Britain to scrap speed cameras
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Hundreds of Hungarians taking a sabbatical for temporary work in the British Isles will be glad to hear that the British Government may abolish the use of costly speed monitoring cameras.
They will now be able to return to the Isles with a straight face if they bunked paying the fines they were sent via the local councils or the DVLA licensing authorities.
One of the reasons for the abolishment is that while cameras are being maintained and financed by local councils, the money they generate via penalties and fines goes directly into the central government’s coffers.
Yet the central government is cutting local council budgets and no longer wishes to finance them with enough money to maintain the cameras. This catch-22 situation now leaves local councils in limbo 18 years after their cameras were first introduced.
In Oxfordshire county alone they plan to shut down 161 cameras due to lack of funding.
