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Post subject: Pledging to keep speed cameras

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 23:42

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This Is Leicestershire Here

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Pledging to keep speed cameras

Cuts in road safety funding will not lead to any speed cameras being switched off in Leicestershire, it has emerged.

The Leicestershire Safety Camera Partnership said it would not turn off or remove any of its fixed-camera sites around the county or cut back its mobile operation.
The partnership issued the statement after it was revealed that the Government had slashed the money given to local authorities for road safety.
However, the partnership added that the cuts meant no new cameras would be installed.

Hema Lad, from the Leicestershire Safety Camera Partnership, said: "There are no plans to reduce the number of safety cameras which are run by the local road safety partnership, made up of the county and city councils, police and other groups.

"Evidence from accident statistics shows that the cameras have been effective in reducing casualties and to remove them would be a retrograde step."

The government has cut £38 million of the £95 million that had been due to go to local authorities for road safety.

As I feared some areas will retain cameras and some not creating a variable 'paranoia' in road users.

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Steve

Post subject: Re: Pledging to keep speed cameras

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 23:51

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Hema Lad from the Leicestershire Safety Camera Partnership wrote:

"Evidence from accident statistics shows that the cameras have been effective in reducing casualties and to remove them would be a retrograde step."

Oops, there goes those suffering the obvious conflict of interest yet again capitalising on the illusion of regression to the mean.
I challenge them (or anyone) to prove cameras are at all effective when accounting for that factor, 'long-term trends' and 'bias on selection' (additional unrelated safety measures that (also) reduce casualties within the confines of camera sites).

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RobinXe

Post subject: Re: Pledging to keep speed cameras

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 01:10

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How will they continue if their funding is cut? Will their employees work for free, in the altruistic belief that their actions are saving lives?

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Johnnytheboy

Post subject: Re: Pledging to keep speed cameras

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 09:16

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I'm going to bear in mind who's keeping the scams when planning my next UK holiday I think.

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PeterE

Post subject: Re: Pledging to keep speed cameras

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 09:46

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Johnnytheboy wrote:

I'm going to bear in mind who's keeping the scams when planning my next UK holiday I think.

Yes, at great personal inconvenience, I'll be boycotting Leicestershire next year

Devon and Cornwall might get a boost, though

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Big Tone

Post subject: Re: Pledging to keep speed cameras

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 09:49

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Maybe not such a bad thing when we compare what happens there and Oxfordshire a year from now. They may be reading and weeping at the stats which they can then stuff in their pipes and smoke.

Johnnytheboy wrote:

I'm going to bear in mind who's keeping the scams when planning my next UK holiday I think.

Me too. Think I'll be heading south, somewhere at the end of the A44

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Johnnytheboy

Post subject: Re: Pledging to keep speed cameras

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:15

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PeterE wrote:

Johnnytheboy wrote:

I'm going to bear in mind who's keeping the scams when planning my next UK holiday I think.

Yes, at great personal inconvenience, I'll be boycotting Leicestershire next year

"Leicestershire: Gateway to the East"

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botach

Post subject: Re: Pledging to keep speed cameras

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:23

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Johnnytheboy wrote:

PeterE wrote:

Johnnytheboy wrote:

I'm going to bear in mind who's keeping the scams when planning my next UK holiday I think.

Yes, at great personal inconvenience, I'll be boycotting Leicestershire next year

"Leicestershire: Gateway to the East"

I'd have put as the plural of the Turkish Delight bar slogan

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