An email to Jim Moore - Manager of the newly formed All Wales Safety Camera Partnership.

Dear Jim,

Congratulations on your new position as manager of the newly formed All Wales Safety Camera Partnership which is an amalgamation of North Mid and South Wales Partnerships.

Carl Sargeant AM has written to me enclosing a letter by Ieuan Wyn Jones AM Minister for Economy and Transport explaining the new system and your appointment.

I live in Chester Rd, Penyffordd, Nr Mold and have been campaigning with the help of the Evening Leader and Carl Sargeant AM about a daily 1000+ vehicles which speed passed my house which is in the middle of Penyffordd, a major route to school with a 30 mph speed limit. At one stage is was around 2000 vehicles a day but has lessened due to Evening Leader publicity and a pro active speed sign installed in one direction with half a set of rumble strips.

Quite frankly it has been an uphill struggle from the initial "its nothing to do with us" attitude from certain councillors within the village.

Then followed a struggle with the Arrive Alive Partnership for the data harvested on two separate occasions. My first communication with Arrive Alive was met with the request to take some registration numbers of speeders. I can't get my CBM interested in speeding traffic so a couple of 1000 speeder's registrations seemed like a wasted effort.

My 1st Arrive Alive FOIE for data held was thrown into the long grass with eventual rejection for operational reasons.

The use of operational reasons to block anonymous data that shows the danger to Penyffordd village I found reprehensible.

My 2nd Arrive Alive FOIE for the traffic speed data for the whole of Flintshire was rebuffed on the grounds that it would take too many man hours to fulfill

As someone who has had a computer for 20 years and knowledge of current DVD copying and storage I found this excuse risible.

I am fully aware of the equipment and software used to measure traffic speeds in Flintshire.

I have tried various FOIE's to Flintshire County Council. This has led to a "loss" of about 4 FOIE's that didn't get there.

FCC now have an auto system in place that gives you a number. - Progress!. Still no success though, plenty of stonewalling, FOIE rules appear to be for other county councils. Currently my complaint is with FCC scrutiny. Again emails go missing.

Flintshire County Council is like a black hole for emails.

Their latest ploy has been to change software wasting rate payers money so that I am unable to look at traffic data on MS Excel

Currently I have Flintshire County Council, Arrive Alive and North Wales Police all acting in synch to avoid doing anything about speeding traffic in Chester Rd, Penyffordd. Quite frankly the three agencies are a disgrace.

I hope your tenure in charge of the All Wales Safety Camera Partnership will be one of leadership, transparency and of being pro active in helping Welsh Communities fight the modern plague of anti social speeding in communities. This I am sure will help to bring down serious accidents and death caused by vehicles in Wales.

Sincerely Colin Hughes

Penyffordd District

key words: Chief Superintendent Ruth Purdie, Cllr Tony Sharps Northop Hall, Carl Longland Director of Environment Flintshire County Council

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