Fixed Red Light Speed Cameras

[EvoVIIIJDM]

Hi all

Quick question;

Red light speed cameras at major intersections, do they take photos from the rear or from the front or from both?

Cos there are two lots of cameras at an intersection, one for traffic moving one way and the other on the opposing side of the road.

Help please.

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

They take the photo from the front and are activated by a sensor after the line that only triggers it when the light has turned red.

[STEALTHY™]

Legislation was passed in SA (and i would think they were following other states) that they can't take a photo from the front. In case they 'blind' you and cause a crash.

Aswell as bikes only have rear number plates

which intersection are you talking about?

[EvoVIIIJDM]

south rd and grange rd

[STEALTHY™]

Yeah, can only get you one way. The cars crossing (grange road) can't be done either, only if your on South Road.


Keep in mind, even if the light is green, you will still get done if your speeding.

[Shounak]

Those things are killers. My mate got busted by one, he lost 6 points in one hit. Had his licence suspended for 3 months.

He did learn his lesson though..

The corner of Stud + Ftg Roads has one of those duals, it flashes like a strobe.

[VN_Luke]

The corner of Stud + Ftg Roads has one of those duals, it flashes like a strobe.

I sat on the grass near that corner and ate subway a few weeks back - counted a few grand worth of fines just in that time (presuming every flash was a fune)

[Morton]

I laugh sometimes at how many suckers get done on intersections with obvious cameras. Some people truly live in a different world

[jules]

I sat on the grass near that corner and ate subway a few weeks back - counted a few grand worth of fines just in that time (presuming every flash was a fune)

you haven't seen anything until you've driven along alexandra parade in fitzroy (melb).

most of the lights along this short stretch have cameras on them, and they love to make the light go yellow just as you approach it after leaving the previous red light, 200 metres back.

if they ever employed someone to rig it all up so that they caught more drivers, that person would come back and say "don't change anything, it's perfect!"

[pow3rslave]

my mum gets consitently done by one that's 1 k from our house. it's redlight/speed and she always fails to slow/travel at the speed limit thru it.

i guess if she's speeding she deserves it, but there has been mention in legislation and by the government that they don't/shouldn't put these at the base of hills. all the ones i see in my area seem to face so they get you when you're at the bottom of a hill

[jules]

but if it's a red light camera, you need to stop for the lights whether it's at the bottom of a hill or not.

[DND]

You need a TomTom with the speed and redlight camera POI's on it
I have my one set up to warn me at 500m before them

exspically if you going into the city I got stung last time I when to sydney on a speed camera

[Darren]

There are infra red camera's I believe being used in SA which gives them the ability of getting you from both directions, I reckon I saw one last week out the front of work on Park terrace at Bowden, it's like a flash looking thing sitting on the passenger side.

[Grennan]

The corner of Stud + Ftg Roads has one of those duals, it flashes like a strobe.

So does the one at High Street and Springvale Road. We are always at the pub there on the corner (Mountain View aka The Spew) and it goes off its head.

I laugh sometimes at how many suckers get done on intersections with obvious cameras. Some people truly live in a different world

Its pretty funny when most of them have a sign saying "Speed Cameras Are Used In Victoria" or some crap about 50 meters before it.

[VKStevo]

Legislation was passed in SA (and i would think they were following other states) that they can't take a photo from the front. In case they 'blind' you and cause a crash.

I don't get that because what about the cars travelling in the opposite direction? Its just as dangerous to them having lights flashed in their face

[Morton]

haha, the cameras in roadside cars in Melb generally take both directions on small roads. I've sat and watched them for a while, and consistently noticed them picking up traffic moving towards, and away from. On a hill.

[nodee]

They Dont exist in Tas now, due to unreliability

[J_D]

if they ever employed someone to rig it all up so that they caught more drivers, that person would come back and say "don't change anything, it's perfect!"

The probably have set them up like that on purpose, wouldnt surprise me at all. Maximizes profit for Govt Pty Ltd.

