Vic speed cam commissioner wants your complaints

Gordon Lewis is a former County Court judge who is Victoria's new speed camera commissioner,  who is a welcome addition to the checks and balances that already exist on Victoria's traffic cameras.

Mr Lewis wants motorists to contact him with their complaints about the controversial cameras. He expects to be swamped, but sees finding out what concerns people have and taking action on them as the best way of changing their negative view of speed cameras into a positive one.

He has been given wide-ranging powers to investigate every aspect of Victoria's traffic camera system. While he can't force the Government to make the changes he recommends, he has been given assurances that action will be taken on his findings.

To help ensure that is the case, Mr Lewis will make his recommendations public, meaning if the Government chooses not to heed those recommendations then we will all know about it and much negative publicity for the Government will ensue.  Read More  also  check out http://www.cameracommissioner.vic.gov.au/

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SA - Double your demerit points from 1st Sept

South Australia - The new demerit points/fines for offences after 1 September, 2012 include; Drivers up to 10km/h over the limit will be fined $150 and gain two demerit points. Over 10km/h but less than 20km/h will be fined $330 and gain three demerit points. General fine amounts were dropped for lesser breaches, with higher demerit point total adapted, leaving routine speeders a pay less and learn or walk option. Minister for Road Safety, Jennifer Rankine, said repeat speeders should consider themselves warned.  Since the announcement of the new fine system some 180,000 letters had been delivered to drivers with low demerit point allowances, including learner and provisional licence holders. Read More

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How Much Does A Speed Camera Make

The most profitable speed camera in the UK has been found, on average 789 drivers are caught by the camera every month. As a result, the camera makes around £586,000 a year in fines.  Back here in OZ, NSW's most profitable cameras, including the highly unpopular one on Cleveland Street at Moore Park collected $2.2 million in fines in the last financial year. Read more




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With Nearly 100m Views This Stuff Is Dynamite

Here at SpeedAlert we are big fans of TED Talks, in fact we Sponsored TEDx Youth @ The Scots College  with some fabulous speakers including Malcolm Turnbull's excellent talk on China which has over 700 views,  but here is TED's list of Top 20 Talks, with these kind of viewing numbers  they are almost up there with  Susan Boyle and Maru the funny cat.

Whats you favourite TED Talk, let us know in comments below.

Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity(2006): 13,409,417 views

Jill Bolte Taylor‘s stroke of insight(2008): 10,409,851

Pranav Mistry on the thrilling potential of SixthSense(2009): 9,223,263

David Gallo‘s underwater astonishments(2007): 7,879,541

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense(2009): 7,467,580

Tony Robbins asks Why we do what we do(2006): 6,879,488

Simon Sinek on how great leaders inspire action(2010): 6,050,294

Steve Jobs on how to live before you die(2005): 5,444,022

Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen(2006): 4,966,643

Brene Brown talks about the power of vulnerability(2010): 4,763,038

Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation(2009): 4,706,241

Arthur Benjamin does mathemagic(2005): 4,658,425

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing your genius(2009): 4,538,037

Dan Gilbert asks: Why are we happy?(2004): 4,269,082

Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe(2008): 4,153,105

Jeff Han demos his breakthrough multi-touchscreen(2006): 3,891,251

Johnny Lee shows Wii Remote hacks for educators(2008): 3,869,417

Keith Barry does brain magic(2004): 3,847,893

Mary Roach 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm(2009): 3,810,630

Vijay Kumar demos robots that fly like birds (2012): 3,535,340

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WA double speed cameras but NSW still has the most

WA's fixed speed camera fleet  will double, however, WA ranks lowest across the nation in the fixed camera tally.  It is believed New South Wales leads the states with 130 fixed speed cameras, Victoria ranks second with 22, and Queensland and South Australia follow with 15. Read more 

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National Road safety Forum (Aug2012) Focuses on Corporate Responsibility for Road Safety

National Road safety Forum  convened by the Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure and Transport, the Hon Catherine King MP on 24th aug 2012 included a Session on Corporate Responsibility for Road Safety
Facilitated by Lauchlan McIntosh AM, ACRS and ANCAP
with Presentations by 
Jeff Potter National Transport Commission
Melanie Gordon BHP Billiton
Naomi Milne Energy Resources of Australia
David Provan Origin Energy
Ken Thompson Australasian Fleet Management Association
Rob McInerney International Road Assessment Program

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QLD- Review after 46 young driver fatalities in past seven months

DRIVING tests for young Queenslanders soon could be tougher.

The state government is planning an overhaul of driving tests, driver training qualifications and tests conditions, the first in 14 years.

"The recommendations include redesigning the test format, reviewing the test locations and changing driver examiner qualifications," he said.

"The panel concluded the government should consider changes that 'more effectively assesses whether a learner driver with a minimum 100 hours of supervised driving is competent and safe enough behind the wheel to progress to a provisional licence'.

"It's important that Q-SAFE reflects the work done by parents and driving instructors, in addition to programs run by groups such as RACQ and Rotary to develop young drivers."

Perhaps SpeedAlerting technology should be considered as well.

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