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On June 1st I emailed the NSW Roads Minister Gay
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----- Original Message -----
From: stephens1510
To: office@gay.minister.nsw.gov.au
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 8:00 PM
Subject: speed camers work

Dear minister Gay,
I saw you on TV tonight speaking on the subject of speed cameras. You said any cameras found to be purely revenue raising will be ripped out.
Any speed camera will slow most drivers down, so as they do slow cars, they are doing their job.
Every media story on speed cameras focuses on the amount of "revenue" they make, not on the fact that they do slow most drivers.
You have a problem, if there is an bad accident at the site of a "ripped out" speed camera the story will change in the media, and of course in the House, asking why this "effective" road safety device was removed, with talk of knee jerk reaction etc.
The much mentioned variable speed cameras at Cleveland st Moore Park raised over $17 million in four years, can you tell me how much of this figure was raised outside of school zone time?
Nobody is against slowing down for kids during school zone time, but to be done for cruising through that deserted area a few kl/mh over at 2.0 am, would be the cause of most of the angst at that site. I think that switching off the variable speed function at the Moore Park site would go a long way in the public relation department concerning speed cameras without greatly compromising road safety.

Yours faithfully
Hans Stephens
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Today this came back from the Ministers Office

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From the reply above "any reduction or increase of speed camera programs will be based on the audit, and determined on road safety grounds"

That means the audit will find that speed cameras ARE effective in slowing down cars and a couple of obsolete ones will be "ripped out" for show, and then roll 'em out in the "interest of road safety"

YEEEEESS

In my Inbox an email headed: Lib news keeping you informed

Visit www.nsw.liberal.org.au/achievements to see how we are delivering real change for NSW.

I clicked onto a link on the site headed "Speed zones, with the byline "we have begun an audit of speed zones"

http://www.nsw.liberal.org.au/achievements/renovate-infrastructure/speed-zones

Road safety is my favourite subject and one of Barry's pre-election planks was "to rip" out any ineffective speed cameras so as I'm interested I click on the link, and this is the helpful extra info;

We have begun an audit of speed zones

I don't know about LIB news, maybe it should be called GLIB NEWS