Courtesy The Scotsman
Extra enforcement part of new plans to cut Scottish road deaths to zero by 2050
By Alastair Dalton
Tuesday, 8th September 2020, 12:30 pm
A total of 24 locations for new speed cameras across Scotland were announced today by transport secretary Michael Matheson.
They include two new average speed camera zones, where vehicle speeds are measured over set distances.
They are part of a £675,000 scheme to cut deaths and injuries.
Average speed cameras will be deployed at:
Auchinairn Road in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire
Parkhouse Road, Nitshill, Glasgow
The new fixed cameras will be at:
Camelon Road, Arnothill, Falkirk
A944 eastbound at Kingswells, Aberdeen
Great Western Road westbound, near Gartnavel Hospital, Glasgow
Fenwick Road, Giffnock, East Renfrewshire
Nitshill Road northbound, Nitshill, Glasgow
Main Road, Cardross, West Dunbartonshire
Crookston Road northbound, Rosshall, Glasgow
Dubbs Road, Mid Achenleck, Port Glasgow
Mobile cameras will cover:
Links Road, Port Seton, East Lothian
Largo Road, Leven, Fife
A96 at Bainshole, Aberdeenshire
A835 north of Morefield, near Ullapool, Highland
B9128 at Crombie Crossroads, Angus
B987 at Northern Road, Kintore, Aberdeenshire
B977 at Old Aberdeen Road, Balmedie, Aberdeenshire
A930 at Dalhousie/Monifieth Road, Broughty Ferry
A832 at Station/Toll Road, Avoch, Highland
A96 west of Brodie, Moray
Springfield Road, Celtic Park, Glasgow
A72 on Carlisle Road, Ferniegair/Allanton, near Hamilton
Edgefauld Road, Petershill, Glasgow
Newton Street, Greenock.
The cameras were announced as part of the Scottish Government’s new Road Safety Framework to 2030 which sets a new target of zero road deaths by 2050.
Last year, 168 people were killed, seven more than in 2018 after reaching a new low of 145 in 2017.
The 2019 figure is half the total in 2003, and less than one third of the 1990 total of 546.
Mr Matheson said: "An exercise has been completed to identify new sites that would benefit from safety camera enforcement.
"Our investment of £675,000 will improve speed limit compliance, encourage better driver behaviour and reduce the numbers of people killed or seriously injured across the road network.”
The Scottish Government’s Transport Scotland agency said cameras were “proven to improve road safety by encouraging improved driver behaviour and speed limit compliance.
"This ultimately leads to fewer people being killed or injured on Scotland’s roads.
"Other benefits which safety cameras can deliver include reduced incident frequency and impact, and improved journey time reliability.”
The IAM RoadSmart motoring group said the cameras were a “small but important start” towards the 2050 zero deaths taget.
Neil Greig, its Scotland-based policy and research director said: “Average speed cameras tend to be a more effective tool but there is still a role for a site-by-site approach if speeding has been identified as the main problem at a location.
"Changing entrenched human behaviour will always be the key challenge.
“With flatlining in road death, drink drive and speeding statistics for almost a decade, real progress is still some way off.”