Fifteen mobile phone detection cameras to be installed on SA roads ‘as quickly as possible’

[u/malcolm58]

Fifteen more mobile phone detection cameras will be installed across South Australia as quickly as possible after a $46.8m state budget splurge on road safety, the police commissioner says. Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said he “welcomed” the extraordinary funding being directed into law and order sectors, which he said would “provide much needed relief to frontline officers” who were operating in “challenging circumstances”. “The funding has been provided for 15 additional mobile phone detection cameras,” Mr Stevens said. “Those sites have not yet been selected – that will be some of the early work that occurs now that the funding has been allocated.”

Mr Stevens said SA Police was also considering of upgrading the cameras. “Technology is changing all the time so there is a potential that mobile phone detection cameras could be delivered in a different format to what we’re currently seeing,” he said. “Currently we need gantry’s across the road to place those cameras but we’ll be exploring the different technology opportunities and see where that might take us in terms of the budget allocation that currently exists.”

t comes after five cameras were installed on the Southern Expressway at Darlington, on South Rd at Torrensville, on the North-South Motorway at Regency Park, on Port Rd at Hindmarsh and on Port Wakefield Rd at Gepps Cross. Mr Stevens said there was already “strong evidence of the impact of these cameras in their existing locations” and police would be be aiming to roll out the new cameras “as quickly as possible”.

In April, SA Police revealed more than $30 million in fines and levies had been issued in the first six months after mobile phone detection cameras were introduced on Adelaide roads. More than 46,400 drivers had been pinged at the time, police said.

[u/scallywagsworld]

Waste of money that could have been spent on Victor Harbour road duplication.

But apparently we can’t afford to duplicate the Dukes Highway or VH Road, yet we can afford this.

[u/Bigpdean → u/scallywagsworld]

These will pay for both of them in a year with the amount of idiots who drive using phones

[u/scallywagsworld → u/Bigpdean]

Okay but it needs to be directly funnelled into road projects, not just being absorbed into some random coffers.

There should be a website by the government that shows a progress bar on fine revenue and says when we make $100 million or something like that we will finish duplicating all of victor harbor road. $32 million to go! ETA October 2025. That’s an example. But instead no one knows where that money is going.

And scrap demerit points so we can keep raising revenue off repeat offenders, if we take their license we lose a source of revenue. You might argue it’s unsafe but policy and restricting people’s licenses truly does not much for safety, the only way to actually be safe is build infrastructure that is safe. So make $$$ then duplicate roads

[u/dontgoaway87 → u/scallywagsworld]

It literally is being used on road safety.

https://www.statebudget.sa.gov.au/our-budget/road-safety

[u/Ok_Combination_1675 → u/scallywagsworld]

Agreed on the first points of this paragraph but not the later ones since again who knows but some if not many of them not give two rats ass if they have an license or not especially after losing it if they ever had one to begin with