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Thursday 5 March 2009

Road Safety

The paper carries a story this week regarding reduced funding for the Cheshire Safer Roads Partnership.

Lovely as this title sounds, what it means is that the people who run the mobile speed cameras have had their funding cut a bit, so they've been sounding off in the paper. Which is cheeky but lets not worry about that.

However in other news:
"The new Cheshire East Council is also focusing on motorcyclists and will get almost 600,000 pounds to lead a project aiming to reduce casualties among bikers on the A537"
So basically we'll have less cash to put a speed camera van up by the cat and fiddle pub, and more cash to look into better ways to improve road safety.

Hopefully this will be by signage, education and punishment for poor driving and riding, rather than a pure focus on speed. All positive stuff.

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