Almost all of Birmingham’s new average speed cameras are switched off most of the time, the Birmingham Mail can reveal.

The eight sites went live at the start of August – but in the first month only two of them caught almost all of the speeders.

And the Mail can reveal after a battle with West Midlands Police and their Freedom of Information department that four of the eight cameras were not switched on for the whole month.

Reported by Birmingham Mail. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.