Snapper <snapper1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>Here's a beauty.
>http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23661161-5000117,00.html
>It refers to the soon to be opened Eastlink tollway in Melbourne's east.
>The state budget was handed down the other night and as re****ted, the
>government expects revenue to rise based on patronage of this new road.
>It will have banks of fixed speed cameras, mobile police patrols and
>roadside car speed cameras.
Hmmm, who's funding this road? Any bet it's the state government and this
is
how they plan to recoup the expenditure before the next Vic state
election.
8-)
>Now, as Mitchell pointed out, the government and police drum into us that
>speed cameras aren't about revenue. Rather, they're about "saving lives".
>Cameras are set up where there are known hot spots for crashes, and
>problematic excessive speeds.
Not in Sydney - is *every* single school zone a 'known hot spot for
crashes'? I don't think so. A lot of school zones are set up on major
roads
and many roads have multiple school zones, so it's a clear revenue raiser
designed to catch people multiple times and annoy motorists because the
average speed tends to drop to around 40 any time school zone restrictions
are in force.
I'd love to see stats on how many fines are issued by automatic school
zone
speed cameras during school zone times compared to how many are issued by
speed cameras in other areas during the same times.
>However, Eastlink, a brand new multilane, modern, state-of-the-art
divided
>carriageway, hasn't even opened.
>So, folks, it IS about revenue. The government budgets for it. No
>government will concede that it is about revenue raising. No government,
>to put their mouthes where their money is, will plough speeding fine
>revenue back into road safety programs. Rather, it goes into consolidated
>revenue.
Well in this case it's very clearly about revenue and nothing else, but
it'll get mashed up into safety culture awareness by the government
marketting the new road on it's 'safety' merits! Lets hope it doesn't turn
into another Sydney M5 - ie. the 'choko'. 8-)
Craig.
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