Money making Scheme? Or Added Safety?
Do you guys think this is a money making scheme or a good way to reduce road toll?
(From Herald Sun) POINT to POINT CAMERAS!
" The annual battle to cut the Easter road toll began this morning with the introduction of a battery of new high-tech speed cameras.
Point-to-point cameras, on the Hume Freeway between Melbourne's outskirts and Broadford, went into action at midnight, in time for the increased traffic flow. Drivers on the Western Ring Road should also beware of new parabolic cameras, which simultaneously cover all lanes.
The point-to-point cameras enable police to measure the time it takes motorists to travel between two points to calculate their average speed. The new method aims to catch drivers who slow down to avoid single, fixed-speed cameras.
But motorists will not be booked several times over the same stretch of road.
Five cameras will monitor a stretch of the Hume Freeway between the Western Ring Road to about 80 kilometres outside Melbourne. Large flashing signs will mark all cameras. "
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