Safe Speed Forums

I've been looking at W.York's new "Request a Camera" page, it is quite amusing really:

http://www.safetycameraswestyorkshire.c ... camera.htm

I can't believe they are directing members of the public there, most people would think "what the heck?" and go away, or choose "don't know" for most of them.



This is a useless question - as we know the "site length" is arbitary (and usually picked to suit the statistics), and NOT the same as road length, which most people will assume they mean.



This information is unavailable to most people - I only know of one LA who have a public a GIS mapping system showing collisions (Herts I think). Most people have no idea of even the raw number of collisions on local roads, even the road they live on. Asking people for the number of collisions on the "road length" is just pointless (see above comment about site lengths)



Possibly the only relevant question (other than "road name/no"), since people will think about the road itself and other solutions.

In the subsequent form you are required to enter a "company/organisation" field, you can select your country (yes, I live in Afghanistan but Leeds road safety is close to my heart), and helpfully you are automatically opted-in to the SCaM newsletter (via. the mandatory email address)

Gareth

Request a speed camera

1. How many cars use the road per hour?

2. What % of cars exceed the limit?

3. Anywhere we can hide a cam?

4. Is there a school 5 miles down the road which we can use to lower the speed limit?

Take heart though folks. The subtext is:

From the 1st April our funding will no longer be ringfenced

The vultures are circling

The crash stats don't support our existence (well, we knew that...)

So we'd better gather something / anything / anthing at all to justify defending what's left of the cash.

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Slightly off topic (moderator please split if you see fit)



I didn't know ANY local authorities published the crash location stats, GIS or otherwise. I've said elsewhere, I believe ALL NIP letters should include a summary of the justification used for the siting of the camera, in fact I think all camera locations should be published with that kind of metadata.

I don't suppose you have a link for this in Herts, to save me some Google time later?

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Darn, I remembered HertsDirect because they have a nice mapping system, but it's not on their list:

http://www.hertsdirect.org/maps/

It was a very similar system, you could filter by fatal, serious and slight collisions, but there wasn't any of the detailed data available.

The raw data itself is available from www.data-archive.co.uk but there are stringent conditions on it's use.

Excellent, I've just put in a request for here.