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The Cat & Fiddle has long been a popular road with bikers. A long campaign to try and reduce the number of casualties has been taken to a new level. There are now 5 average speed cameras along the length of the route which must surely mean it is game over for speeding on this road. 

I am not a biker, I do appreciate the upland environment and feel strongly about appropriate development within national parks. The new average speed cameras are a hideous eye sore. Safety considerations aside, these cameras and gantries required to suspend them can be seen from over 2 miles away. The surrounding moorland of the A537 was unspoilt apart from the Cat & Fiddle pub and a few small road signs. The installation of these monstrous 'safety cameras' is akin to vandalising the environment.

The determined biker can still go as fast as they like on the route. The cameras are badly placed such that riders can stop for a break prior to the next camera long enough that their average falls within the legal limit. This is particularly true of the stretch between Macclesfield and the summit. As long as the biker stops at the Cat & Fiddle, they can go as fast as they wish and wont get trapped. As such I doubt that the cameras will catch many culprits.

The only thing the police have achieved is wreck the beauty of a valuable upland area of national park.