What Wisbech Roads Would You Change?/ Are Speed Cameras Dangerous?

We

have heard a lot in the local press about dangerous driving, accidents and

fatalities recently and now if we look at the front page of the Citizen this

week it appears it is the fault of the roads now and not the drivers.  Personally I feel that any road is only as

dangerous as the driver. There have been various junctions and rurul roads

brought up for debate about drivers speeding through them, not thinking, but

what use is the erecting of speed signs really going to make? According to a

report found at speedcamera.org speeding is last on the list of reasons why

people have accidents, less than 4% in a Department of Transport report found

on SpeedCamera.org.

One

step further from normal speed limit signs we have those electronic ones that

tell you when you are going too fast, drivers knowingly in excess of the speed

limit could easily ignore these. Then we have the speed camera. The speed

camera is on our roads for our own safety, set up in spots where there are

higher accident rates. What is your opinion of the speed camera? I have done a

little bit of research and have discovered that since 1993 placements of speed

cameras have soared which has completely obliterated the downward trend of road

deaths in this country. According to the Association of British Drivers Press

Release in Oct 2003 there had been in those 10 years 5500 extra fatalities on

the road than there would have been and it is the fault of the speed camera

because that is when they had started to be strongly enforced.

So

what would you do to change Wisbech’s Roads? Do you think more Speed Cameras are the

way forward? As slower traffic is being suggested to cure road fatalities.