Traffic Cameras - Have They Gone Mad?

[Dagabond]

replacing the state's outdated cameras with new digital systems capable not only detecting speed, but also of reading number plates.

WTF do they do now....

[Auscraft]

They have gone completely nuts, they just became addicted to the revenue.

If all the money they were receiving from fines went back into the roads and improvement of black spots etc , I would say - fare enough, they are trying to reduce road tolls, but NO, who cares about ordinary Joe. They will just keep on heating us with bigger fines.

[Paulie2256]

WTF do they do now....

They aren't capable of reading plates. I think its just a normal photo that someone literally has to look at and issue the fine manually.

The new cameras have LPR (like OCR on your scanner). The computer can read the plate and check it against a database/issue your fine automatically.

I think ch9 should make an underbelly series on corrupt governments and revenue raising from speeding motorists. hahah

I like it how the opposition always admit it’s just revenue raising and as soon as they get in power they change their mind.

[f-wolf]

WA Police To Roll Out New Speed Cameras, Boost Yearly Revenue By $120m

Jun 14, 2010

The Western Australian Government has announced it will double the number of speed cameras working the state's roads, growing fine revenue by about $120 million in the first year of the new cameras' operation.

WA Police Minister Rob Johnson said he expects revenue to fall as driver behaviour changes for the better.

As part of the rollout, WA will also become the first state to use hand-held digital camera systems, called TruCam, to detect speeding vehicles from as far as 1.2 kilometres away.

As with mobile cameras fixed to vehicles, the digital cameras will allow police to issue fines automatically, rather than needing to stop offending drivers on the road. This new approach means that individual officers will have the capacity to catch dozens more speeding motorists in the same amount of time.

"We'll certainly use them in school zones, where there is a lot of traffic and these cause little interference to the traffic, and a range of other areas where there is congestion, or lots of pedestrians, those sorts of things, where we don't need a lot of space," WA Police Commander Michelle Fyfe told the ABC this week.

. .In total, 14 hand-held digital cameras and 13 fixed speed and red-light cameras will join the state's existing camera network, at a cost of $30 million.

From : WA Police To Roll Out New Speed Cameras, Boost Yearly Revenue By $120m | Reviews | Prices | Australian specifications

[Auscraft]

I think it will get to the point where every traffic light will have a fixed camera, in between we will have few additional fixed cameras hidden behind the trees or bushes and then you will have mobile operated cameras spread out through the streets.

The good thing is that people will pay a lot of attention to the speed they traveling at.

The worst thing is that the Government will start to loose revenue and will install even more cameras, even in your local car wash.

The Government has become infectious with this money making Decease. And their Doctor is only suggesting where to place new cameras instead of thinking how to get rid of drugs from streets, build new hospitals, and how to make living for ordinary people comfortable again. But all of that is seems to be not important any more.

Is there a pill or a poison for our Government to take to get it cured from this illness?

And our coppers will suffer too , as whatever respect we have for them will dissolve in rediculous fines they will be ordered to give us.

Unfortunately many of them are just brain washed soldiers who are just following their orders and really believe that 3 km/h is a good enough reason to punish you and fine you.

So what do we do?

[400KwXr6t]

we get $2 spray cans and do a blitz and spray the lenses of the cameras in one night, Fight club style.

Then see how much revenue vs accidents we stop in the one night.

Then take it to 60 minutes and do a story that everyone agrees that they dont work as well as driver training would do.

THEN the government say they are not revenue raising and put in more cameras, and we go round in circles again. weeeeee

FIxed ones yes in black spots, but signpost them.

[Auscraft]

so we should, it got to the point where I feel we are simply humiliated and nothing we wanna do to fight it back.

Edited 16/06/10 02:00 PM by Auscraft

[f-wolf]

From the UK

Speed camera 'cash cow' dries up

Thursday, 17 June 2010

Local authorities will no longer be able to use speed cameras as a "cash cow", the Government confirmed today.

No more money will be provided by the Government to councils for new fixed speed cameras, junior transport minister Mike Penning told the Commons at question time.

All of it at : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/speed-camera-cash-cow-dries-up-2003115.html

[Auscraft]

Don't worry, the Council will increase our rates to get the money for new cameras.

Edited 18/06/10 03:18 PM by Dagabond

[f-wolf]

Victoria's Massive Increase In Mobile Speed Camera Fines A Revenue-Raising Effort: State Opposition

Jun 21, 2010

In a call that some would describe as stating the bleeding obvious, Victoria's State Opposition Roads Spokesperson Terry Mulder has claimed that the Victorian Government is using its mobile speed camera network as little more than a revenue-raising program.

Referring to figures obtained through the Freedom Of Information Act, Mr Mulder said that around 150,225 motorists had been caught speeding by mobile cameras in the first three months of this year, compared to 138,191 for the same period last year.

The figures also showed that fines issued by officers on the road had dropped eight percent compared to the first quarter of 2009, and fines from fixed speed cameras had dropped by three percent.

Mr Mulder singled out the South-West, where mobile speed camera fines increased from 2990 in the first quarter of 2009, to 3699 in the same period this year.

"Everyone knows that the number of police officers in the south-west is below satisfactory levels so there has been less on-the-spot fines issued and more of this underhanded form of speed monitoring," Mr Mulder told News Ltd.

. .Mr Mulder said that the Victorian Government has likely put pressure on mobile speed camera operators to make up the difference, particularly with the end of the financial year in sight.

From : Victoria Increasing Mobile Speed Camera Fines To Meet Budget Forecasts: State Opposition | Reviews | Prices | Australian specifications