[crazywog]

every1 in melb this is dedicated to u all.
ROAD SAFETY CAMERA LOCATIONS IN VICTORIA

Approved Sites

— March 2007 —

– Location of Road Safety Cameras –
Red light only wet film cameras (84 sites)
• Armadale, Kooyong Road and Malvern Road
• Ascot Vale, Maribyrnong Road and Mt Alexander Road
• Balwyn, Balwyn Road and Whitehorse Road
• Bayswater, Bayswater Road and Mountain Highway
• Bendigo, High Street and Don Street
• Bendigo, Myrtle Street and High Street
• Box Hill, Canterbury Road and Station Street
• Box Hill, Station Street and Thames Street
• Brighton, Bay Street and Street Kilda Street
• Brunswick, Melville Road and Albion Street
• Brunswick, Nicholson Street and Glenlyon Road
• Bulleen, Manningham Road and Thompsons Road
• Bundoora, Grimshaw Street and Marcorna Street
• Bundoora, Plenty Road and Settlement Road
• Burwood, Highbury Road and Huntingdale Road
• Burwood, Warrigal Road and Highbury Road
• Camberwell, Prospect Hill Road and Burke Road
• Camberwell, Toorak Road and Burke Road
• Carlton, Elgin Street and Nicholson Street
• Caulfield, Balaclava Road and Kooyong Road
• Caulfield, Glen Eira Road and Kooyong Road
• Chadstone, Warrigal Road and Batesford Road
• Chadstone, Warrigal Road and Batesford Road
• Cheltenham, Warrigal Road and Centre Dandenong Road
• Clayton, Dandenong Road and Clayton Road
• Clayton, North Road and Clayton Road
• Coburg, Harding Street and Sydney Road
• Collingwood, Johnston Street and Hoddle Street
• Corio, Princes Highway and Purnell Road
• Corio, Princes Highway and Sparks Road
• Dandenong, McCrae Street and Foster Street
• Dandenong, Princes Highway and Heatherton Road
• Doncaster, Doncaster Road and Wetherby Road
• East Brighton, Nepean Highway and Centre Road
• East Brunswick, Blyth Street and Lygon Street
• East Burwood, Burwood Highway and Blackburn Road
• Elwood, Brighton Road and Glen Eira Road
• Fairfield, Heidelberg Road and Station Street
• Footscray, Geelong Road and Droop Street
• Geelong, La Trobe Tce and Myers Street
• Geelong, Moorabool Street and Fyans Street
• Geelong, Settlement Road and Torquay Road
• Geelong North, Thompson Road and Separation Street
• Geelong West, Church Street and Shannon Ave
• Glen Waverley, Waverley Road and Blackburn Road
• Hallam, Princes Highway and South Gippsland Freeway
• Hawthorn, Barkers Road and Glenferrie Road
• Highett, Nepean Highway and Highett Road
• Kensington, Smithfield Road and Epsom Road
• Kew, Chandler Highway and Eastern Freeway
• Kew, Charles Street and Cotham Road
• Kew, Denmark Sreet and Barkers Road
• Kew, Glenferrie Road and Wellington Street
Road Safety Camera Locations in Victoria
Current at March 2007 Page 3
• Keysborough, Cheltenham Road and Springvale Road
• Maidstone, Ballarat Road and Ashley Street
• Maidstone, Ballarat Road and Churchill Ave
• Mt Waverley, Blackburn Road and High Street Road
• Mt Waverley, Blackburn Road and South Eastern Freeway
• Mt Waverley, High Street Road and Stephensons Road
• Mulgrave, Springvale Road and Wellington Road
• Newtown, Shannon Ave and Aphrasia Street
• North Carlton, Royal Parade and Cemetery Road
• North Clayton, Wellington Road and Blackburn Road
• Northcote, Street Georges Road and Normanby Ave
• North Coburg, Murray Road and Elizabeth Street
• Nunawading, Maroondah Highway and Springvale Road
• Oakleigh, Ferntree Gully Road and Clayton Road
• Oakleigh, Warrigal Road and North Road
• Prahran, Punt Road and High Street
• Preston, Albert Street and Gower Street
• Preston, Bell Street and Street Georges Road
• Preston, Gilbert Road and Murray Road
• Richmond, Church Street and Elizabeth Street
• South Oakleigh, Centre Road and Warrigal Road
• South Yarra, Punt Road and Toorak Road
• St Kilda, Barkly Street and Carlisle Street
• St Kilda, Fitzroy Street and Princes Street
• St Kilda, Glen Eira Road and Hotham Street
• Strathmore, Pascoe Vale Road and Peck Ave
• Surrey Hills, Canterbury Road and Warrigal Road
• Waurn Ponds, Princes Highway and Pioneer Road
• West Footscray, Geelong Street and Geelong Road
• West Melbourne, Spencer Street and Dudley Street
• Yarraville, Williamstown Road and Somerville Road
Digital Red Light Speed Cameras (82 sites covering 78
intersections)
• Abbotsford, Hoddle Street and Victoria Street
• Armadale, Kooyong Road and Dandenong Road
• Armadale, Princes Highway and Orrong Road
• Balaclava, Carlisle Street and Hotham Street
• Balwyn North, Doncaster Road and Gardenia Road
