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Ah f*ck it, all governments are about revenue raising. At least NSW will be marking the mobile speed cameras. So if anyone gets done for speeding (if these changes are ever made) they deserve it. :thumbsup:

Edited by ras1983
Ah f*ck it, all governments are about revenue raising. At least NSW will be marking the mobile speed cameras. So if anyone gets done for speeding (if these changes are ever made) they deserve it. :thumbsup:

+1 :) Exactly right. Anyone getting done by any speed cameras has no excuse anyway, especially fixed ones.

Wonder if they'll extend this to HWP sitting in bushes?

+1 :thumbsup: Exactly right. Anyone getting done by any speed cameras has no excuse anyway, especially fixed ones.

Wonder if they'll extend this to HWP sitting in bushes?

Seen that already in QLD :) on the Pacific Motorway they'll hide between open spaces in bushes/trees separating the two directions of the motorway. They park nose in towards the road at night. If you're smart enough you spot them from far, but this gives them advantage to quickly close in even if the speeding driver hasn't noticed. HWP also hide out behind bushes on the long down stretch coming from Mt Cootha Lookout heading back towards the city catching spirited drivers. Won't be long NSW will start following suit I reckon.

Wonder if they'll extend this to HWP sitting in bushes?

* Bells Line Of Road 1.5km east of Mt Tomah Botanical Gardens Entrance.

* Pacific Hwy 6km south of Pt Macquarie.

2x of many...

Seen that already in QLD :blink: on the Pacific Motorway they'll hide between open spaces in bushes/trees separating the two directions of the motorway. They park nose in towards the road at night. If you're smart enough you spot them from far, but this gives them advantage to quickly close in even if the speeding driver hasn't noticed. HWP also hide out behind bushes on the long down stretch coming from Mt Cootha Lookout heading back towards the city catching spirited drivers. Won't be long NSW will start following suit I reckon.

They do this all the way up to Sydney anyway. While it does kinda get the people who speed, it'd still be better having an actual police presence out on the road. Ah well; ours is not to wonder why... apparently.

cant wait for this to take effect, I know they get my vote

hate the bastards but whats the alternative?

agree re points seem to be removed for the wrong offences, should def be increased for not indicating, clapped out cars and my big hate, hogging the overtaking lane doing ten under..

oh and Rawgr, sign me up as your first courier. I used to be a government bus driver (until i didnt have enough points) and we always complained about having the same points as everyone else (bus drivers are REALLY good at complaining though).

Still i will be pretty suprised if this gets through while the daily telegraph, police union and harold scruby (pedestrian council) are still dictating the headlines..

Harold Scruby is an effing peanut.

If it were up to him, he'd have it enshrined in law that anyone owning a motor vehicle must push their cars everywhere whilst being set on fire.

Then he'd be on telly, frothing at the mouth about how drivers pushing cars whilst on fire were a threat to pedestrian safety, and should be banned. Or set on fire. Or both.

Chairman of the pedestrian council my arse.

What government department elected him? No one.

When are the elections? Never.

Who does he answer to? No one.

He's the self appointed king of f##k all, and people listen to his mad ramblings, like he's some kind of expert.

Yet people with sensible ideas are routinely ignored and undermined because it doesn't fit with the current misguided thinking.

Sorry about that, don't know what came over me. I'm off to have a bex, and a lie down...

Edited by Daleo
Harold Scruby is an effing peanut.

If it were up to him, he'd have it enshrined in law that anyone owning a motor vehicle must push their cars everywhere whilst being set on fire.

Then he'd be on telly, frothing at the mouth about how drivers pushing cars whilst on fire were a threat to pedestrian safety, and should be banned. Or set on fire. Or both.

Chairman of the pedestrian council my arse.

What government department elected him? No one.

When are the elections? Never.

Who does he answer to? No one.

He's the self appointed king of f##k all, and people listen to his mad ramblings, like he's some kind of expert.

Yet people with sensible ideas are routinely ignored and undermined because it doesn't fit with the current misguided thinking.

Sorry about that, don't know what came over me. I'm off to have a bex, and a lie down...

there there... let's hug it out

:P

Harold Scruby is an effing peanut.

If it were up to him, he'd have it enshrined in law that anyone owning a motor vehicle must push their cars everywhere whilst being set on fire.

Then he'd be on telly, frothing at the mouth about how drivers pushing cars whilst on fire were a threat to pedestrian safety, and should be banned. Or set on fire. Or both.

Chairman of the pedestrian council my arse.

What government department elected him? No one.

When are the elections? Never.

Who does he answer to? No one.

He's the self appointed king of f##k all, and people listen to his mad ramblings, like he's some kind of expert.

Yet people with sensible ideas are routinely ignored and undermined because it doesn't fit with the current misguided thinking.

Sorry about that, don't know what came over me. I'm off to have a bex, and a lie down...

I hear he is an expert on parents running over their own children in their 4WDs.

Too far? :P

  • 2 weeks later...
Thanks man!

Desire to strangle Scruby ebbing away, much better. Lol!

dont worry man i understand totally, every time i read a quote from him in the daily toilet paper or worse, see him on ACA my blood boils. making him an arbiter of road safety would be like putting bruce ruxton in charge of immigration..

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