MOTORISTS in York still face the introduction of fixed speed cameras despite similar plans being shelved by neighbouring North Yorkshire County Council.

City of York Council’s head of city strategy, Coun Steve Galloway, said he was seeking a meeting with North Yorkshire chief constable, Grahame Maxwell to accelerate plans for the introduction of speed cameras in the city.

Coun Galloway said: “We have experienced considerable success in reducing the number of people killed and injured on York’s roads by 35 per cent over the past two years.

“However, you still need that formal sanction and those who systematically break the speed limits need to know that sooner or later they will be caught.”

Coun Galloway said the council had its share of the funding for the scheme in place.

Meanwhile, North Yorkshire County Council’s planned speed camera pilot scheme will now not go ahead for at least 12 months.

The council had agreed in principle to the scheme, but a decision due to be taken on it by councillors in May was deferred because of doubt about the funding implications. Privately, it is thought that there is little appetite at the county council to introduce the cameras, particularly as central Government funding has recently been cut.

A spokeswoman said: “We deferred a small-scale pilot study on the use of mobile safety cameras at dangerous locations until more detail can be obtained on how the study would be evaluated and also on funding implications.”

Coun Gareth Dadd, executive member for transport at the county council, said it would be reviewed in 12 months.

Referring to fixed speed cameras – which could have followed the mobile devices if the trial had been successful – he said: “At the present time there is no intention to install fixed speed cameras in North Yorkshire.”

The coalition Government has cut road safety grants by 40 per cent in a move that will limit the cash councils can spend on speed cameras.