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A motorway speed camera is being removed in a bid to ease congestion on a section of the M4.

It has been blamed for causing tailbacks of up to five miles in the westbound lanes near junction 41 at Port Talbot.

It will be replaced by electronic signs displaying the speed of each vehicle, but not recording their details.

Tory AM Alun Cairns welcomed the move and said the camera's position had always been 'nonsensical'.

Mr Cairns, AM for South Wales West, said it was a problem because motorists hit the brakes when they saw it.

'This has been an issue for some time because the siting of the speed camera has always been nonsensical,' he said. 'Being so close to a junction it causes a lot of congestion where there is not a history of accidents.


'Westbound congestion of a Friday evening regularly tails back in excess of five miles, because people brake through instinct on observing the camera even when they are travelling within the speed limit.'


The Welsh Assembly Government said there were no plans to change the speed limit or remove the nearby speed camera that covered the eastbound lanes.

May have already been discussed