It's official: Speed cameras are there to raise money

Robongar · **Joined:** Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:23 pm **Posts:** 166

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_sp ... peed_limit

Following a series of serious motorway multiple crashes in the fog in 1965, Tom Fraser, the then Minister of Transport, following consultations in early November with the police and with the National Road Safety Advisory Council (NRSAC), concluded that the crashes were caused by vehicles travelling too fast for the prevailing conditions. The NRSAC advised that a 20 mph (32 km/h) motorway speed limit should be imposed on motorway stretches affected by fog and that a general speed limit of 70 mph (113 km/h) should be experimentally applied for the winter months.[52]

Jon · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:05 pm **Posts:** 2807

Wow! As late as 1965? That's incredible!

Westonman · **Joined:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:46 am **Posts:** 1806

And Barbara Castle made the 70 mph trial permanent on all motorways:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_C ... _Blackburn

Quote:

n the Wilson Government of 1964–1970, she held a succession of ministerial posts. She entered the Cabinet as the first Minister for Overseas Development, becoming the fourth woman in British history ever to hold position in a Cabinet, after Margaret Bondfield, Ellen Wilkinson and Florence Horsbrugh.[4]
As Minister of Transport (23 December 1965 – 6 April 1968), she introduced the breathalyser to combat the then recently acknowledged crisis of drink-driving, and also made permanent the 70 mph speed limit.

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