Hi tech speed camera in Wellington gorge earns $

[MD]

How can the Police spokesperson keep a straight face sprotting such rubbish and blatant lies.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news...w-speed-camera

So no ones been killed or hurt in Ngauranga Gorge for years but somehow it's still a danger spot. Of the 2 fatalities in the 1990s one I recall was a cyclist who lost his balance and fell under the wheels of a passing truck. Neither the truck or cyclist were speeding.

In the article he states, most caught were just over the limit! WTF, then clearly there is not an excess of vehicles doing the ton down the gorge threatening the lives of all and sundry living within 500m of ground zero (as they seem to think it is).

It's such a clever camera, they can apparently tell that drivers are inattentive and daydreaming! Bugger me. I didn't know a camera had been invented that can detect what a person is thinking. Or he just made that up like his other lies to justify issuing hundreds of tickets to people NOT endangering anything more than the paint on the bumper in front of them.

What absolute bollocks. This is entrapment at it's finest.

[Swoop]

So.
Get to work on it straight away!

An old tyre over the top, then set it on fire. Viola!

[mashman]

Gotz to getz dem revenuez somehow, z.

[Gremlin]

What absolute bollocks. This is entrapment at it's finest.

If anything, everyone braking for the camera (and then being comfortably under the speed limit) makes things more interesting especially on a steepish hill.

I remember my first trip down that way. I was lost, I came down the onramp just up from the camera (having just come up the gorge unintentionally), accelerated onto the motorway, then realised it was 80 not 100, plus the camera and had to slam the brakes on... sheesh.

[Grubber]

It says that the slightly over the speed limit fines would have saved lives if there was an accident.
So we should just drive at 5 kph then to save all of us.

I see $$$$$$$ in the bank here for sure.

[awa355]

25 crashes in 7 years, How many vehicles went over that stretch of road in that time?? And what relevence is a time frame that ended 17 years ago.

[FJRider]

It's in Wellington ... who cares ...

[Gremlin]

It's in Wellington ... who cares ...

It's between me and the South Island... ergo... I care

[scumdog]

It's in Wellington ... who cares ...

Yeah, look at the bright side - it's nowhere near me!

[FJRider]

It's between me and the South Island... ergo... I care

The upgrade of that camera was done months ago .. well publicized then ... you can't claim you weren't aware it was there ..

[Gremlin]

The upgrade of that camera was done months ago .. well publicized then ... you can't claim you weren't aware it was there ..

I know the location now... Don't really care what's there. Sadly... I haven't been to Wellington (or more importantly, the South Island) since early last year

[MD]

The upgrade of that camera was done months ago .. well publicized then ... you can't claim you weren't aware it was there ..

For the record it's never caught me in 25+ years of weekly commuting up and down that gorge. What gets me is in all those thousands of trips I've made, I've only come across the odd minor fender bender, usually caused by lane changers interacting with others slamming on brakes to avoid a minor camera fine.

It's the principle of calling it a safety requirement that pisses me off. One of the busiest roads in and out of Wgtn and it has been safe for over 17 years straight, so please lets not lie and claim it's a dangerous spot. It was a 100kph zone for decades before that. The world did not end.

[merv]

Yes and the bastards lowered the speed limit when they rebuilt it at the top removing the intersection and they said when the work would be finished the speed limit would be restored - how long ago was that? It never happened.

[Erelyes]

Hissuing hundreds of tickets to people NOT endangering anything more than the paint on the bumper in front of them.

Now, I just went and double checked in the garage, and my bike doesn't have a bumper at either the front or the back.

What kind of bike do you have?

[Berg]

Tax on stupidity! Everybody knows the fuckin thing's there yet they still speed past it and call it revenue collection
Oh, and I've attended about 5 or 6 crashes between the top and bottom of the gorge. All serious including one involving a fully loaded b-train