Organisation: RAC Foundation
Date uploaded: 15th January 2013
Date published/launched: July 2012
This study, carried out two years after the Government announced major cuts in road safety funding, suggests that fixed speed cameras continue to be used in most areas of England.
Data obtained following Freedom of Information (FOI) requests showed that in England there are currently (July 2012):
• 2,331 fixed speed camera sites
• 3,026 fixed speed camera housings
• 487 operational fixed cameras
Of the 38 organisations approached with FOI requests by the RAC Foundation four refused to answer any questions, while two others – Durham and Darlington, and North Yorkshire and York – have never used fixed speed cameras.
Of the 32 administrative bodies which did use fixed speed cameras and did respond, 10 said they had made no change to the level of provision of sites, housings and cameras since 2010. Several others registered only small changes in provision over the past two years.
The biggest changes were in Avon & Somerset, Northamptonshire and Wiltshire & Swindon where all operational cameras were switched off.
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