The following graph shows show the amount of speed camera fine revenue that was reclaimed by the partnerships implmenting speed cameras to implement further speed cameras. Quite a spike after the first year huh?

The Telegraph has a view on speed cameras that I have to agree with. For decades, this country has had some of the safest roads in the world. Ministers argue that festooning our highways with speed cameras makes them even safer. The evidence suggests otherwise. While we have installed more speed cameras than anywhere else in Europe, the decline in road deaths in Britain has actually been less mark...

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 –

Several more authorities are expected to ban speed cameras over the next year, following the lead of Swindon council. Last night it became the first in the UK to scrap fixed point speed cameras over concerns that the government is using them to raise money. The nine-strong cabinet of the Tory-run council voted unanimously in favour of withdrawing from the partnership that operates local safety cam...

Conservative Shadow Police Reform Minister, David Ruffley, who condemned speed cameras last week, campaigned for more speed traps in his own constituency, Labour Matters can reveal. Mr Ruffley organised a petition and repeatedly called for speed cameras on the A143 which runs through Great Barton, yet nationally called speed cameras "cash cows" claiming that "the Government needs to rethink ways o...

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

Emine Saner: Why is Tory-run Swindon borough council considering removing speed cameras and spending the money on other road-safety measures?

Speed cameras could be scrapped as a local council prepares to challenge the Government over the issue for what is believed to be the first time.

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

Swindon is in the national news today after the Tory council voted to stop funding speed cameras from next year. As a political activist in the same town I have a passing acquaintance with these Tory councillors, as individuals they are mainly sincere and well intentioned; and in a break from the Thatcher era they