Residents are now being trained up to catch speeding motorists. Volunteers and police were out over the weekend as the much-trailed operation to tackle speeding took to the streets. The Community Speed Watch scheme was first approved back in 2021 and has been hotly debated and anticipated ever since.
Over the last weekend, volunteers armed with speed cameras took to the streets to help monitor traffic around hotspot areas, like Bradford Road in Farnworth . Cllr Nadeem Ayub, of Farnworth North, said: “Bradford Road has long been a hotspot area for speeding and a cause of concern. “A number of residents have highlighted this with us and it us something that we have repeatedly taken to the police.
The community speed watch scheme has long been under discussion (Image: GMP) “We have reported this to the police on many occasions and have often had the response that resources are limited and things like that. “So, a scheme like this that involves members of the community and allows them to help deal with speeding really does help to tackle this issue.” The community speed watch scheme was first proposed by the then Cllr Madeleine Murry, of Great Lever, in 2021 as a way of dealing with long running concerns about speeding.
It was since backed by both the Labour and Conservative groups. Volunteers were out over the last week (Image: GMP) Bolton Council heard last December that volunteers had been recruited in Farnworth to take part in the scheme, we could also potentially b.
