speed cameras being turned off. (poll)

[mealexme]

Oxfordshire is set to be the next council to turn off its 79 fixed cameras while Devon and Cornwall, Somerset and Northamptonshire are also considering the switch off.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

[PhatDad]

Oxfordshire is set to be the next council to turn off its 79 fixed cameras while Devon and Cornwall, Somerset and Northamptonshire are also considering the switch off.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

 

If they turn them off, remove them and then place them in places such as outside schools or playing fields then it's a good thing.

If they're just turning them off then it's still a good thing but it'll mean they'll have their mobile police units working all over the place so there's a chance you can get caught on stretches of road you wouldn't usually get them becuase they have forward facing cameras already.

[techno]

Only thing I care about is if they start having coppers hiding all over, at least with speed cameras you know where they are.

And why position them outside schools after all when there needed near schools your lucky to do 20mph anyway at all other times its pointless!

[PhatDad]

Only thing I care about is if they start having coppers hiding all over, at least with speed cameras you know where they are.

And why position them outside schools after all when there needed near schools your lucky to do 20mph anyway at all other times its pointless!

 

Because the schools tend to be on streets where kids play, near homes, and on smaller streets where cars still manage to be ragged about whereas camera's always seem to be on straight, duel carriageways or ring roads. I'd rather the cars around where I live were slowed down than those on ring roads etc

[Guest]

I hate the cops in bushes thing, one near me on a 30 road was even in the local paper...

been really paranoid about them recently

i think its a good thing only if the cops in bushes doesn't rise

[Fazer Pete]

Its a good thing, they have only ever been about raising money. That has been proven by the fact they are switching them off now. No amount of cost would see them turned off, in this blame society, if they had anything to do with safety.

[techno]

Only thing I care about is if they start having coppers hiding all over, at least with speed cameras you know where they are.

And why position them outside schools after all when there needed near schools your lucky to do 20mph anyway at all other times its pointless!

 

Because the schools tend to be on streets where kids play, near homes, and on smaller streets where cars still manage to be ragged about whereas camera's always seem to be on straight, duel carriageways or ring roads. I'd rather the cars around where I live were slowed down than those on ring roads etc

 

As i said most of the time cars cant really do much speed around these areas, but also kids should be told about maybe not playing on a public highway and how to cross a road!

But i would happily concede to this if they actually put proper limits on other roads out of towns and housing estates etc!

But main point rather have speed cameras than sneaky cops in unmarked vans!