1 less speed camera

One of the Speed cameras on the infamous Spit Hill (biggest revenue raising
street in Australia) was removed today. Something to do with confusion as to
whether it's considered one or two offences if caught by both cameras (about
200m apart).
The powers that be decided to remove it and the world is now an ever so
slightly better place. Hooray.

 

About fecking time too, this means I don't have to slow to 40 kph to
go past it in some sort of hope I won't be wallet raped.

That cam was the one that cost me two fines for 60 kph marked as 71 kph.
After trying the scam again in recent months, guess they have learnt the
public won't wear that shite.

For those that don't know, folk in Manly/Fairlight/Balgowlah etc are
wallet raped either through tolls, land tax, or cams all the time.
Not a cheap place to live, and we still have to put up with the
1940s piece of shite known as the "Spit Bridge"

 

I've kept below 60 kph going up and down Spit hill for several years now and
I've been okay.....

Don't forget, they've only removed ONE of the three (?) revenue raisers.....

DS

 

Me thinks you missed the point. The cameras were set up over specific
times to trigger a 71kph reading for a motor vehicle @ 60 kph.

I might be stupid, but not stupid enough to speed past a speed
camera, so you can take that as a data point that corruption
does exist.

 

I rode down there the last time I was in Sydney. How stupid do you have
to be

Read the post. 'Caught' him at 71kph when he was doing 60.

-mark

 

You realise they'll just install it somewhere else?
Pete

 

How many people admit to speeding??

 

Nev, I'd seriously consider you do some background research on the
Spit speed cameras, and into why one of them is being removed (sort
of as rare as a Maccas closing down).

And, I don't have a wife, and not sure at all why it would be
relevant if I did.

 

That camera is going on the F3 they mentioned. It is currently a 90km/h
section.

 

Not particularly stupid. Those particular cameras have been the
subject of much wrath over the years. If numerous stories in the
media are to be believed, they've been carefully calibrated to
to "mark with chalk, cut with an axe" standard. A number of
gummint buses, for example, were 'caught' travelling up Spit
Hill at circa seventy km/h. Drivers were absolutely adamant that
it wasn't technically possible to make their buses go that
quick.

While hardly scientific research, a tabloid TV program recently
got out there in an unloaded regulation gummint bus with a
regulation gummint driver, pointed said bus and driver up the hill
and 'gassed it'. The bloody thing barely cracked 40Km/h.

Put a lot of punters on one of those buses and there's no way in
hell they'd come close to the speed limit.


The noise in the tabloid TV brought a lot of other punters out
of the woodwork. All kinds of folks driving vehicles that had
not a hope in hell of sprinting up that hill at 60Km/h were
producing "lots fo tickets".


Generally speaking, going back for more would require stupidity,
but in this instance, something about the setup of those three
cameras apparently obviated the requirement for stupidity as a
contributing factor.


GB

 

Do you have a source for that? I'd certainly like to see it.

Ta,

GB

 

They've still got 2 in a row on Alexander parade in melbourne.

Michael

 

conspiracy.com.au

Theo

 

Me. The Vic Gov't increased their revenue by $128 last October when they
clocked me at 104 in a 100 zone. I was guilty, and still feel bad about it.
Bastards!

Theo

 

Punters don't weigh much. 16 to the tonne, 64 people would only be four
tonnes and a full bus.

Theo

 

And an extra 4 tonne isn't going to slow down the bus up a hill?

Michael

 

Sure it is, because they put in the smallest, cheapest engine they can find.

Theo

 

Read my post again, that was my point.

Michael

 

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Z is of the opinion:

I wonder if they're going to recalibrate it or just leave it at it's current
settings? <grin>

- Matt

 

Yeah its going to Mt White north bound on the F3, the speed limit is to be
raised to a 100km/hr as well

scott