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Apparently yes, everything carries over regardless of where your license is issued.

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  On 10/04/2010 at 1:41 PM, kirjo said:

Good 'ol Captain Bligh. Too busy deploying speed cameras catching people doing 10kays over to stop the ships from destroying the Barrier Reef. She should be locked up.

10km/h over is still against the law, just like driving with a suspended licence is against the law. You can go on and on and on about how it is revenue raising, but if you don't break the law they don't get any revenue from you do they? If everyone is so pissed about how it is revenue raising, it is simple, obey the rules of the road.

Then again maybe get rid of the fines, up everyones tax? No thanks.

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  On 10/04/2010 at 1:31 PM, BionicXR6T said:

I went Sydney-Coffs return during Easter....

Left Sydney 1.00am Good Fri. and was in Coffs for brekky.....best time of the day to travel :beerchug:

Saw one unmarked cop at North Sydney and one marked at Clybucca....other than that....zilch....

Sat on the CB with the truckies up and back and even they were saying how few cops were out on the highway.....go figure? :dontknow:

I had class the thursday morning so didn't leave till 1pm-ish. So this was the thursday afternoon. Apparrently the traffic was backed up for kilometres at kempsey and macksville on the thursday morning so I'm glad I went to class.

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  On 11/04/2010 at 1:51 PM, winstor said:

it is simple, obey the rules of the road.

I would rather drop the soap and flynch than drive at a ridiculous speed that would put me to sleep and into a friggin tree....

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So I guess you would be all for 100km/h zones in residential areas? 100km/h on highways that run directly through residential areas that have peoples driveway access onto them? f*ck, may as well abolish the School Zone limits and up them to 100km/h as well. I do agree there are some stretches of road that could do with an unlimited or even a 130km/h speed limit, but you have to admit that some of the roads that it would be ideal for are in sh*thouse conditions. Trucks and towing vehicles would have to have limits applied to them however.

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I think the point most people are trying to make is that some of the speed limits imposed on some roads is ridiculous ... like roads that are set at 70km/hr that have a good shoulder and width, no driveways or side streets ... these types of roads are prayed upon and even possibly set at these low speeds for that reason.

Setting residential areas to 100km/hr is just an exaggerated and over the top example .... I'm sure most people on this forum would agree the even 50km/hr in our residential streets is too high when there's kids crossing and playing on roads.

The thing the sh1ts me to tears is the highways seem to be the major areas that are targeted for speeding, catching people doing 10 or 20 km over the limit where it's probably not "that dangerous". I think that the residential areas should be concentrated on as 10 or 20km over in these areas is far more detrimental to everyones safety ... especially our next generation.....

More money needs to be spent improving our roads, driver education and awareness rather then blowing millions of our tax money on cameras and unmarked cars to catch people ... prevention is a better solution ....

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Well said Ben.

And that's exactly what people hate about the police. They target you for doing 110km/h on an empty highway, yet you can drive around the city streets all day and hardly ever see a police car or camera where the risks in speeding are far more dangerous. In my town, they place the police camera on the most used section of road where the road is divided, 60km/h limit and has hardly any accidents in its history.

Another spot they love is a downhill stretch that is 80km/h until the bottom where it changes to 100. They sit in the bushes picking off people doing 90 as if they are a danger to the public, where all they did was coast down the hill not using their brakes as its a 100 zone at the bottom anyway. This road is four lane, divided and extremely safe....

The police are upset at society's general disrespect for their authority. But why would they respect an authority who seems to pick on innocent motorists rather than keeping our streets safe? For example, Friday nights - the streets are full of drunks beating people up, throwing up in the streets, vandelising, abusing. Its not all that safe to walk the main streets late at night. There are no police on foot. They are all in cars doing what? Posing as hoons and picking off anybody they can for the slightest traffic offense.

The differenc ebetween 100 and 110 on my speedo is a couple of millimetres. Am I really such a criminal? Why do I spend all my time looking at my speedo, and scanning the streets for cameras, rather than taking notice of the cars around me?

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the last 2 posts hit the nail on the head... its not that people want to break the law or disagree with all speed limits, its just a fact that the majority of them are set much too low for current vehicles and road quality.

New roads nowadays are so smooth, wide and safe whilst cars are just getting safer and safer in terms of internal saftey mechanisms like airbags and crumple zones and also in terms of mechanical ability to stop etc. Yet limits are continuously being lowered.

I'd have no problem with cameras etc being deployed in high risk areas with a history of fatalities, not just the busiest road with lots of hiding places to maximise revenue, cause that's exactly what they do.

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  On 11/04/2010 at 3:12 PM, winstor said:

So I guess

Yes...thats EXACTLY what I said isnt it... :rolleyes:

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