There are no areas of the economy off limits to the so-called Taxpayers’ Alliance (TPA), and such is their zeal that they have another spin-off, the Drivers’ Alliance (DA), to help spread their particular brand of propaganda on matters relating to road transport and travel. They have published a so-called “research note” titled “Speeding Fines” [.pdf], with such...

The speed cameras with the highest conviction rates or number of accidents could be routinely published, under government plans.

Last month I blogged about an experiment in Sweden where a speed camera records all the cars keeping to the speed limit with all the legal drivers going into a prize draw for cash prizes. The trial has now been carried out and here’s the result (quick version – the average speed of traffic fell

Welcome to another in my occasional series on useful, interesting or controversial findings from academic studies. Today’s it is the question of speed cameras, for which a study of international evidence has recently been conducted: To evaluate the effectiveness of speed cameras, the authors examined all eligible studies, that is, studies that met pre-set standard

Peers are posing questions to the government on speed cameras, government cars, electoral systems in the UK and electoral fraud.

Carrot or stick? It’s a common policy debate – do you get the best outcome by punishing or encouraging? At the moment, it most frequently comes up in political debates over the environment, and in particular recycling. Can recycling levels best be raised by encouragement, such as discounts for recycling more of your waste, or

THE first town to switch off its speed cameras is celebrating the decision after accident rates and fines plummeted. There have been no deaths on Swindon’s roads since the fixed cameras were turned off in August last year. In the past 12 months, the town has had just two serious accidents and 14 slight accidents. This is compared

Labour’s claims that Tory Government is bad for your health have already been verified in the early days of the Con/Lib Government. The news that Surrey Heath has the highest level of road accidents for children in Surrey comes with the announcement that Runnymede and Chertsey MP Philip Hammond is cutting the Government grant for speed cameras. "There is now every chance that more children w...

The BBC News website has a non-story about speeding statistics at the site of two switched-off speed cameras in Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire County Council couldn’t afford to keep the speed cameras going after the British government withdrew central funding for speed cameras in England so they turned them off but Thames Valley Safer Road Partnership –

Speed cameras are neither scarily Orwellian devices nor the saviours of pedestrians from rampaging motorists.