The people who actually make the decisions
• Details of all Suffolk County Councillors, including their email addresses
• Suffolk County Council's Cabinet Committee - the people who make the really BIG decisions.
Websites about driving and road safety
• Reasonable Drivers Unanimous is a big American drivers' site which, although it has a few blind links, contains a great deal of interesting and pertinent reading. Look especially at the links about "Effects of Raising and Lowering Speed Limits" and "Speed Related Argument Database" - both very relevant to British drivers.
• The Association of British Drivers offers one of the few sensible voices in the often insane debate about road safety, speed limits and so-called "safety cameras" (which are, judging from the statistics they quote, anything BUT!). We love this beautifully-written and highly informative site - do visit it, but allow plenty of time - it's big!
• Think Road Safety, the Department for Transport's own website.
• Stand and Deliver details the working of the Tayside Speed Camera Conspiracy. This is a spoof website .... only, it sort of isn't ... if you see what we mean ...
• BRAKE, the well-known campaigning organisation.
• If you tell a lie often enough, people start to accept it as fact. The lie in question is that one third of all accidents are caused by speeding - it was even repeated recently by a spokesman for the RAC, of all organisations that ought to know better! It is completely untrue, as the One Third Lie website shows.
• Got a parking ticket? Appeal Now can help you fight it!
• RoSPA, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
• Pepipoo - helping the motorist to get justice. This site concentrates on the law - what it says, how it's supposed to work, how it actually does work, and what you should do if you fall foul of it.
• RS-1000, a "black box" for monitoring drivers' behaviour. Sinister.
• SpeedCam has lots of information about types of speed trap and how they are used, all illustrated with very clear photographs.
• Suffolk County Council's own pages about road safety, and Suffolk Roadsafe, their elegant new website.
• UK Speed Traps is mostly about the equipment used to catch you and the equipment you can use to counter it. Explains clearly the different types of speed camera.
• SafeCam, website of the Suffolk Safety Camera Partnership (but shouldn't that be "Speed Camera Partnership"?)
• Speed Cameras. A quote from their front page says it all, really: "More people die unnecessarily in hospitals from poor hygiene than in road traffic accidents. Yet the government's response to prevent 5000 unnecessary deaths a year in hospitals is to tell staff how to wash their hands. Meanwhile, poorly located speed cameras fail to prevent accidents (deaths were up 2% in 2003) and according to police data exceeding the speed limit is the cause of only 4% of accidents."
• Not only is SpeedLIMIT an excellent source of information and comment about British road safety, it's a well-designed, neat-looking site too.
• The RAC. Is this a representative motorists' organisation, or a commercial company?
• Safe Speed is probably the largest and most authoritative website about road safety.
• The Road Haulage Association - they need an improved A140 more than any of us!
• The AA. See our comment about the RAC above!
• SENSE, a road safety website from Canada which shows that, in British Columbia at least, people have more accidents the slower they drive! Click the link "Is speed killing us?"
An excellent local website
• The Stonham Tap is the website for the village of Stonham Parva. They've already conducted their own survey about the A140, and some of the responses reproduced on the site are very interesting. A surprising number of people think the speed limit through the village should be 40, not 30.
An issue of grave local concern
• Snoasis Concern is the campaign to stop developers erecting the world's largest artificial ski-slope just four miles down the road, along with houses, chalets, hotels, restaurants, blazing navigation lights (it'll be the height of 14 double-decker buses!) - and no new road-building to cope with the increased traffic. This traffic will mostly be on the A14 and the A12 but there's bound to be some effect on the A140 too.
Other campaigns like ours
• A formidable account by the Association of British Drivers giving details of approval, refusal, building etc. of hundreds of bypasses needed all over the country.
• Ridgemont, Bedfordshire
• Glossop, Derbyshire
• Earl Shilton, Leicestershire
• Longdendale, Manchester
• Banwell, Avon
• The A590, Cumbria
• Boston, Lincolnshire
Links to local councils
• Mid-Suffolk District Council
• Stonham Aspal
• Brome
• Brome Street
• Creeting St.Mary
• Earl Stonham
• Little Stonham (Stonham Parva)
• Mellis
• Mendlesham
• Mendlesham Green
• Thornham Parva
• Stoke Ash
• Stoke Ash & Thwaite
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