CAMPAIGN AGAINST 20 MPH SPEED CAMERAS

Alliance of British Drivers - London Region

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20 Mph Zones

Note that neither this Campaign, nor the ABD, oppose 20 Mph zones where they are applied to appropriate residential locations and where compliance is likely to be high. What we do oppose is their enforcement by average speed cameras, or by speed humps. There is little evidence that such measures improve road safety on top of the use of simple signs and minor traffic engineering works. Indeed, the use of average speed cameras is likely to be used as a simple revenue raising measure, supported by those who have a fixation on traffic speed rather than a real focus on road safety - see the page of this site entitled “Cost Effectiveness” for more information on that.  It is very regrettable that in recent years the focus of road safety campaigns has often been on traffic speed, which has distorted the priorities, diverted funds and undermined sensible road safety measures.

The Alliance of British Drivers (ABD) has published several articles on the subject of 20 Mph zones. See these documents for more information on the benefits of such zones and how they should be used (these are PDF documents which require the free Adobe Acrobat reader to display):

• A submission to the London Assembly Inquiry into 20 Mph zones: Response to GLA
• An analysis of the wide-area Portsmouth 20 Mph zone: Portsmouth

There are also several articles in the past newsletters of the London Region of the ABD available from this web page: Newsletters (see issues 14, 12 and 6).

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