Revenue Raising at its best

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Originally Posted by kpcart

Revenue raising, NO. Voluntary tax, YES. dont speed and you wont pay any fines, simple logic.
Perth has just adapted speed cameras at traffic lights, where it catches you going through red lights and also speeding through red lights. A bogan called in to a 6PR radio station question and answer radio show and asked "is there any signage so we know the camera is there? as it is obviously revenue raising", and the radio host shut him up with this answer, "Yes there is, theres a pole with 3 lights on it, Red, Orange and Green"
Volunatry tax, dont speed, and dont pay it. I would rather the government make money this way, through catching idiots speeding and not obeying road rules then taxing us some other way.
We all signed an agreement when we got our licence that we will obey road rules. I have not sped since 2004 after i was sick of getting speeding fines, and guess what, i havent had a speeding fine since! if you cant control the throttle of your car and keep it driving at a constant speed within the speed limits then get off the road, until then im happy for the government to take money from IDIOTS.

not quite right actually, they are red light and speed cameras, the light doesn't have to be red for you to be done for speeding, it can still get you on a green light (i have been done a couple of times by them).

as for the tolerances, i don't know about other states, but in wa they have a 3km/h tolerance, whatever your "stated" speed is on the fine, they take 3km/h off it for the fine. so if you're doing 3 over you won't get done.

oh, and wa police have a full list of the fixed speed cameras on their website, as well as a couple of weeks worth of locations where mobile cameras will be (road and suburb) although, obviously it doesn't have times on there...
http://police.wa.gov.au/Traffic/Came...5/Default.aspx