Bike-catching new speed cameras still don’t work

Speed camera bosses are no closer to fixing a cock-up which has rendered an £800,000 high-tech new camera network unusable. 

Rear-facing average-speed cameras on Cheshire’s A537 Cat and Fiddle road from Macclesfield to Buxton were supposed to be switched on by Easter to catch motorcyclists. 

But the Cheshire Safer Roads Partnership is still at a loss over what to do about an apparent oversight which makes them inaccurate.  

The devices calculate average-speed between camera units based on the assumption that vehicles haven’t strayed from the A537. But between two of them there is a shortcut which leaves and rejoins the A537, cutting the journey and making an accurate speed calculation impossible.

When MCN exposed the cock-up last month, partnership manager Lee Murphy said he hoped to resolve the problem and begin enforcement within a week.

But Murphy said today the partnership had yet to find a solution. “I can’t say anything more than that,” he added.