Spending waste

Published on 24/09/2012 00:00

Average speed cameras (your report, 20 September) may have been a success in Ayrshire, but they would be another waste of scarce money on the A9. 

It isn’t possible to drive at 60mph from Perth to Inverness or intermediate points, let alone exceed that average, because you are constantly stuck behind HGVs dittering along at their 40mph speed limit. I suspect that law dates from when brakes were operated by rods and cables.

In addition to HGVs, the real problem on this road is the idiots who overtake when they can’t see ahead and just hope someone will let them back into the queue.

It’s time that the politicians and police forgot their obsession with speed and concentrated on these type of drivers, but they won’t be caught by sitting in lay-bys in a car or one of their fancy camera vans. Any money would be better spent getting the police to patrol the road on the move, rather then the introduction of average speed cameras.

Jim Geddes

Braeside Place

Newtonmore