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| posted on April 1st, 2008 at 11:59 AM |
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Fact or fiction for M5/M7
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"
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| posted on April 1st, 2008 at 12:11 PM |
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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).
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| posted on April 1st, 2008 at 12:15 PM |
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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.
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| posted on April 1st, 2008 at 12:17 PM |
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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
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| posted on April 1st, 2008 at 01:59 PM |
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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...
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| posted on April 1st, 2008 at 03:16 PM |
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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
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| posted on April 1st, 2008 at 03:21 PM |
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Yeah no truth in it yet. Wait until it's in the Daily Telegraph, then it's gospel.
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| posted on April 1st, 2008 at 06:31 PM |
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LOL what a great laugh,this has been on 2gb with Hadley many a time and proven a big furphy  
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| posted on April 2nd, 2008 at 07:33 PM |
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The email is a great big furphy.
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| posted on April 3rd, 2008 at 08:41 AM |
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The Pacific highway ones (with the big steel framework over the road) are for trucks only.
Regards,
Matt.
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| posted on April 3rd, 2008 at 09:07 AM |
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Of course the secret is don't speed.
Different government departments extort enough money out of me, stuff giving it to them voluntarily.
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
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| posted on April 5th, 2008 at 09:49 AM |
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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!
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| posted on April 5th, 2008 at 07:58 PM |
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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.
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| posted on April 5th, 2008 at 08:26 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by crewcabconnection
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.
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You must be speeding mate with a high average like that! A few weeks back it took from 7 am to 9.30 to get from N Richmond to Chatswood via the
M7/M2 from Richmond Rd. A parking lot from Norwest Boulevard to the Epping tunnel AND we have to pay for the bloody privilige.
DH
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