Britain proposes to reduce speed limits w/cameras...with pay to play rules

Cameras that detect average speed will be deployed on hundreds of miles of motorway under a Government plan to force all drivers to comply with variable limits.
Drivers will no longer be able to exceed the limit knowing that police rarely prosecute anyone driving at less than 85mph on motorways. They will also no longer be able to slow down when they spot a camera.
 
Unlike Gatso or Truvelo cameras, which typically cover less than 100 yards, average-speed cameras work in pairs to cover several miles. They use numberplate recognition to record the time it takes a driver to travel between any two points and work out the average speed.
The Department for Transport (DfT) is developing plans for the rapid installation of average-speed cameras, starting with the 500 miles of motorway where it is planning to turn the hard shoulder into a running lane. The limit will be reduced to 50mph or 60mph, with gantries over the motorway carrying signs and cameras.
function pictureGalleryPopup(pubUrl,articleId) {var newWin = window.open(pubUrl+'template/2.0-0/element/pictureGalleryPopup.jsp?id='+articleId+'&&offset=0&&sectionName=Driving','mywindow','menubar=0,resizable=0,width=615,height=655');} 
The DfT is considering “how quickly could we migrate from spot to average-speed enforcement and how extensively could average-speed enforcement be applied”.
 
It also entails converting the hard shoulder into a running lane and, from 2010, turning one lane into a toll lane with a higher speed limit.  (you have to PAY to drive fast)
 
[URL]http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/article3508185.ece[/URL]

If i have to PAY to drive fast, you better bloody well believe I'm going to drive however the hell fast i want to. They don't realize the slower you make traffic travel, the more accidents you have. there will always be people who never make it to that second camera so they'll drive just as fast as they want to, but if they run into slow moving traffic they're likely to drive erratically. 

[quote=Article]But the AA said that the measure could undermine safety because drivers would become frustrated by vehicles adhering strictly to the limit and would drive too close to them.[/quote]

that's exactly the problem there. People driving slow cause more accidents than speeders. Especially when driving without lane etiquette, driving 50mph in a lane meant for passing is more dangerous than sticking to travel lanes at elevated speed limits and allowing the faster moving traffic to pass on the Right, (Left in LHD countries).

I don't know.