Speed camera initiative ‘not ready until 2005’

A GOVERNMENT plan to fund 60 fixed speed cameras to curb speeding across the country will not be up and running until 2005, Fine Gael claimed last night.

Fine Gael’s Transport spokesperson, Denis Naughten, said the cameras could be installed sooner if the political will was there.

Mr Naughten is also worried that the private company running the system will place cameras in 30-mile-an-hour zones rather than on dangerous roads.