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Roadside cameras to make $94 million less than Queensland government expectations (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 5 months ago by trk@aussie.zone to c/brisbane@aussie.zone

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In short: Queensland has a range of roadside cameras to detect offences such as speeding, mobile phone use, and not wearing a seatbelt.
The government has significantly revised how much it expects to make from cameras with revenue in 2023-24 tipped to fall $94 million short.
What's next? The cameras are now projected to make $409 million in 2023-24, followed by $465.8 million in 2024-25.

Brace yourself for a reduction in tolerance. Government relies on that speed camera income so if there's a shortfall they'll stop dropping the percent tolerances until we hit the 1kph over fines they hand out in Victoria.

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[–] MalReynolds 3 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Given speedometers are only required to be +- 10%, that's some serious bullshit...

[–] trk@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Pretty sure it's +10%/-0%... i.e. it can read up to 10% faster than reality, but can never read slower than reality. That's why most cars speedos tend to be out by around +5% to +8% from factory - making sure they are right in the middle, with a slight bias towards reading faster.

[–] MalReynolds 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Well, that's better than I thought, thanks for the correct, I hope, but still bad if one wants traffic to move (I'm more interested in bikes moving personally, but whatever…)

[–] GiovanniBruzzolini@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

It used to ± 10% but the ADRs were changed somewhere in the '00s (2006, I think).

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