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Latest round of red light (speed?) cameras

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:03 pm
by yorky
Right so the word on the street is that a bunch of red light cameras around Perth are getting upgraded to combined red light + speed cameras. Can anyone confirm this?

I can confirm that Beach x Mirrabooka and Wannaroo x Beach have newer style cameras replaced last week, but are they going to be fixed speed cameras as well?

Re: Latest round of red light (speed?) cameras

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:20 pm
by LighteningCrashes
FYI

These are the new fixed red light / speed camera locations for Perth.

LOCATION


CANNING HWY/RISELEY STREET APPLECROSS
STIRLING HWY/ERIC STREET, COTTESLOE
CANNING HWY/DOUGLAS AVE. SOUTH PERTH
G.E.H./SHEPPERTON RD. VICTORIA PARK
ALBANY HWY/LEACH HWAY OFF RAMP, BENTLEY
WINTERFOLD RD/STOCK ROAD, HILTON
WANNEROO RD/BEACH ROAD, BALGA
LEACH HWY/BUNGAREE RD. WILSON
BEACH RD/MIRRABOOKA AVENUE BALGA
ROE HWY/KALAMUNDA ROAD, HIGH WYCOMBE
HEPBURN AVE/MARMION AVENUE, PADBURY
MORLEY DVE/ALEXANDER DVE. DIANELLA


These are the up-coming locations for the new red light speed cameras. Even if you speed through the orange light to beat the red – if you’re speeding through these set of lights – you will get done for speeding.

They will all be in action from June/July. .

There is one already active in front of the bell tower on Riverside Drive in the City.

Re: Latest round of red light (speed?) cameras

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:24 pm
by yorky
Thanks. Although obviously without yummy sause its hearsay :wink:

Re: Latest round of red light (speed?) cameras

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:27 pm
by LighteningCrashes
yorky wrote:Thanks. Although obviously without yummy sause its hearsay :wink:
Yes only hearsay so you just keep on speeding through those red lights until your heart is content. Can confirm Stock X Winterfold has new type camera housing.

Check halfway down the page here for some interesting tidbits

Or our friends in the biking section

Re: Latest round of red light (speed?) cameras

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:07 pm
by auntys_eyes
I received an email today from a friend, with the EXACT same text in it as that which LighteningCrashes has quoted above. Neither texts say where it has come from. Does anyone know where this information originated?

Re: Latest round of red light (speed?) cameras

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:59 pm
by vk6hgr
I reckon every driver should just receive a standard speeding citation with their drivers license renewal. With the odds of every driver being caught "speeding" approaching 100% it would probably be cheaper doing it this way :-)

On a more on-topic note... I'd like it if these new cameras detected drivers going through red arrows (but where the through road is green) Have had far more near-misses in my experience from drivers thinking, "oh, straight ahead has a green, I'll just go through this red arrow"... which is entertaining when you actually have a green arrow going across his line of travel. Ditto for clowns who think "green arrow means green light"

:smt076

What do people reckon? Will they eventually replace all of the old Gatso red light cameras with combo speed and red light ones?

Re: Latest round of red light (speed?) cameras

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:41 pm
by robbage
They can install a RL cam at Reid Hwy and Marmion any time soon. It will pay for itself in a month.

Re: Latest round of red light (speed?) cameras

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:55 am
by colin
saw work being done on roe hwy / kalamunda rd camera yesterday.

Re: Latest round of red light (speed?) cameras

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 5:24 pm
by nachoman

Re: Latest round of red light (speed?) cameras

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 5:48 pm
by yorky
About the existing camera yes, but it doesn't mention about the new cameras in different locations :(

Re: Latest round of red light (speed?) cameras

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 6:09 pm
by gkoutlis
I found this on watoday.com.au

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/dual- ... -wy1c.html

The very bottom does list some of those new locations to get the upgrade.

G

Re: Latest round of red light (speed?) cameras

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 6:18 pm
by spartacus
Seven News had the same list, and mentioned "that there is more on the way"

Re: Latest round of red light (speed?) cameras

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:57 pm
by phreak
colin wrote:saw work being done on roe hwy / kalamunda rd camera yesterday.
this one is gonna rake in money! not many people slow down to 80km/h as they drive thru these intersections.

Re: Latest round of red light (speed?) cameras

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:34 pm
by robbage
phreak wrote:not many people slow down to 80km/h as they drive thru these intersections.
It's almost like they know that ;-)

Re: Latest round of red light (speed?) cameras

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:58 pm
by westernwedgey
Actually these intersections statistically have a bad history of accidents, thats why they have put them in =D> =D>

The bit i like about the new cameras is that even if you're on a green light, if you speed through the intersection you get your photo taken. cheeky buggers