Speed safety & mobile camera enforcement in NSW..

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Driving in to Tuggerah on old Pac HWY, & found a mbl speed camera on the side of the road. It was still there on way home.

I don't remember seeing any mention of this section being listed as a blackspot, nor to the best of my knowledge having a history of speed related crashes.

Did a check on the NSW RTA website to find that they have added another "500" High risk blackspot areas to their "hit lists". Be VERY aware that whilst the RTA are removing one or two of the 128 fixed emplacements, they have ramped up the usage of moblie camera enforcement on a grand scale.

The review of fixed camera locations has recommended the removal of a number of 'fixed emplacements' due to the fact that there has been a 'provable' increase in the volume of injuries(and in some cases deaths) where the cameras were installed. The report identified 38 locations where fixed speed cameras were not delivering the expected road safety benefit to the community. It also indicated that "may" have been other methods of improving road safety in the area OTHER than thru punitive speed enforcement.

There has been precious little publicity / public consultation provided about the increase mobile enforcement.

The 'new & improved' mobile devices can pop up just about anywhere. They are administered and operated by "a third party who is a private contractor".
As these mobile devices are transient, there will no longer be any tracable figures that can be used to review the true road safety effectiveness of these "deterents". Outside contractor, transient / random nature of mobile enforcement - rings alarm bells to me about how accurate any data / statistics are likely to be.