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Western Australia - Too Many Chiefs - Not Enough Indians!

Read Sunday Times Article - No to secret speed camera locations.

The last two weeks has seen confusion in the WA community as senior police run hot and then cold on the idea of secret speed camera locations. Everyone seems to have an idea on how to fix the road toll. The Office of Road Safety who seem to be "off with the fairies" want 30km/h speed limits not just on local roads, to quote the head of the governments Office of Road Safety, but on "any road where there was a chance a car could hit a pedestrian". What next? Are we going back to walking in front of cars with red flags and lanterns?

The governments own statistics show that speed cameras are doing nothing to stop the road toll. Speed cameras caught 2766 drivers in WA on 10th July 2005. On the same day on year later, only half as many drivers 1283 were caught speeding, but the road toll in still soaring! Of all speeding offences caught on speed cameras 42% of drivers are in the lowest bracket of offence and the tolerance for getting a ticket in this state is only 1%.

The cause and effect are so very simple. It's all about money!

First the very well funded RTA was scrapped in Western Australia. Then the Police Traffic Branch was scrapped and amalgamated with general police duties. (That is when all the police motorcycles left the streets)

Now you have hoons going stupid on our roads all night long. Darn, why aren't these speed cameras doing anything? Because only dedicated traffic patrol officers on the road in cars and on motorcycles night and day can crack down on hoons and leave that 42% of speed camera ticketed descent drivers alone.

"Get rid of the Indians and all you have left are hoons on the streets and a bunch of confused chiefs and a rising road toll."

You get what you pay for Mr. Alan Carpenter - Premier WA

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What on earth is wrong with Victorians allowing a State Government to do what they are doing to the general population? A small Australian state with 5 million residents, where 2.86 million warrants and Court orders exist for unpaid speed camera fines and tollway fines. Are Victorians so distracted with football that there civil liberties no longer matter? WAKE-UP!!!

The down side of nabbing the majority of drivers with a speeding fine is the inevitable rise in disqualified drivers and a steady rise in the road toll.

Concern has been raised by both supporters and opponents of speed cameras that the exponential growth in speeding offences detected will lead to a large increase in the number of people disqualified from driving, which causes severe economic consequences for those involved and may also encourage unlicensed (and therefore uninsured) driving.

Come to Victoria - The Speed Camera Mugging State of Australia. "If you come to our state with a drivers licence, we'll make sure you leave without one."

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Do Speed Cameras save lives? Statistics from around the world and Australia suggest not! Why? Because speed cameras target the vast majority of law abiding citizens who travel a few kms over the speed limit, not the true causes of road fatalities! Speed Cameras are "fools gold" for governments looking for a quick fix solution to road deaths, but prove a bonanza for cash strapped governments looking to reduce police manpower and raise revenue. Add to this mix speed detection technology that is inaccurate, low speed tolerance limits and a court system that is blind to these problems and you have a recipe for disaster.

Road Patrol Cops Replaced by Cameras

Why do you think speed cameras are so appealing to governments? Simple, speed cameras are cheaper to run than real police. Speed cameras don't ask for pay rises or let off drivers with a warning - Real cops do! It's based on a false economy to save money and raise revenue. What the community gets is a rise in road deaths and a bunch of young road hoons running the streets like a scene out of the movie "Mad Max" Don't believe it? I live in Western Australia where the Police Traffic Branch was amalgamated with the local suburban police stations. So who looks after the streets now? Basically, its a free for all.

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The Editor of The Observer wrote (17th July 2005):

"Last week, the government announced a three-month moratorium on further speed cameras. This was partly in response to the work of engineer Paul Smith [Safe Speed's founder], who has spent 5,000 hours finding out why, though the number of cameras has risen exponentially, there has been no corresponding reduction in traffic fatalities. He concludes that, far from acting as a deterrent, speed cameras take responsibility for safe speed away from drivers, and their concentration from the road. Cameras are as likely to cause an accident as to prevent one." (link)