Lord Nelson held the telescope to his blind eye so as to ignore a stupid order whilst keeping his good eye focused on what was needed.  In... continue
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