Just had the below message relayed to me. There has been talk about it for some time now so maybe we'd better be careful now just in case it has started.

DH

"New Legislation M5 & M7 Re Speeding Fines

M5 and the M7 are now equipped with Point to Point Speed Devices. On entering the M7 the etag beeps and a camera takes a photo of your car recording the exact time. On exiting the etag system beeps again another camera at that point takes a photo of the car and the time. Then the computer calculates the time it has taken you to
travel between the two points and calculates your speed. If you completed the clocked journey too fast you are issued with a speeding ticket.

At the present the speed limit is 100K.P.H. with a tolerance of 102 maximum. Over that and you are issued with a fine automatically. What a shock some drivers are going to have when they use this roadway for a week and get a weeks' tickets BOTH WAYS. Of course your license will also be recalled for 3 months. Now with the new legislation, fighting a Speed Camera fine is almost impossible. You must prove the device is faulty and if you are not a technician working on them, you have no chance of beating the fine.

The Pacific Highway has a set and these are recognized by large steel frames over the lanes with a speed camera and some distance up the road is another large metal frame with a speed camera.

These new point to point systems are being put onto any expressway and highway where vehicles are not able to exit between those points.

NOTE: School zone cameras are not speed tolerant. Anything over, even 41, is a fine.

Tammy Umasaran
Corporate & Admin Support
Ministry of Transport"

I think in NSW they have to display warning signs of speed camera's ahead. There is some sort of legislation I think. So if there are warnings then maybe it's possible, but I can't remember seeing any signs last time I went there (last week).

Looks like a bogus email to me. The issue though is one that we should all be taking up with pollies and wannabe pollies. I do every time I talk to one. I went through 4 school scrubie zones this morning - 2 of which are heavily policed. As usual, I spent more time looking at the speedo than for kids. This idiotic setup has to go. Its focused on enforcement not results.

Vote the bastards out.

Most likely another 1st April joke flying around again!! One thing for sure was the use of the camera car between Old windsor Rd exit and Richmond Rd exit on the M7 at regular intervals last year when I was travelling that section. No warning signs there. If the sections of road have the "speed cameras used in NSW", that would be enough to cover the parked Falcon wagon or whatever car with the camera attached. The cops were back at Quaker's Hill station drinking coffee and watching the soapies!

The same thing about the M7 has popped up over the last couple of years and even though the technology is there, I would think it would be advertised in the media just that one little bit.

The Poms have average speed cameras set up on most road works sections, especially on the M25. Sure keeps most to the signposted speed limit there!!

With the numbers of speed cameras, Australia is nothing but a rank amature compared to the UK, both fixed and mobile.


DH

this has been going around for a while, not an april fools thing.
personally, i hope i'm not the one to clarify it for everyone....

mind you on our way to the city a few weeks ago i can garuntee my mates defiantely broke the time between checkpoints and i haven't heard anything...

Hi

Its been talked about a few times on talk back radio (no C&W station in Sydney) its bogus. They do do point to point on trucks, so we don't want to give them any ideas to extend it to cars.

Steve

Yeah no truth in it yet. Wait until it's in the Daily Telegraph, then it's gospel.

LOL what a great laugh,this has been on 2gb with Hadley many a time and proven a big furphy

The email is a great big furphy.

The Pacific highway ones (with the big steel framework over the road) are for trucks only.


Regards,

Matt.

Of course the secret is don't speed.
Different government departments extort enough money out of me, stuff giving it to them voluntarily.

Yep this yet another Urban myth.. gosh there are plenty of them getting around - but best defence such things is.. stick to the speed limit!

my trip computer shows my average speed over the last 6 months is 36.7km/h. I use the M4/M7/Great Western everyday. The state of Sydney's shit roads is criminal IMO.