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Originally Posted by flappist

So when a driver decides to stop at a red light and the idiot behind him is either following too closely or driving without due care thereby running into the vehicle in front this is because the first driver chose to stop at a red light rather than to continue through it endangering drivers on the cross road because it has a camera and he might get a ticket as well as being killed?

Hmmm....

Red light cameras and speed cameras are a good solution when they are VERY clearly marked and used in places where there is a potentially dangerous situation such as intersections or school zones.

All school zones should have speed cameras and video surveilance with large flashing red lights saying "SCHOOL ZONE ACTIVE SPEED LIMIT 40 WATCH OUT FOR CHILDREN YOU ARE BEING RECORDED" with all the fines going to the school so they will be closely monitored.

Unfortunately such methodology would only save lives not make lots of money so speed cameras have been perverted into tax sources by being hidden and placed in safe areas where they will raise the most revinue.

The do-gooders constantly dribble on about if you don't speed you would get fined (and I wonder why they did not just tell the victims of the holocost if they did not worship at a Synagogue or whatever they would not be murdered) but no one is the speed kills camp can explain these two facts:

1) Victoria, with umpty bazillion speed cameras has about the same road toll as the rest of Australia.

2) Each of these speed cameras book hundreds of thousands sometimes millions of cars every year. This means that at each of the cameras there are hundreds of thousands of vehicles that are speeding.
If, in fact, "speed kills" and there is absolutely no doubt at all that these cars are speeding why has there NOT BEEN EVEN ONE SINGLE DEATH IN FRONT OF A SPEED CAMERA?

Great post, agree 100% the sooner people take responsibility for their own actions the better. Did a driver training course recently; Fatigue is the big one, don't mind red light cameras but speed cameras at the bottom is hills is really not the way to go...