An ongoing attempt to ruin one of the most fantastic biking roads I've ridden in the UK has hit a few problems.
In the age of austerity this particular representative (;D) council spends £800k of its constituents' money, pisses everyone off (bike and car drivers alike) and then manages to utterly arse up the implementation. Brilliant.
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereven...a_single_biker
On the same topic, I had an interesting chat with a Bristol plod the other day. The statistics are starting to come out now on traffic incidents and deaths at former traffic camera sites (e.g. Wilts). Apparently they are not good for the "road safety lobby" as they show a decrease in incidents in almost all areas and a decrease overall - presumably because people are concentrating on driving safely than fixating on a speedo dial a foot or two below where they should be looking. If that's true it will be interesting to see if they release the findings.
