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The length of the UK road network covered by permanent average speed cameras has more than doubled since 2013, new figures have revealed.
Research, obtained by the BBC's The One Show, found permanent cameras were now positioned in 80 UK sites, covering 263 miles - a distance longer than the M6.
The largest increase w99as in Scotland, where cameras were installed along a 100-mile stretch of the A9, in 2014.
Transport Scotland said the cameras had helped reduce casualties on the road.
Unlike traditional speed cameras, average speed cameras work by recording the time it takes a vehicle to travel between two positions on the road.
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The research, conducted for the RAC Foundation, found the distance covered by the cameras in 2013 was 127 miles.
More than 130 miles of road have been installed since then, it showed.
The new data excludes sites where average speed cameras are deployed temporarily, such as to monitor speed limits through motorway roadworks.
The RAC Foundation said the analysis was the first of its kind.
The cameras now cover 29 miles of the A9, between Dunblane and Perth, and have been installed at intervals on single-carriageway sections of the same road between Perth and Inverness.
The longest stretch in England is now on the A614 Old Rufford Road near Ollerton, in Nottinghamshire - which is 12 miles long.
clearly the treasury is enjoying the boost in funds generated or they wouldn't be investing in these as much
That stretch AVerage speed Cameras on the A9 in Scotland was supposed to cure the ill of it being Scotlands most lethal road yet the figures have hardly changed beyond annual variations, it's more about miliking the public than saving lives. It does not cure the biggest killer which is downright dangerous driving, that can only be achieved by Patrol cars enforcing the rules, it's not the 75 MPH driver thats killing people it's the bloody idiot overtaking in daft places that kills. IT's SNP policing on the cheap up here.
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