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| Camera scrapped to cut tailbacks | Camera scrapped to cut tailbacks |
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| A controversial motorway speed camera is being removed in a bid to ease congestion on a section of the M4. | A controversial motorway speed camera is being removed in a bid to ease congestion on a section of the M4. |
| Motorists, braking as they see it, have been blamed for causing tailbacks of up to five miles in the westbound lanes near junction 41 at Port Tablot. | Motorists, braking as they see it, have been blamed for causing tailbacks of up to five miles in the westbound lanes near junction 41 at Port Tablot. |
| It will be replaced by electronic signs displaying the speed of each vehicle, but not recording their details. The 50 mph speed limit will remain. | It will be replaced by electronic signs displaying the speed of each vehicle, but not recording their details. The 50 mph speed limit will remain. |
| Tory AM Alun Cairns said the camera's position had always been "nonsensical". | Tory AM Alun Cairns said the camera's position had always been "nonsensical". |
| An assembly government spokesman said the camera would be removed early in the new year. | An assembly government spokesman said the camera would be removed early in the new year. |
| He said there were problems with congestion on the westbound lanes of the motorway at Port Talbot. | He said there were problems with congestion on the westbound lanes of the motorway at Port Talbot. |
| "We are working with the South Wales Safety Camera Partnership on the M4 junction 41 and will be supplying two electronic vehicle actuated speed display signs," he added. | "We are working with the South Wales Safety Camera Partnership on the M4 junction 41 and will be supplying two electronic vehicle actuated speed display signs," he added. |
| West bound congestion of a Friday evening regularly tails back in excess of five miles Alun Cairns AM | West bound congestion of a Friday evening regularly tails back in excess of five miles Alun Cairns AM |
| "These will be located on the westbound side but further east on this 50mph section of motorway." | "These will be located on the westbound side but further east on this 50mph section of motorway." |
| Mr Cairns, who is South Wales West AM, said he had raised the effectiveness of the camera on several occasions at the assembly. | Mr Cairns, who is South Wales West AM, said he had raised the effectiveness of the camera on several occasions at the assembly. |
| "This has been an issue for some time because the siting of the speed camera has always been nonsensical," he said. | "This has been an issue for some time because the siting of the speed camera has always been nonsensical," he said. |
| "Being so close to a junction it causes a lot of congestion where there is not a history of accidents. | "Being so close to a junction it causes a lot of congestion where there is not a history of accidents. |
| "Westbound congestion of a Friday evening regularly tails back in excess of five miles because people brake through instinct on observing the camera even when they are travelling within the speed limit." | |
| WAG said there were no plans to remove the nearby speed camera that covered the eastbound lanes. | WAG said there were no plans to remove the nearby speed camera that covered the eastbound lanes. |