Speed Camera Inquiry

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Originally Posted by flappist

Well I have been on two party policy committees on traffic act policies, have written several papers on road safety including one of those in the current speed camera enquiry.

Now what have you done?

Even though I live in a different state (of disrepair), i take great comfort in the fact that a sane person such as Tony is involved in influencing the power brokers. These days it seems to be only career politicians who have a chauffeur driven car and in some cases no drivers licence who set policy. Hopefully if we get enough from our side involved, we can make a difference.

I got pulled over on a back road in Texas a couple of weeks ago doing 98mph in a 75mph zone. The trooper gave me a friendly warning about the dangers on the back roads of going so fast such as farm equipment pulling out etc. Guess what I did then? Slowed down in anticipation of farm equipment etc. Sure enough, 30 minutes later I see a combine slowly travelling down the road and had to brake hard as there was oncoming traffic so I couldn't overtake.
Had this been a camera it may not have ended so well at all.
The point I'm making is, common sense and discretionary powers of the forces do far more to encourage safe driving as opposed to zero tolerance BS (roads only, criminals should be free) served up by politicians who refuse to look at evidence to the dangers of cameras.
I know I'm not alone in thinking our major highways should be 120-140klm/h zones. At these speeds, the driver will find it hard to be bored due to the amount of information he has to process at that speed.