cobramad Member 824 Member For: 19y 4m 10d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 11/05/10 01:23 PM Share Posted 11/05/10 01:23 PM Where to begin...? Better driver education... Better roads... Safer and (especially for older vehicles) more roadworthy vehicles... Continuous review of current road laws... Incentives to drive cleaner, greener vehicles... that's just a beginning...Its easy to see why the pollies trot out the old "Speed Kills" mantra and impose even more draconian penalties and fines... That takes no real skill and effort while some if not all of the above takes real resolve and more importantly, COSTS MONEY!!When the Multanova cameras were introduced in WA ages ago, it was just before the Easter long weekend. Over the next four days, those four cameras paid for themselves.. The rest of the revenue since then is just cream.Just try to get exact figures that just the cameras themselves rake in and you will find its impossible to get a clear figure, merely a number that is muddied and included in whats called "Consolidatd Revenue". Its clear that they dont want to say exactly how much they make from camera fines... I for one would feel a bit better if they spent those many dollars on the above ideas to help change and improve the situation. Fat chance, the bucks are just too tempting.. Call me cynical if you will...Mal K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,425 Member For: 14y 11m 3d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 11/05/10 01:34 PM Share Posted 11/05/10 01:34 PM auscraft I no how u feel, im from melb too and recently over a dozen or so new cameras have been installed in my suburb and surrounding alone. I counted em. every intersection I use daily has one. I spend more time watching my speedo than the road these day, see what cameras have done, taken my eye off the road more.not good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dule Donating Members 1,180 Member For: 17y 7m 12d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 11/05/10 11:11 PM Share Posted 11/05/10 11:11 PM You boys down there have it real tough, the amount of cameras is just redicilous. Every time I come back from Melbourne, I live in fear for a month expecting a fine or two. And the driving experience...The worst thing is NSW is just few years behind, we'll get there soon enough.I'm all for public protest of some sort, but you need to get general population on board. Imagine a bunch of performance car drivers protesting about speed cameras? I can already see the headlines, "Hoons protesting against life saving speed cameras". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auscraft YBSLOW Member 281 Member For: 16y 3m 16d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 11/05/10 11:16 PM Author Share Posted 11/05/10 11:16 PM I totally agree with you, it would not look good from that perspective. But we have to start somewhere as they have all of us "drivers" by the throat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MICKAJ Member 245 Member For: 16y 9m 2d Posted 12/05/10 01:19 AM Share Posted 12/05/10 01:19 AM VicRoads has zero to do with cameras, that would be DOJ. I personally think they are great, over the next 10 years you will see culture changes at intersections. There are that many right turner crashing into through drivers its not funny. Someone is obviously to blame and red light runners are knobs.On another note expect cameras to be operating in the Ring Road works zones as of next week. They will be behind the temporary barriers and you will not see them or the operators at all as they will be concealed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeze_dk I am dissatisfied with my current employment situation Donating Members 8,610 Member For: 18y 2m Gender: Male Posted 12/05/10 01:37 AM Share Posted 12/05/10 01:37 AM hey need to stop wasting money on cameras and start planting trees instead.. there cheap,, good for the environment and its the only thing that stops speeding drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-wolf Member 897 Member For: 17y 7m 3d Gender: Male Location: ACT Posted 12/05/10 01:53 AM Share Posted 12/05/10 01:53 AM Mobile speed camera numbers to increaseSnap: Speed cameras are going under cover in NSW and Queensland.11 May 2010NEW South Wales and Queensland will introduce covert mobile digital speed cameras from July, with NSW cameras also getting number-plate recognition technology to capture unregistered and uninsured vehicles.At: General News - Mobile speed camera numbers to increase | GoAuto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillz Three pedals are better then two.. Donating Members 15,637 Member For: 17y 6m 2d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 12/05/10 02:11 AM Share Posted 12/05/10 02:11 AM Didn't realise this weeks camera thread was due yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 22y 14d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 12/05/10 02:34 AM Share Posted 12/05/10 02:34 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete A Member 442 Member For: 15y 11m 25d Gender: Male Location: Castle Hill NSW Posted 12/05/10 02:58 AM Share Posted 12/05/10 02:58 AM Look, I'm not in favour of all these cameras like most people. However, on the other side I see freaking idiots every day running red lights at major intersections and speeding through the same intersections. There are no or not enough coppers to catch them. Maybe the knowledge that they eventually will all be cameras of some sort may deter them. A friend of mine was killed a couple years back by a DH running a red light. So it's a pain yes, but maybe it is necessary. Let's face it, running a red light and speeding at the same time through these intersections, people WILL die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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