• Balwyn North, The Boulevard and Burke Road
• Balwyn, Whitehorse Road and Burke Road
• Bayswater, Canterbury Road and Bayswater Road
• Blackburn North, Middleborough Road and Eastern Fwy
• Blackburn, Whitehorse Road and Surrey Road
• Box Hill, Elgar Road and Arnold Street
• Box Hill, Station Street and Thames Street
• Box Hill, Whitehorse Road and Elgar Road
• Braybrook, Ashley Street and Churchill Ave
• Brighton East, Thomas Street and North Road
• Burwood East, Blackburn Road and Burwood Hwy
• Camberwell, Glen Iris Road and Toorak Road
• Campbelfield, Sydney Road and Barry Road
• Carlton, Nicholson Street and Victoria Street
• Carlton, Princes Street and Rathdowne Street
• Caulfield North, Hawthorn Road and Inkerman Road
• Caulfield, Glen Eira Road and Kooyong Road
• Cheltenham, Park Road and Charman Road
• Clayton South, Centre Road and Springs Road
• Clayton, Centre Road and Buckland Street
• Collingwood, Johnston Street and Wellington Street
• Coolaroo, Barry Street and King Street
• Croydon, Mt. Dandeneong Road and Dorset Road
Road Safety Camera Locations in Victoria
Current at March 2007 Page 4
• Dandenong North, Gladstone Road and Heatherton Road
• Dandenong, Lonsdale Street and Webster Street
• East Melbourne, Hoddle Street and Victoria Street
• East Melbourne, Nicholson Street and Albert Street
• East Melbourne, Victoria Street and Nicholson Street
• Echuca, Ogilvie Ave (Northern Hwy) and High Street
• Ferntree Gully, Burwood Hwy and Selman Ave
• Fitzroy North, Alexandra Parade and George Street
• Fitzroy North, Alexandra Parade and Smith Street
• Footscray, Gordon Street and Barkly Street
• Glen Iris, High Street and Summerhill Road
• Glen Waverley, Springvale Road and High Street Road
• Hawthorn, Glenferrie Road and Burwood Road
• Highett, Nepean Hwy and Karen Street
• Ironbark, Loddon Valley Hwy and Calder Hwy
• Kew East, Harp Road and Burke Road
• Malvern East, Princes Highway East and Belgrave Road
• Melbourne Airport, Terminal Drive and Centre Road
• Melbourne, Elizabeth Street and La Trobe Street
• Melbourne, Elizabeth Street and Victoria Street
• Melbourne, Flinders Street and William Street
• Melbourne, St Kilda Road and Union Street
• Melbourne, Victoria Street and Swanston Street
• Melbourne, William Street and Flinders Street
• Melbourne, William Street and Little Collins Street
• Mentone, Nepean Hwy and Warrigal Road
• Narre Warren, Princes Highway and Webb Street
• Newtown, Shannon Ave and Noble Street
• Noble Park, Heatherton Road and Corrigan Road
• Noble Park, Lightwood Road and Corrigan Road
• Norlane, The Boulevard and Melbourne Road
• Northcote, Georges Road and Arthurton Road
• Parkville, Flemington Road and Gatehouse Street
• Pascoe Vale Sth, Sussex Street and Ohea Street
• Preston, Bell Street and Plenty Road
• Ringwood, Ringwood Road and Maroondah Hwy
• Scoresby, Stud Road Ferntree Gully Road
• South Geelong, LaTrobe Terrace and Fyans Road
• South Melbourne, Kingsway and Park Street
• South Yarra, Alexandra Ave and Church Street
• South Yarra, Punt Road and Domain Road
• St Kilda, Alma Road and Chapel Street
• Sunshine, Duke Street and Ballarat Road
• Surrey Hills, Mont Albert Road and Union Road
• Surrey Hills, Union Road and Mont Albert Road
• Templestowe Lower, High Street and Verene Avenue
• Templestowe Lower, Manningham Road and Macedon Road
• Wantirna South, High Street Road and Stud Road
• Wantirna, Boronia Road and Wantirna Road
• Wantirna, Mountain Hwy and Wantirna Road
• West Melbourne, King Street and Hawke Street*
• West Melbourne, Latrobe Street and Spencer Street
• West Melbourne, Peel Street and Victoria Street
• Yarraville, Sommerville Road and Geelong Road
Cameras that are currently wet film red light to be converted to digital red light speed
City Link fixed digital speed cameras (7 sites)
• Burnley Tunnel (4 sites)
• Domain Tunnel (2 sites)
• Monash Freeway, Inbound
Road Safety Camera Locations in Victoria
Geelong Road fixed digital speed cameras (8 sites)
• Altona North (2 sites)
• Hoppers Crossing (2 sites)
• Lara (2 sites)
• Little River (2 sites)
Hume Freeway time-over-distance speed cameras (10 sites)
• Beveridge (2 sites)
• Broadford (2 sites)
• Craigieburn (2 sites)
• Epping (2 sites)
• Wallan (2 sites)
Western Ring Road (8 sites)
• Ardeer
• Deer Park
• Glenroy
• Jacana
• Keilor East
• Keilor Park
• Laverton North
• Sunshine West
Westgate Freeway (2 sites)
• Between Spotswood and Port Melbourne

