They'll need to pay for everyone to have a new speedometer installed in their car, then, because the existing ones aren't accurate enough to measure to 1 mph!

They tend to be accurate or overread so won't be a problem.

Be interesting to see if the good electorate of Bedfordshire re-elect this here mayor of Gotham type.

Doesn't bother me, the stealth cameras are there anyway, though the number of them going off at any one time you'd be forgiven for thinking they had only been installed the previous night.

Driving pleaure has all but vanished now, we're going to have our internet browsing recorded (just as well or the backroom freedom front might do something unthinkable) and we're spied on every day of our lives from our phones tracking us to endless cctv cameras, we're driving headlong but blindfolded into a police surveillance state.

All to prevent terrorism you understand and don't forget if you've done nothing wrong you've nothing to worry about, unless you have an aversion to being probed with a rubber gloved finger..:-)

The man's not highly regarded in Bedfordshire.

He's the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) who wanted to increase the council tax to pay for policing. A local referendum (costing £300,000 from the police budget) was held and overwhelmingly rejected. He's now trying to recoup that money.

He suggested the Beds, Bucks and Herts control centres could be combined to save money - It's been suggested the Beds, Bucks and Herts PCCs could be done by one person to save money.

I think he's up for re-election next year - fat chance.

The speed limit should not be raised. 80 mph (or 90 mph) might be safe on an empty motorway in clear, dry conditions. But if the limit was raised more people would do 80 where it's unsafe to do so - plenty do that already but they'd probably then do 90 instead.

The speed limit needs to be raised to 80mph, travel takes longer and longer than it used to, everyone benefits from shorter journey times.

Maybe so, but raising the limit doesn't necessarily achieve that, as the reduced limits on the congested M25 prove. By ironing out ripples caused by sudden braking at 75+, more cars can get through each mile of road in a given time, especially as braking distance between cars can be less.

Curious to know where you use motorways; on M62/M1/M6/A1(M) up here in the North, every time I use them (even today in rain and fog) the majority of lane 2 and 3 vehicles are far too close for safety: even so-called professional LGV drivers include some who think ten feet separation from another LGV at 56 mph is adequate.

The 'two second rule' is rarely observed, in my experience.

Seems that the option to punish motorest on the Safest roads (account for 5% of deaths) rather than other types of road responsable for many more, good work!

This isn't about trying to make moeny out of motorists though - it's all politcal. Bedforshire Police say they don't have enough money and the governement have told them there is no more available so they are proposing this as a threat to try and get what they want.