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IN THE NEWS
Page 13
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Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up of the way the newspapers have covered the wonderful world of transport this week.
BRITAIN'S MOST senior traffic policeman and scourge of all motorists (if the tabloids are to be believed) is standing down.
However, Richard Brunstrom knows how to go out with a bang. According to The Sun the Gatso evangelist now advocates the use of speed cameras in cat's eyes.
"Brunstrom said installing the sneaky speed traps in reflective road studs would lead to a clampdown on joyriders and boy racers," shrieked the Wapping title. They could also be used to check insurance and MoT details and even unpaid parking tickets, fines and congestion charges."
Not to mention unpaid dog licences, suspected apple scrumping and finally proving who drank the office's communal milk directly out of the container.
Jeremy Clarkson brought some suitable gravitas to the story: "Brunstrom could perhaps get laser dogs with small explosive charges to target speeding drivers. Or he could get a space rocket to blow them off the road," were two of his more creative suggestions.
Ironically, later in the tabloid's story a spokesman for the Association of British Drivers said: You wouldn't treat a dog the way police treat the UK motorist." Presumably, Clarkson would.
It was left to The Times to air Brunstrom's valedictory comments: "We didn't anticipate the continuing refusal by some people and some sections of the media to accept that cameras are not a stealth tax, but are about making roads safer."
And motorists didn't anticipate the continuing refusal by the Chief Constable of North Wales to accept his tactics were deeply unpopular and flawed.
He added that he was stepping down "because it's time someone else had a go. It's always a mistake to stay beyond your sell-by date..." Police chief's plea for speed earners sites to be extended
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