The final stage will be to draw conclusions and prepare a report, which will take about a year. Speed Cameras need help One sore point of recent years is the very limited use of speed cameras. The problem is that the money they raise in fines does not get recycled into the running costs and installation of new cameras. Therefore they can't be as widely used as they might be. The money must come from local authority funds.
Speed cameras are demonstrably successful.
When they were installed on Newmarket Road there was a reduction of around a third in the number of accidents. Noise and health also come into the equation. Cambridge has only one 20 mph zone, in Romsey. Yet in England and Wales at present, this is the only way to establish slower speed zones. We think it should be possible to establish 20 mph areas as standard, without necessarily using all this hardware.