he black burn marks on the yellow box in Queen’s Drive will tell you all you need to know about what they think of speed cameras in Swindon. The Wiltshire borough’s Tory-run council has become the first in Britain to abolish the cameras after it refused to pay the £320,000-a-year cost of maintaining them.
Peter Greenhalgh, the councillor in charge of highways, claimed that the cameras were “a blatant tax on motorists”. He said that, instead, the money would be spent on road safety projects that save lives, rather than fill Treasury coffers. Opponents of the move have told the council that it will have “blood on its hands” when the first person is killed by a speeding driver.



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