Speed cameras covered and showing not in use
Discussion
Dave Finney said:
They should NOT just switch all of the cameras off,They should run a SCIENTIFIC TRIAL.
https://speedcamerareport.co.uk/scientific-trials/
Sort the camera sites into 59 similar pairs.
Randomly choose 1 from each pair to be switched off.
Carry on running the other 59 cameras.
After their "assessment over a three-year period", we will then get the answer to the question:
Does removing speed cameras lead to more serious crashes, or fewer?
Why do they refuse to run scientific trials?
Is it that they are desperate to ensure the public never finds out the true effect of their cameras?
I wonder if it's something to do with the financial/operational cost of running the Gatsos.
With that said, the Gatso in Busby didn't have one of these covers on when I last drove past it. And there were a couple of sites on the list which seemed to be camera van locations on the M74 / A74 (M).
With that said, the Gatso in Busby didn't have one of these covers on when I last drove past it. And there were a couple of sites on the list which seemed to be camera van locations on the M74 / A74 (M).
Drawweight said:
3 still in action between Haddington and Edinburgh, all on what I assume is a perfectly safe dual carriageway but they’ve covered a lot of ones where I’d consider speed needed monitoring.
So honestly I don’t know what they are thinking.
I've just been been down to Northumberland and back and did wonder why the cameras on the A1 down past Tranent and Haddington appear in operation yet from Dunbar fine to Berwick are all covered... the latter of those sections being the one you'd expect to have more issues - farm traffic, traffic crossing and queues on the single carriageway sections where wagons are running slower. So honestly I don’t know what they are thinking.
Suppose, after their "assessment over a three-year period", this happens:
There's an increase in collisions due to random variation at some of their deactivated sites,
and they therefore reactivate the cameras at those locations.
After another 3 years they then say:
"Look, collisions have:
1. Reduced where the cameras were switched back on, and
2. Increased where the cameras remained off".
They then conclude that: "The cameras are improving road safety".
Are we so gullible that we would be taken in by this?
Or would we recognise that as the blatant incompetence/deception that it is?
There's an increase in collisions due to random variation at some of their deactivated sites,
and they therefore reactivate the cameras at those locations.
After another 3 years they then say:
"Look, collisions have:
1. Reduced where the cameras were switched back on, and
2. Increased where the cameras remained off".
They then conclude that: "The cameras are improving road safety".
Are we so gullible that we would be taken in by this?
Or would we recognise that as the blatant incompetence/deception that it is?
Davie said:
I've just been been down to Northumberland and back and did wonder why the cameras on the A1 down past Tranent and Haddington appear in operation yet from Dunbar fine to Berwick are all covered... the latter of those sections being the one you'd expect to have more issues - farm traffic, traffic crossing and queues on the single carriageway sections where wagons are running slower.
Same here, strange selection of sites to leave on vs turn off. Did you get caught in the city bypass jam on the way down on Friday ? The usual moron not paying attention and launching themselves into the scenery when their head finally lifted from the phone/screen/in car entertainment system by the look of the 90 degree black lines leading to the bushes. The emergency services blokes had a laugh when i suggested leaving the idiot where they were on the way past.Edinburgh seems to have the highest percentage of utterly crap self entitled drivers of anywhere in Scotland, i hardly see any of the stuff i see there when on the M8 and there are periods of time where it seems there is at least one clown per day ends up upside down on the city bypass.
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