Gold Coast Speed Camera Racks up $12k an HOUR !!!

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Originally Posted by auslandau

Agree ..... It would take umpteen cops on that site to rake in that amount of revenue ..... OR one police car to sit there every second or third day which would stop people from speeding, even if no fines were distributed. Woops .... no money in that. Safer for all but no revenue :(



Confused now .... which line are you taking if the first quote was obvious sarcasm?

Ok, see if this works for you.

Scenario 1 - A person is driving at 15km/h over the speed limit, he sees a cop and slows down (cool, thats safer). Then when he is out of view he puts his foot down again and back to old ways.

Scenario 2 - Same person is driving down the road at 15km/h, like he always does, suddenly flash and he knows a ticket will be in the mail. Now he gets the fine of $200 and 3 demerit points. This makes him angry and he whines about it but it makes him think the next time he is in the car. If he does it again, there is another 3 points, another step in the education of Sir Racealot. If he is a really slow learner and does it 2 more times all within a two year period, he is off the road.

Yes the cop slows people down, yes they are needed, but lets face it there are a lot of people that when they see a cop, may slow down but will speed up again once past. The sad reality is to really teach people to slow down you have to hit them in the hip pocket or take their licence from them, simple.

The reason I still believe a cop is better is due to the fact they can observe and deal with other offences such as failing to give way, failing to indicate, driver inattention and tailgating (all other significant causes of crashes). The problem is they are just too man power intensive for a population that do not want to pay the wages of more cops. What would your veiw be if the government dropped the use of speed cameras and employed more cops to do it the old way? All this would give you more actual cops on the road which you suggest will do a much better job of improving road safety, without those sneaky revenue raising speed cameras. The catch is each motorist now has to pay a $100 levy on their registration to pay for this increase in traffic cops, how much do you like that idea? We then all have to pay because some can not read a speedo, rather than just those that can't read a speedo paying. I'll take the cameras thanks and keep my money in my pocket, I haven't recieved a fine from a camera in 10years, why should I start paying now?