UK Copy Of French Speed Camera Project Fails. A French trial, hiding roadside speed cameras has resulted in a 60% drop in average speeds the interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy announced last March.
But when Tony Blair’s government adapted the same project for UK roads, police analysts noted no measurable effect whatsoever.
Analysts from the UK Department of Transport are now analyzing differences in the two projects to try and find out just why the French project, which hid the cameras in dummy-prostitutes at the roadside has been so much more effective in slowing traffic than the UK project which hid the cameras inside plastic traffic wardens.
