Road Safety Bill [HL]

The other day, I was walking home from Golders Green Tube station towards my home in Temple Fortune Lane in NW11, which is known as a leafy suburb. I happened to see two new, yellow insignia indicating that cameras had been installed in my lane. It used to be a historic lane that at one time led from Jack Straw’s Castle to the Bell in Hendon. Dick Turpin used to run down there—that was a while ago. I wondered why the yellow signs were there. They just appeared over the weekend. They were there because people are rampaging up and down my lane as though they were in the Indianapolis 500. They killed my cat—which was sad for the cat. Why were the cameras put there? They were put there because people were behaving badly. They come round a roundabout at the end of the road, and they have about a quarter of a mile to go until they reach Finchley Road where they can turn to go to Glasgow and other desirable places. It is a straight lane. They whiz along as though they are in a hurry to get to Glasgow. I understand that, but they cannot all be in a hurry to get to Glasgow. Why on earth should they not be stopped from misbehaving in my lane, where I have lived for 50 years? I cannot understand the fundamental selfishness of motorists who are—I shall not say, utterly—but, at least, partially, deplorable. My noble friend Lord Berkeley is, as always, absolutely right.