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1. Official! Speed cops are a dying breed
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
This is not the way to enforce road safety standards. New Government figures reveal traffic police are offically a dying breed – with some forces slashing patrols by up to 84 per cent. The Depa

...h for driving a cash machine on wheels, they would go out of their hate-driven way to force us from the road. I kid you not. And here today, in the Daily Mail, is a story which sums up these people. T...

3. Huge cost of speed cam abuse
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...box housing the cameras and set it alight. The most targeted was in Northumberland on the A1 at Hebron Road Ends, which has been vandalised three times in the past year and a half. Another favourite...

...nd ensuring speeding drivers cannot be caught. While some motorists support the group and its actions, road safety campaigners have criticised the moves, which often include setting fire to cameras. ...

5. 2 in 5 drink drivers is 'foreign'
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
... keep banging on about, this is a problem which speed cameras cannot detect. We need police back on our roads to catch dangerous drivers, drink drivers and uninsured idiots. We do NOT need policing by...

6. Dustbin 'Stazi' are a sign of the times
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
I've said before that giving local authorities extra powers is the road to ruin. These people will ALWAYS exploit any means at their disposal. For crying out loud - anti-terror laws to watch peop

7. News of the World: Flash of anger
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...are growing as drivers become more fed-up. We have disabled more than 1,000 cameras since 2000.” Road safety group Brake said: “Speed cameras are there to protect lives.” And the D...

8. Experts: Labour's transport policy has failed
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...' laughed. Prices have only dopped 10-15% so far so be prepared. It's one hell of a bump in the road we are approaching. By the Spring there will be a lot of boarded up stores on our High Stre...

The idea that by imposing a 20mph speed limit on neighbourhoods will reduce road accidents is just plain wrong. By trying to measure peoples' speed within those neighbourhoods is just foolish. Wha

10. Town votes to ditch speed cameras
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...as people began to lose licences and their jobs. And people realised that the cameras made no effect on road casualty figures (in fact, they have got steadily worse since their introduction). We said ...

...ence of the case. There are more than 40 type approved devices used to measure speed on the UK’s roads by the police. Type approval means that the Home Office has approved the use of the devic...

12. NEW SPEED CAM WAR ON DRIVERS
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
... will track drivers for up to six miles. The traps will enforce the speed limit over huge stretches of road, including motorways and residential areas. The equipment, set to be approved in January, ...

13. 999 cops to get speeding fines
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...9;blues and twos' and hitting the gas pedal. They have no more skills than any other driver on the road. And putting them in a uniform doesn't make them any safer for it either. So let'...

...ameras will be installed are in Potters Bar, Hemel Hempstead and Royston. Theresa Casbard, Head of the Road Safety Unit at Hertfordshire County Council, said: ‘We are the first Partnership in t...

... on civil liberties. Motorists Against Detection have been saying for too long that this march down the road of being monitored by cameras is against everything this country stands for. They are ineff...

... Wrongly fined: Sheffield City Council could have to pay out £350,000 after putting up inadequate road signs and then fining drivers for flouting the rules Wrongly fined: Sheffield City Council...

...n Blair, RESOURCES. Having family and friends in the job, I know that London has five Traffic Depts or Road Policng Units now and they are lucky to put out a couple of cars each per night, crewed wit...

...ven drink drivers - they don't even make drivers afraid of taking the risk. Put more police on our roads, fewer cameras and get Britain's roads back to being the safest in Europe! Tonight: J...

... for the Partnership, this happened back in last September, so this idea CAN work! The West of England Road Safety Partnership where the Group who made the headlines after buying Cameras to watch the...

...n Blair, RESOURCES! Having family and friends in the job, I know that London has five Traffic Depts or Road Policng Units now and they are lucky to put out a couple of cars each per night, crewed wit...

... no surprise. I told you last month that car sales had collpased with potential buyers asking after the road tax rates for any potential purchase. Well done Gordon - you've nailed a lot of car sel...

...vices just after 0800 BST on junction 18 of the M62, to head into the city centre. Police used rolling-roadblocks to keep disruption to a minimum, but traffic backed up behind the convoy on the M60. ...

... a cyclist and a motorcyclist and all I am saying is that cyclists should appreciate the needs of other road users. I am acutely aware of cyclists and their needs but other motorists aren't - and ...

24. Captain Gatso: Cyclists must obey the law
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...ing some law changes for cyclists. This is what I told The Times: The same rules should apply to every road user. You cannot make exceptions just because someone happens to be on a bicycle. Cyclists ...

...ngerous!" More than half of 1,000 motorists quizzed in a survey said they were distracted from the road by looking out for Gatsos. One in three applied their brakes when they saw one no matter w...

26. Nearly 100 new speed cameras for Sussex
(News/Police and The Law)
...o not require film and so never stop working. A prototype is now being trialed by the The Sussex Safer Road Partnership. The county has been selected as one of two test sites for new devices made by...

...e by Lancashire Police. The courses, which cost each driver around £90 and are run by Lancashire Road Safety Group, are offered in place of the usual £60 fine and three points. A spokesm...

...otest at the rising cost of fuel, at the same time as speculation mounted about a government rethink on road tax. The drivers protested in London and a two-mile line of lorries crawled along the M4 t...

...raise the cost of driving. The Labour MPs say poorer motorists will suffer most from plans to increase road taxes on more polluting cars. Road hauliers are also angry that fuel duty is set to rise b...

...se to Marble Arch. Transport for London has said the A40 will be closed between White City and Edgware Road in west London tomorrow from 10am until 3pm so the demonstrators can park their lorries. T...

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