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Tasmania - Warning over speed camera cuts

 

By Edith Bevin


The union says there will be fewer cameras in rural areas where most serious crashes occur.

Tasmania's public sector union says the decision by the police department to sack its civilian speed camera operators will result in more road fatalities.

About 11 camera operators will be replaced by police officers due to budget cuts.

The Community and Public Sector Union says the extra workload on police will mean fewer cameras in rural areas, where most serious crashes occur.

Tasmania Police says speed cameras are only part of its road safety strategy and the move will save $800,000 a year.

Spokesman, Tom Lynch, says the economic reason for the decision does not even make sense.

"I understand the cost of operating the speed cameras right around the state in a full year is equivalent to what it costs for one fatal injury in the state and I'm sure the operation of speed cameras has saved multiple lives, avoided multiple crashes every single year," he said.

The Police Association says officers do not have the time and resources to man the cameras in the rural black-spots where they are most needed.

Acting president Robbie Dunn says it is also undesirable to leave the cameras running.

"Speed cameras are part of a strategy, the strategy has been extremely successful."

"We've got the lowest stats we've ever had. I wouldn't want to tinker with anything and now it is being tinkered with.

"I'd hate to say it but it could well lead to more accidents," he said.

Police will operate the cameras from next month.

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Tasmania (Australia) Speed camera crews axed

CIVILIAN speed camera operators are the latest victims of Tasmania Police's increasingly desperate financial plight.

The expensive pieces of speedster-nabbing equipment will now be switched to "automatic", says police management.

That has raised RACT concerns that covert camera placements will make drivers much more likely to be nabbed without knowing it.

"We would much prefer to see a high-visibility strategy as that's what acts as the greatest deterrent to dangerous road behaviour," RACT spokesman Vince Taskunas said.

The dwindling civilian operator crew, which was already slashed by four members at the start of this financial year, were summoned to a meeting at Bellerive Police Station on Monday and informed there would be no jobs from July 1.

The non-police operators, who can regularly be seen parked beside busy roadways and in areas where speeding has been deemed a serious problem, were told their positions "would not be valid after the end of the current financial year" as there was "no budget for speed camera operators".

Deputy Commissioner Scott Tilyard told a Budget estimates hearing in July that speed camera hours would be down this year compared with last year.

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Tasmania - Drivers on notice about new speed limits

Tasmanian motorists will soon have to even more attentive, with the rolling out of new variable speed limit signs.

Work will start today on installing the new technology for the first time in Tasmania.

Under the $3 million project, 40 electronic variable speed limit signs will be installed attached to CCTV cameras.

The speed limit may change during peak traffic conditions and poor weather.

The work will take in a nine-kilometre section of the highway in Hobart between Liverpool Street, the Tasman Bridge and the Cambridge Road interchange.

Vince Taskunas from the RACT says it is hoped to reduce the number of crashes on the state's roads.

"It is a popular passenger highway and we have seen traffic management issues on that part of the road network."

The system is expected to be operating by May next year.

 

PoliceSpeedCameras.info Comments -  This is commendable action by the Tasmanian authorities. If used correctly, the speed limit should be increased when there are next to no cars on the road. (But I can't see that happening - except in Europe )

Western Australia's Main Roads & Police Minister could take this on board and also enforce the "keep left" law on freeway, ( or introduce individual lane speed limit) That would do away with 90 % of driver frustration. WA has spent huge amounts of  money on pointless electronic freeway over-head signs that are of no benefit to anyone. Perhaps we could spend the money on variable speed limit signs like Tasmania instead?

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Tasmainia - Motorists hit by fines hike

 

ROAD users flouting traffic laws face increases of up to 30 per cent on a range of fines from the end of this month.

The latest offences to attract stiffer penalties include driving an unregistered car and running a red light, and for disobeying no-stopping and no-parking signs.

About a third of traffic fines will be included in the price rises following a 10-year review.

Infrastructure department deputy secretary David Peters said the penalties needed to go up to remain a deterrent to breaking the rules.

"The increases will ensure that the value of Traffic Infringement Notice fines is maintained in real terms," he said.

"The fines that will increase in line with Consumer Price Index increases account for only approximately one-third of all TINs issued by police in the last three years."

Offences such as speeding, not wearing a seatbelt and mobile phone use are not included after they were reviewed recently.

Mr Peters said the fines were still acceptable deterrents since the last review in 2001.

"Since then there have been no significant variations in crash causes and the original principles used to set these fines are still relevant and appropriate," he said.

Mr Peters said Tasmanian fines were still lower than in many other states and the national average.

"The bottom line, of course, is that the increased fines, or traffic fines of any kind for that matter, are avoidable if motorists always do the right thing," he said.

"In short, if you don't want to pay the fine, don't commit the traffic offence."

Mr Peters said the department was considering reviewing the fines every three years rather than waiting for the automatic indexed increase every decade.

Last week it was revealed the State Government was forced to rush legislation through Parliament to make a fine increase last year legitimate after then attorney-general Lara Giddings failed to correctly increase the standard penalty unit from $120 to $130.

Current Attorney-General Brian Wightman repeated the mistake this year, leaving the Government open to legal challenges potentially worth millions of dollars.

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