Radar detectors, speed cameras and speeding fines
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2010
If you say $200 billion quickly it really doesn’t sound like that much. From Ross Greenwood of Money News Right now the Federal Government is at pains to tell everyone ˆ including us the mug-punters to the International Monetary Fund – that it will not exceed its own, self-imposed, borrowing limits. How much? $200 billion. [...]
Posted in Western Australia on Mar 31st, 2010
SPEED-CAMERA operations look set to be privatised in WA, prompting fears that profiteering might overtake road-safety priorities. Police Minister Rob Johnson revealed yesterday that his staff had been involved in “introductory meetings” with British firm Serco, which wanted to run WA’s multimillion-dollar speed-camera operations. Mr Johnson admitted that privatising speed and red-light operations was on [...]
Posted in New South Wales on Mar 29th, 2010
NSW Transport Minister, Mr David Campbell, will today announce details of a $170 million package aimed at lowering the state’s road toll. As part of the package, the NSW government will reintroduce mobile speed cameras. The cameras will be placed in unmarked cars parked beside the road and will be operated by civilian contractors, similar [...]
Posted in Victoria on Mar 27th, 2010
New speed camera figures show an 80-per-cent increase in fines issued in some parts of Victoria. The figures obtained by the Opposition show motorists were booked more than 155,000 times in the last three months of 2009. The Opposition’s roads spokesman, Terry Mulder, says the figures were forecast in last year’s state budget. He says [...]
Posted in Victoria on Mar 8th, 2010
A Road safety expert bodly states that a crackdown on speeding is NOT the answer to reducing the road toll in Australia. The vice-president of safety development for Mercedes-Benz, Ulrich Mellinghoff, says crash-avoidance systems, better roads and more roundabouts would do more to cut the road toll than tougher speeding laws. The approach is in [...]
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