(this was on friday - numbers have increased!)

Since it's launch less than two days ago the Safe Speed official petition to scrap speed cameras has gathered over 2,000 signatures to become a 'rising star' on the Downing Street web site.

It's already ranked 50 out of 2,869 Downing Street petitions, having overtaken over 2,800 other petitions in less than two days. In the 'Transport and Infrastructure' group, amazingly, it is ranked 8 out of 421.

See: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/scrapcam

Paul Smith, founder of the Safe Speed road safety campaign(www.safespeed.org.uk) said: "Drivers know that speed cameras are the wrong policy and don't make the roads safer. If fact we even know that speed cameras make us into worse drivers. Why the DfT doesn't know this is anyone's guess, but this is our chance to tell them."

"We earned ourselves he safest roads in the world long before we had speed cameras. Since cameras, we're falling back fast. We have to get back to the policies that gave us the safest roads in the world in the first place; policies that value skills and attitudes."

"I urge every driver to sign the petition. We have to force Department for Transport to treat us with respect and value our skills."