The Government have announced considerable cutbacks in their pursuit of an overall financial savings of £6.2bn in the year 2010/11.
To this end the Department for Transport (DfT) is reducing the money that they spend on road safety via local authorities.
In June 2010, the Government announced an in-year reduction of £470,000 in the capital grant allocation for the Isle of Wight council – chopping it by a third.
Speed cameras
Speed cameras are thought to be part of road safety. Oxfordshire County Council were the first to vote to turn off speed cameras.
Now the Safer Roads Partnership, that operates on the Island, has made a draft recommendation that “all non-mobile enforcement activities are to be withdrawn by 31 December 2010.”
Translating that, there won’t be any money available to run the fixed speed cameras if they need any more money spent on them.
Mobile speed cameras would continue to be funded.
All other enforcement, education, training and media activities will cease at the end of the current calendar year.
Image: Google maps with Safer Roads Partnership camera locator information
