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Thursday, 8 August 2024

Benefit?



Major motorway to shut today as new speed cameras get rolled out

Drivers have been warned of new speed cameras being put in place along a major motorway in the UK.

The M80 in Scotland is set to benefit from new cameras and resurfaced roads which will aim to promote safer driving along the region.


The resurfacing is maintenance, something which should happen anyway, so not quite a benefit in the sense of it being some kind of advantage. Unless it's an advantage over no maintenance at all. 

Presumably the cameras benefit someone, not sure it's the motorists though.

5 comments:

Sam Vega said...

Maybe the resurfacing will be done so badly that people will have to drive slower and that will cause fewer accidents. In which case they can dispense with the cameras.

James Higham said...

More command and control.

Peter MacFarlane said...

The linked article seems to imply that it's only temporary average-speed cameras while the roadworks take place. But it's an American article, so they might have got it completely wrong...

dearieme said...

"along the region": something lost in translation, I suppose.

A K Haart said...

Sam - that seems to be the plan in Derbyshire already. Trying to be ahead of the game I suppose.

James - and more extensive than we know.

Peter - maybe it depends on how many they catch. If profitable it will probably continue either way.

dearieme - translation within an AI editing system perhaps.