Going, going, gone: End of the speed camera

Will fewer speed cameras be the price of the government’s decision to reduce road safety funding? Patrick McDonnell reports

Savage cuts government spending on road safety schemes could see thousands of speed cameras switched off across England and Wales.

Speed cameras started becoming more prominent 10 years ago as result of safety camera partnerships, enabling councils to work with police forces to operate the cameras. Under the partnerships councils were entitled to a proportion of the revenue generated. But in 2007 the then Labour government decided the revenue would no longer go directly to the councils, but...

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