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Title: Calls to pull down motorway speed camera that INCREASED the number of crashes
Date: 05/01/2009
URL: www.dailymail.co.uk

Preview: Speed camera bosses are under fire after it was revealed that a controversial motorway camera put up to save lives has actually INCREASED the number of crashes and injuries.

The number of accidents have risen by a quarter and casualties almost doubled since the bright yellow Gatso camera was put up on a stretch of the busy  M11 motorway in Essex.

Police said crashes were happening because motorists were slowing down ahead of the camera and then speeding up once they were clear of it - a phenomenon known as 'surfing'.

Campaigners said it demonstrated the  madness of the speed camera mania, and accused the authorities of using the devices to raise cash rather than save lives.


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The Drivers' Alliance?

The Drivers' Alliance opposes road pricing and congestion charging which is at the core of transport policy in the UK.

Road pricing with its need to track and monitor your journeys was shown to be deeply unpopular when 1.8 million people signed a petition on the Downing Street website calling for it to be scrapped.

Drivers' in the UK are taxed £50 Billion a year but only 12% of this is spent on our roads. This is not enough to provide the capacity needed to reduce congestion and with it, emissions.

It is a political decision how the money is spent and it is a political decision to minimise spending on our roads. As road users and taxpayers, we pay enough to have the best roads in the world. Unfortunately, our government chooses to spend this money eslewhere and it is often wasted - see HERE

We need change. We need politicians who understand that people need to drive for work, for play and for family. To do this we need investment in roads as well as trains and track.

It is faulty policy to drive people out of their cars through deliberately caused congestion, limiting parking provision and ever higher taxation.

We are facing the prospect of road pricing and congestion charges which are supposedly to reduce congestion, but this congestion is caused by the ineptitude of government and their faulty policies.

Thanks to the petition and ongoing campaign, road pricing has been delayed and most local authorities have cancelled proposals to introduce a congestion charge.

Fortunately, Manchester which was the area most likely to introduce a charge voted down the proposals by a huge margin and hopefully this will deter those advocating road user charging for a while.


The Drivers' Alliance was founded by Peter Roberts who was behind the Downing Street petition and now campaigns full time against road pricing.

If you want the freedom to drive a car or ride a motorcycle, we need you.