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The warnings are over: mobile phone cameras set to start biting motorists | Riotact (the-riotact.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After a year of watching and waiting, Canberra’s mobile phone detection cameras are about to strike.

Drivers snapped with a phone on their lap or in their hands by the overhead-mounted cameras will be issued an infringement and demerit points from Tuesday next week (20 February).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Ha, only $600? Yous have it easy down in the ACT. The fine here in Queensland is double that. The same cameras also do seatbelts, which have an equal fine.

Personally I'm not a fan of the fact that it applies even when stopped at lights. It should maybe still be an offence, but a different and significantly lesser one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

So i don't think the setup here would work at traffic lights. The counter argument is that if you're not moving when the light goes green you're probably creating congestion in the network, when people get annoyed they become worst drivers and do stupid things like run reds (My personal most annoying traffic behaviour seen far too often in Canberra).

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