paradoxsm: Speed cameras are invisible revenue gatherers

Adamal: Definatly. They have them in the central city, but they need them everywhere. The amount of people I see running reds these days is ridiculous.

sbiddle:

Adamal: Definatly. They have them in the central city, but they need them everywhere. The amount of people I see running reds these days is ridiculous.

If there were Red Light cameras in Wellington NZ Bus would go bust paying the fines.

sbiddle:

Adamal: Definatly. They have them in the central city, but they need them everywhere. The amount of people I see running reds these days is ridiculous.

If there were Red Light cameras in Wellington NZ Bus would go bust paying the fines.

I believe there are some or some are going in to Wellington  and if like the Auckland ones they are painted camouflage gray so that you can't see them.  I thought the object was to get people top stop at red lites not to make revenue.  Even in Vic, Ozz the police revenue center of the South Pacific their red lite cameras have big signs on them  so people are aware and do stop unlike NZ where it's revenue by stealth..

paradoxsm: I'd liked to have seen more money spend on more Police in visible cars actually targeting the people whom endanger people on the roads with their erratic and high speed driving. The visibility of the car's presence slows people down and makes them behave and take care there and then.


Speed cameras are invisible revenue gatherers, You speed all the way through and only realize that you sped a week later. BAD concept, no visible car to make you slow down, no officer to give you sensible advice, just a fine in the post.

In the UK they have massive signs on them so you are an unobservant fool to speed past one and deserve to get a ticket for not looking at the road and possible dangers.

I will have to find a van and head past it a few times and see the radar path and distance, we may be in luck!

sbiddle: Speed cameras like we have in NZ do nothing. They are nothing but a revenue gathering tool.

What we need are speed traps like they use in other countries such as the UK. Your vehicle rego is logged and over say a 10km distance it's logged again. The computer knows the time it takes to travel this distance and therefore if your average speed exceeds the speed limit you are ticketed.
 
Speed cameras are very easily detected by radar detectors (unlike those used in cars were skilled highway units will pick up most people no matter what detectors they have or how smart they think they are). Speed traps mean if you do speed you are guaranteed of getting a ticket. You can't escape this.

kingjj:

Like em or lump em, speed cameras do actually catch people out who are exceeding the speed limit, at the end of the day they won't catch everyone, but hey if they punish one person who was driving faster than is safe for that stretch of road then they've have potentially saved a life (cliche alert).

You've obviously been brain washed by the Police advertizing.  All speed cameras I see here in Auckland are on nice safe stretches of road like a  down hill  section on the southern motorway at 7.00 Sunday morning..

At least the good thing about our mobile cameras is that it is the Police don't like joining you in court if you challenge the accuracy of the mobile system here in NZ.

The cosine of 22.5 is a very significant number. So is the (in)ability of a TCO's to correctly position their vehicle in relation to the roadway.

old3eyes:

kingjj:

Like em or lump em, speed cameras do actually catch people out who are exceeding the speed limit, at the end of the day they won't catch everyone, but hey if they punish one person who was driving faster than is safe for that stretch of road then they've have potentially saved a life (cliche alert).

You've obviously been brain washed by the Police advertizing.  All speed cameras I see here in Auckland are on nice safe stretches of road like a  down hill  section on the southern motorway at 7.00 Sunday morning..

Just a couple of days snapping morons screaming right through red lights.