More hi-tech speed cameras

[Zedder]

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11853606

33 new sites announced.

Cheers Swoop, I read that today too and was looking back at a January 2016 article on revenue for the top 20 speed cameras in NZ. They brought in $25 million for 2015, the same year the road toll was 321, the highest since 2010 when it was 375.

[Scuba_Steve]

If the one in Temuka is on the North side it's a bloody joke. That town and Tinwald have the longest bloody unnecessarily slow main drags on SH1 I know of.

The Ellesmere one would appear to be positioned to catch speedway spectators...Again, why ? No majors I know of.

The answers pretty simple really...

[Jeff Sichoe]

Good news, more fixed cameras = more policing time spent on crime rather than punishing those who break the road rules (two very different things)

[Mike.Gayner]

Good news, more fixed cameras = more policing time spent on crime rather than punishing those who break the road rules (two very different things)

How do you figure?

[Jeff Sichoe]

blind optimism that additional revenue will be directed to the frontlines (lol)

[FJRider]

Good news, more fixed cameras = more policing time spent on crime rather than punishing those who break the road rules (two very different things)

As I understand ... non sworn staff handle the speed camera programs ... with little human input in the initial programming stages ... with the disputed results needing human input.

Money for jam really ...

[FJRider]

blind optimism that additional revenue will be directed to the frontlines (lol)

Revenue from speed camera fines go directly into the Government Consolidated fund. For our noble leader to then decide ... where it will be spent. (probably mostly on Social Welfare)

[FJRider]

If the one in Temuka is on the North side it's a bloody joke. That town and Tinwald have the longest bloody unnecessarily slow main drags on SH1 I know of.

The Temuka one will be on State Highway 1 south of Temuka, between Huirapa St and Hopkinson Rd.

[Grumph]

The Temuka one will be on State Highway 1 south of Temuka, between Huirapa St and Hopkinson Rd.

Well, fuck, why ? Is it going to stop trucks going off the bridges ? Locals pulling out of driveways onto the main road ?

[RDJ]

Well, fuck, why ? Is it going to stop trucks going off the bridges ? Locals pulling out of driveways onto the main road ?

It won't. But you knew that.

Speed cameras are all and only about revenue. And you knew that.

When there is a police focus on speed and the road toll rises do they reverse their dips**t strategy?

Of course not. And we know that.

[oldrider]

It won't. But you knew that.

Speed cameras are all and only about revenue. And you knew that.

When there is a police focus on speed and the road toll rises do they reverse their dips**t strategy?

Of course not. And we know that.

And they say that knowledge is all powerful - so what does all that knowing mean for us at the end of the day? - SFA! - - Gotcha! $$$$$$$

[RDJ]

Agreed. Sierra Foxtrot Alpha.

But, we end up paying the fine for 104 km/hr so the Popo can feel they are doing a Great Job and the Politicos can Signal their Virtue.

Hypocritical Bassards All.

[Akzle]

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But, we end up paying the fine

i don't .

[awayatc]

In the city I grew up in they also installed a number of speed cameras in and around the city...(venlo in nethetlands)
One Monday morning they found all the post cut down and all the cameras chucked in the river....

Never found the "culprit(s)"....

I wonder if we ever get fed up enough here in NZ to actually revolt against this extortion...?

[Ocean1]

In the city I grew up in they also installed a number of speed cameras in and around the city...(venlo in nethetlands)
One Monday morning they found all the post cut down and all the cameras chucked in the river....

Never found the "culprit(s)"....

I wonder if we ever get fed up enough here in NZ to actually revolt against this extortion...?

In the UK it's a running battle, I think they lost over 400 in one year to fire damage, (that might have been just London now that I think about it).

As in, drop a tyre around the post, fill it with petrol, toss a match and move on to the next one.