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TORY COUNCIL
Today councilor Peter Greenhalgh said: ‘We treat road safety very, very seriously.
‘But we pay about £400,000 a year to the partnership - money which goes straight into the Government’s pockets.
‘We don’t get anything back. Instead we feel this money should be spent on a range of local safety measures.’
Mr Greenhalgh, the Conservative member for highways, transport and strategic planning, added: ‘These are far more effective that speed cameras which, I feel, are a blatant tax on the motorist.
‘They are a very small part of our overall road safety measures and there are much more important things we as a council should do instead of acting as a law enforcement arm of this Government.’
Has the worm turned / is this sense in road safety terms /is it party politics ---certainly the first step on the road (pun intended) to road safety sanity - at last are the inmates being put back inside the asylum .
I'd like to think that this is politicians bowing to public opinion , but I fear an alternative motive .(Such as vote hunting
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But then again , having tried a "NEW " approach to road safety -they might believe in it enough to make the figures justify the result and ,who knows ,other councils might do likewise -bit like the domino effect .
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