Speed Cameras in NSW

[Don Peppino]

Am I missing something but I was under the impression that fixed speed cameras in NSW could only get you from the rear of the vehicle not the front. Have they changed the law???????

[Holdendriver]

Am I missing something but I was under the impression that fixed speed cameras in NSW could only get you from the rear of the vehicle not the front. Have they changed the law???????

AFAIK it has always been front and back.
Had a customer years ago got booked by the one on Polding street
on the way out and on the way back.
Basically it depends on how the camera is set up.
Hope you didn't get pinged??
Cheers,

[ssvyredute]

changed the law around three years ago now! previous poster correct , depends on which camera as all are not set up to take both ways.

[Stevotski]

you will see the cuts in the road where the magnetic loop sensors lie.

A lot of the cameras were oringinally set up to shoot cars going past, and not towards them. Most of the cameras now have the magnetic loops right across the road so they get you both ways.

[GAL350]

Bugger! I never knew this and still thought it was rear only. Guess I'm very lucky that the few I frequent don't appear to have been converted to both ways. Thanks for the tip guys!

[Febs]

To further add confusion, the one at the bottom of the F6, southbound (outside Wollongong Uni) ONLY gets you from the front...not the back.

(So motorbike riders - you're safe. :))

Cheers,
- Febs.

[VX225]

To further add confusion, the one at the bottom of the F6, southbound (outside Wollongong Uni) ONLY gets you from the front...not the back.

(So motorbike riders - you're safe. :))

Cheers,
- Febs.

that is true. used to love cruising past all the cars slowing down for the camera back when i had my bike :D

[APCLB]

To further add confusion, the one at the bottom of the F6, southbound (outside Wollongong Uni) ONLY gets you from the front...not the back.

(So motorbike riders - you're safe. :))

Cheers,
- Febs.
This one had me worried,come around the sweeping bend & wtf?
I might have got pinged by this one last week,still waiting for the call from the boss lol.....

[VSSII]

Don't abuse the cameras by hooking through on the bike. That will only motivate the powers that be to reintroduce front mount plates. They've been on the drawing board for the last 5 years. Any rock solid stats of how many speeding bikes escape being nabbed will only be paraded before the papers as fact when they introduce them

[Boom]

dont forget that at the bottom of Ousley you have 2 speed cameras. one for each way at either end of the uni basically. and yeah they take happy snaps of the front. and yeah they work. heard a lot of folks saying thet dont work. they be wrong.

[brettarmst]

It pays to have a look at the pic if you get busted, had a mate go and look at the photo about 2 years ago and there was a car in each lane (2 lanes both ways) and no information on the pic as to which car was actually speeding so the ticket was thrown out in court (He got the ticket because he had the mag wheels). I believe this has been fixed up these days and the pic includes the text of which lane has the offending car.

In the ACT all plates start with a Y (eg Y12.123) and when NSW started issuing plates with a Y at the start of last year the driver in the ACT got the ticket for a NSW car offence.

Then best of all, my brother got a ticket in his crapped out Gemmi that he just got re-registered. He went and had a look at the pic and there was a brand new Toyota Landcruiser in the pic. The poor bugger still had to go to court for a judge to decide that it was a case of a miss-read number plate by some idiot that didn't check the vehicle make or color.

[cev]

dont forget that at the bottom of Ousley you have 2 speed cameras. one for each way at either end of the uni basically. and yeah they take happy snaps of the front. and yeah they work. heard a lot of folks saying thet dont work. they be wrong.

Yes they definitely work. They are the only front ones ive seen.

At first I was confused when passing the first front one then passing soon down the road the other one and thinking hey, most cameras take from the back, can it still get me on the other side of the road from back?

Got nothing against bikes but its quite wrong that they KNOW they can fly thru there no problems.

[ssvyredute]

is there a statuatory time limit that can pass before you can send for the photo?? say for e.g june 2004.

[kart_racer]

dont forget that at the bottom of Ousley you have 2 speed cameras. one for each way at either end of the uni basically. and yeah they take happy snaps of the front. and yeah they work. heard a lot of folks saying thet dont work. they be wrong.

They certainly do work. Dad got done a couple of years ago by the northbound one.

These ones only work in one direction though...I've tested that a few times.

[seedyrom]

the Concord rd camera near the KFC in Concord, NSW has just been made both ways. (about 3 weeks ago)

[D3CID3R]

The fixed camera on Parramatta Rd at auburn does not nick you going westbound. I drive past it every morning regularly doing more than 80k's. It makes me laugh inside to see the reactions of other plebs on the road when I pass them.

I was, however, done the other day doing 60k's in a 40 zone during the school times. Hardly speeding I thought. The cop was a real bitch too, after the process she handed me the fine and asked "so do you have any questions?" I bit my tongue as I nearly replied "yes, were you one of the sheila's from Goulburn who had to f?*k the teacher to pass the course?"

I still wonder what might have happened if I had the balls.

[cwhast]

I still wonder what might have happened if I had the balls.
The bitch cop might have confiscated them too :p