The report recommends NSW adopt “concealed” cameras.
According to a new report, speed camera warning signs are having a detrimental effect on the safety of Australian motorists, leading to recommendations that the signs be removed from NSW roads.
The report, completed by the NSW Auditor-General Margret Crawford, detailed how NSW drivers are only slowing down when the signs are present, but are still speeding in all other areas.
“The use of multiple warning signs provides drivers with general reassurance that they will receive an obvious warning to slow down before potentially being caught speeding,” the report read.
“This limits the opportunity to moderate driver behaviour through causing drivers to be worried they could be caught anywhere, anytime.”
Using the state of Victoria as an example, the report then recommends that NSW should move towards “covert and unconcealed” mobile speed camera and increase the number of fines in order to bring the level of road safety up.
Some are suggesting that eradicating the signs is not a safety issue, rather “money-grabbing exercise” as the removal would result in an immediate increase in fines.
However, before such controversy could arise NSW Roads Minister Melina Pavey’s office put a halt to the idea, slamming down any suggestions that the NSW Government would install new camera or remove signs.
“It’s not going to happen. It’s not our policy,” a spokesman for the office told The Daily Telegraph. “We’re not going to start pulling down signs like they do in Victoria.”
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Written by Kate Stevens
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