road safety or cash income?

the latest 'safety' initiative is to reduce the speed limits on some of our nation's roads. The government is proposing reducing urban A roads from 60 to 50mph, and imposing a 20mph speed limit in towns / around schools. Around schools, yes that's great during school hour's / term time. But all the time? at 10pm? 2am? all through the summer holidays? And, they want to put the average speed camera's at all roads into n out of towns, timing every motorist and issuing speeding tickets! Surely this isn't safety more a way of making yet more money out of the hard pressed working population, without appearing to put taxes up? They say it's to reduce road deaths, but how many deaths are just caused by idiots who don't pay any attention when walking? we have all seen it, and nearly hit someone because of it - when they cross in stupid places, between parked car's, on blind bends etc, or just cross a side road without checking for turning traffic first! Educate these idiots instead of always blaming the poor person in the car!