Funding cuts see Oxfordshire speed cameras switched off

by News admin on August 1, 2010

in Other News

Plans are in place to start switching off speed cameras in Oxfordshire as part of council plans to cut £13m from its budget.

All 72 fixed and 89 mobile camera sites cameras will be switched off from 1 August after £600,000 was axed from the road safety budget.

The money had earmarked for the Thames Valley Road Safety Partnership, which operates the cameras.

Officials backed the cuts at a full council meeting on 27 July.

While cameras generate revenue from fines……..Read Full article  BBC News Oxford

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Dennis August 7, 2010 at 3:17 pm

they shud switch of all the cameras,they just a stelth tax anyways.

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