It's not revenue gathering

[Gremlin]

You decide. I'm not one to bash the cops for anything and everything, but I wasn't impressed with this camera placement over Christmas / New Years.

It was on SH2 between Opotiki and Gisborne, about 40km out of Gisborne with the van pointing south, camera pointing north. 10km of open roads minimum either side.

3 road markers out, the camera van was completely hidden. First pic shows the road from the direction the camera is pointing, the next 3 moving towards the van, with the bike parked pretty much opposite the van all the time.

I was on a day trip to Gisborne, and promised if it was still there upon my return, I would stop and take some pictures. I also assisted the van in getting the slow down message across, while I was stopped there.

[shafty]

Seems straight forward to me...........Cash Cheque or Credit Card?

[davebullet]

Did you get pinged?

[thepom]

if its an camera van and unmanned,whats to srop you breaking in and stealing the camera?

[oneofsix]

Is he still on the roadside? Looks to be in line with the cattle ramp which I presume is on private property.
My favorite road "safety" poster is one where they show a speed camera photo of a car on a flat straight road with the tag "last family photo". Always made me think "proves speed cameras don't save lives", if a cop had stopped the driver then it may have saved a live but a photo fine after the incident is not going to and now they are hiding there is even less chance of them being road safety related.

[Scuba_Steve]

"its not revenue gathering" "its saving lives"... Oh and congratulations you've just won the random lottery you never entered, the IRD wanna give you back $461.48, some Russian chick thinks your hot & wants to get with you, & some dead guy left a whole lot of money that someone wants to split with you.

[Jdogg]

not really hidden, I could see it by the third pic, which, judging by the distance would give you plenty of time to have a brake/speed check.....seen much worse, for example heading towards tauranga via te puke, just as you get onto the (only) passing lane just after the first papamoa beach turn off, it sits just in a little parking bay after the first left hander! almost had me....

[vifferman]

I don't believe speed cameras contribute anything towards road safety (unless someone is pinged repeatedly and can't afford to risk any more fines). By the time you get the ticket, you've already sped and killed lots of people (I know - the random signs on the side of the road tell me: "You speed, people die"). Then you have to work out when, where, what the circumstances were, etc. and it's all TOO LATE to bring those people back to life. And too late for you to go, "Oops! I should slow down.." (especially if you never knew you'd been flashed, like my only speed camera ticket, and my wife's only two ever tickets.

[ukusa]

I also assisted the van in getting the slow down message across, while I was stopped there.

ha ha, good on ya mate! If the message is to slow down, why not park near camera vans warning the motorist to slow down before the camera.

[Bikemad]

Seems straight forward to me...........rock through window

what he really wanted to say...........me......i would have taken the time to put a tiny pebble under the valve dustcap on a front wheel..........

[Smifffy]

Is he still on the roadside? Looks to be in line with the cattle ramp which I presume is on private property.
My favorite road "safety" poster is one where they show a speed camera photo of a car on a flat straight road with the tag "last family photo". Always made me think "proves speed cameras don't save lives", if a cop had stopped the driver then it may have saved a live but a photo fine after the incident is not going to and now they are hiding there is even less chance of them being road safety related.

ha ha, good on ya mate! If the message is to slow down, why not park near camera vans warning the motorist to slow down before the camera.

It's the same day David! ad campaign illustrated exactly the same point, which, I believe was one of the reasons it got pulled a few years back.

IMO if you slowed down a few vehicles while you were poncing about taking photos then you did more for road safety on that stretch of road in that time than the van man did all day.

If speed really does kill, then why aren't TPTB trying to curb it, rather than exploit it.

I would have thought they would slow more vehicles down, If they had huge fuck off signs plastered around the area saying "Speed camera operating in area" and 1/4 mile out in each direction another sign saying speed camera nearby.

Then a hi viz van with disco gear, and maybe a sign saying, now speed past me ya fuckers!

[Smifffy]

I followed a private contractor (presumably) on his way to set up his van in the Manawatu one morning. We were doing 120 km/h.

Hypocrite.

[KoroJ]

At least it didn't come with Demerits!

[red mermaid]

Yeah Right!

what he really wanted to say...........me......i would have taken the time to put a tiny pebble under the valve dustcap on a front wheel..........

There are no private contractors doing speed camera work.

I followed a private contractor (presumably) on his way to set up his van in the Manawatu one morning. We were doing 120 km/h.

Hypocrite.

[Smifffy]

Yeah Right!




There are no private contractors doing speed camera work.

Oh, ok. Has there ever been? Dude looked way older than most cops I've ever seen and had no semblance of a uniform about him. That's why I picked him for a contractor.

Maybe he was a sworn officer following a vehicle of operational significance down the Newbury Line at 8 am on a Saturday morning.