On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:22:33 +0000, Athol Blathered on:
> Noticed the other night that the RTA fixed speed camera on Newcastle Rd
> Lambton is being converted from only measuring the speed of cars going
> one way to do both directions across a total of 5 lanes.
>
> Given that the signage has been there in both directions for years and
> everybody in Newcastle knows that it only works one way, I'd guess that
> there's going to be a lot of infringements coming up real soon.
>
> It leads me to wonder how many of the older camera installations are
> going to be re-worked to covert from one-way to two-way without any need
> to change the signage, since it's already there...
Duh...
Seems to me that there's been a purchase of the next 'marque' of cameras.
The new ones are capable of discriminating between to and fro.
The old ones will be placed on freeways where only one direction of
travel is indicated.
Of course a decent opposition in the parliament might fire off a series
of questions, WITH notice, after the fashion of the following:
So, when were they bought?
From whom?
How much money was expended?
Were they subsidised in any way by 'any' non GovCo group?
Are the numbers going to be made available in the audit reports of GovCo?
For any particular camera, for a start, and then for all cameras.
and.
How much revenue has been generated by the cameras being replaced in the
12 month. What is toe projected earnings capacity of those particular
cameras over the next 12 months?
Of course, to really tell whether these devices are earning their keep,
there are quite a few figures required.
How many notices in the past 12 months? How much money is involved.
How many of those notices had guilty pleas via payment? How much was paid?
How many of those notices had not been paid? What is outstanding?
How many of those notices currently before the courts? What's that worth?
How many of those notices have been through the courts, and paid as a
result? How much was paid in that exercise? - Totals to include reference
to actual penalties and court costs.
From all notices generated by automatic means, received revenue...
And so on.
For instance - precisely how many licences were suspended in <<pick a
State>> based solely on speeding penalties.
Grouped by ones that included detection by Mr Plod, and ones sourced
entirely by automatic detection.
It should be noted that GovCo's are using the various StaySafe Committees
and their ilk to get oppositions Into_The_Game so questions such as those
above are NOT asked in the parliament.
A FOI request for all that would no doubt take a few years to get a
result on. I'd also hazard a guess that there's be a claim of commercial
in confidence hard up the arse of the FOI request, thus totally meriting
the panacea advanced for the problem in another recent thread:-)
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Toby