Fixed speed camera fine numbers down in S.A.

[Bud Bud]

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/s...2-2682,00.html

THE number of people caught speeding by fixed cameras fell by more than 8 per cent last financial year.

I love this, and not for the wrong reasons!

The speed limit default is reduced to 50 k/ph and they have more speed cameras than ever before, especially in 50 k/ph spots and yet revenue from fixed speed cameras still manages to fall. What will they do next to make up this short fall, lower the speed limit even more?

All this would not matter a steaming continental flying fig if in fact the road toll was not still constantly going up in S.A. atm either. In S.A. they originally set a road toll target of keeping under 90 in 09 (and good on em for trying) but they had to revise that campaign last month because we were already near 80 with 4 months to go. Over the weekend three more lives were lost and also another on Thursday, all in separate crashes. I think we are close to 84 now with no way of staying under the original 90 target this year.

This could be a shockingly blown out year if we can not get this under control.

Unfortunately from the last 4 deaths recorded, 3 were in the country again tipping an imbalance of road trauma per population in favour of country drivers.

All this as the city continues to grind to a halt while fixed speed camera revenue also continues to fall!