The M4 Protest group today issued a series of demands intended toimprove road safety and end the oppressive and counter productiveoveruse of speed cameras.

Paul Smith, road safety spokesman for M4 Protest said: "£700 million of fines issued by speed cameras have not made theroads safer. We believe that the speed camera programme is dangerouslyflawed and causes more problems than it solves. Officials are notlooking at the big picture and prefer to rely on narrow and misleadingstatistics. While they do this road deaths are rising. Enough isenough."

The demands are:

We demand the immediate suspension of all speed cameras on openmotorways because we do not believe that they improve safety.

We demand an end to the greedy camera partnerships. The partnershipstructure is cash driven and works against genuine road safety.

We demand that no road safety policy penalises safe and responsibledriving.

We demand road safety policies that enhance, rather than destroy, therelationship between responsible members of the public and the Police.

We demand that the major political parties make very clear theirpolicies on speed cameras and road safety in the run up to the generalelection.

We demand a fair, impartial and statistically sound review of allspeed camera operations giving proper consideration to side effects aswell as main effects.

We demand an immediate end to the deliberate abuse of statisticaldata. For example, camera partnerships and others ignore regression tothe mean effects to fraudulently claim benefit for their cameras.

We demand open and accurate public debate on the issues surroundingspeed cameras. Our spokesperson will meet anyone - head to head - inany national media.

The M4 Protest is intended to be peaceful, non-obstructing and lawabiding. Protest vehicles will run in Lane 1 and Lane 2 only at atarget speed of 56mph.

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