Comments on: $50m Victoria Speed Camera Blitz

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:53:57 +0000

I copped a speeding fine in Victoria for 62kmh in a 60 zone. I contacted the authorities and notified them I was in a legally imported and registered USA vehicle and the 2 kmh they was talking about equated to about 1mm on my speedo and from my view I was doing the speed limit.

So what was their attitude. So apparently they do not take into account all the logical things like speedo sizes, different tyre sizes, aged speedos etc.

Nothing but a cash grab.

By: jp

jp — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:38:35 +0000

Real cars was not having a shot at your mention of a round about – however since u raised it. The point i was making was that should you spend the money on additional road cops as oppose to cameras then you would have a certain extent of leniancy from police in assessing a situation and whether to fine or not (depending on the cop/mood)ie if there wasn’t anyone on the round about when you committed your minor infringement they may warn you in the hope you do follow the rule next time during school hours/peak traffic when these rules r important! Go to any round about, odd shaped or not and you will see how inefficient and dangerous these things become if drivers dont follow simple principles/rules.

In reply to the keep left thing yes it is down here – the law cant practically apply under 80 anyway?? it is on the 110k highway with a grandma doing 80 in the left lane that this annoys you and wish people where a) aware of it and B) followed it or was enforced

By: Jester

Jester — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:03:19 +0000

Peter and G3ETURBO – I’m with you 100%. Aussies just bend over and take it from the pollies and cops. If this is Europe you’d see blood on the streets from angry people that had enough of this BS.
95% of Oz population are bloody sheep, no wonder they can walk all over us 5%.

By: G6ETURBO

G6ETURBO — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:16:36 +0000

It’s not the police or the gov. fault. Australian take
anything the gov throw at us, winge about it for few weeks then life goes on. lets stop winging for once and do what the germans or italians would have done in this situation..

By: Howie-R31

Howie-R31 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:08:45 +0000

I meant reduce the death tolls btw :p

By: Stevothedevo

Stevothedevo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:15:33 +0000

Highway robbery. No wonder so many people drive around on cloned plates. All you have to do is find a car the same colour and model as yours and make a copy of the number plate. Saves on rego and fines.

By: Shak

Shak — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:40:55 +0000

id like to see them deliver on this safer roads promise. With that $50million go and upgrade the major roads and not just on a big bonus for Mr. Brumby’s department. I vote labour but strongly reconsidering it. I hope Sydney dont pull a stupid stunt like this.

By: The Realist

The Realist — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:23:47 +0000

realcars Says:
July 13th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
“Got fined the other day over a very minor technicality on a round about that didn’t pose any threat to other road users or myself. Unique roundabout and a highway patrol car waiting to catch people as a revenue raiser.”

And I bet at the same time some cretin was robbing a service station or engaging in a mass brawl and the police were no where to be found…

It’s good to know all the people on this blog so far are against this type of blatant revenue raising.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:12:00 +0000

The more fixed speed cameras there are on the road, the less time people will spend watching the road.

People get paranoid about the cameras and just watch their speedo. The amout of drivers I see that begin to veer into another lane in the vicinity of a fixed speed camera is rediculous.

I agree 100% with the claims that they are revenue raisers because I truly believe they are more dangerous than they are good.

By: David

David — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:02:59 +0000

Peter, you are EXACTLY RIGHT!! Until you drive in England (and Europe for that case), you don’t fully realise how bad a great majority of Victorian drivers are. Take a cab in France and the driver will hit 160km on the freeway (well ours did), and you will feel a whole lot safer than one of ours who is doing 50km/hr down Flinders Street. Their drivers focus on driving alone.. None of this wathcing the speedo to make sure we don’t go 2km/hr over the limit.. No talking on a mobile.. etc.. Just driving. They are passionate about their cars, and it shows. If the governemnt and police were really into reducing the road toll they would make getting a licence harder, with frequent re-testing and annual roadworthy checks on cars. Google getting a car licence in Sweden and you will see how much effort is put into driver training. Until that time, we will have a million muppets driving on the roads, blissfully unaware of what to do if they skid or need to apply ABS.. I bet 90% of the road users will take their foot of the brake when their ABS kicks in and boots them in the foot the first time they use it.. Get real Vic.Police.