NOTE: Camera sites may not all be functioning at any given time due to the rigorous ongoing maintenance and
testing regime.

[Morton]

• Blackburn North, Middleborough Road and Eastern Fwy

hahaha, I live right next to that one. It's at the end of a LONG downhill run from Springfield road. Downhill for about half a mile to the freeway overpass, and they've slung it just around a corner at the bottom of the hill. LOVE IT. Seen so many suckers get done there ^^ There's no doubt that camera has payed for itself many times over

[mar-d-mac]

crazywog, u r crazy, too much time on ur hands...well done though for highlighting locations for members in melb...

there should be more of them, but then u would need more staff to process the increase in fines...

i'm amazed how many ppl nowadays are running the gauntlet just to save a five minutes....

my philosophy is - is 5 minutes (+) worth someone's life....

[andrewmac]

Its actually fairly hard to get done by a fixed speed camera in NSW cause there are three big warning signs before the cameras
How ppl get done by these amazes me as it couldnt be more blatantly obvious that they are coming up.
I went to Melbourne one weekend and got done for doin 5 KM over in a 60 zone which was also at the bottom of a hill.
The gov down there are obviously concerned with revenue.

[Reaper]

There are infra red camera's I believe being used in SA which gives them the ability of getting you from both directions, I reckon I saw one last week out the front of work on Park terrace at Bowden, it's like a flash looking thing sitting on the passenger side.

The infra red speed cameras can book you going either direction. In Vic (at least) all of the red light cameras book you from behind and the photo is set up so that 2 frames are taken with the red light in the shot to show you entered the intersection while the red was illuminated. One shot is taken as you pass over the white line and another is taken a short time after that to prove you have entered the intersection (and not just rolled your front wheels slightly over the line).

Reaper

[azkwazere]

Its actually fairly hard to get done by a fixed speed camera in NSW cause there are three big warning signs before the cameras
How ppl get done by these amazes me as it couldnt be more blatantly obvious that they are coming up.
I went to Melbourne one weekend and got done for doin 5 KM over in a 60 zone which was also at the bottom of a hill.
The gov down there are obviously concerned with revenue.

i know! i was in sydney a while back and it goes:

Warning Speed Camera Ahead
Warning, your getting closer to a camera
SLOW THE **** DOWN, theres a camera
50meters till a camera
THIS IS THE CAMERA!
You have just passed a camera
Next camera 1km

its a joke around there

aZk.

[crazywog]

yeh mar d mac i have more info on more locations of cameras just gotta find the site to post the info up.
here we go more coming ur way:
Speed Cameras
These are the latest locations for fixed speed camera's in Victoria.

Location Direction(s)

Ardeer On Top Western Highway Exit Gantry Geelong bound
Geelong Bound
Laverton North Behind Signs at Boundary Rd Exit Geelong Bound
Laverton North On top of signs at Boundary Rd Exit Greensborough Bound
Wondong Hume Highway 55km nth of Melbourne, prior to Whittlesea-Wallan
Overpass
Westgate Bridge Cameras in all lanes, both directions City & Geelong
Bound
Caulfield North Cnr Dandenong & Orrong Rds City Bound Lanes
Glenroy Pascoe Vale Road Overpass, Western Ring Road Both Ways
East Keilor Behind Keilor Park overpass on Western Ring Road Out bound
lanes
South Yarra Monash Freeway, behind signs just before Punt Rd cross-over
City Bound lanes
Rowville Intersection Stud Rd & Wellington Rd All directions
Albert Park St Kilda Rd-Union Street Intersection (All directions where
not)
Armadale Dandenong Rd-Kooyong Rd intersection Specified)
Armadale Cnr Dandenong & Orrong Rds (see Caulfield North)
Ashburton High St-Summerhill Rd Intersection
Balwyn North Doncaster Rd-Gardenier St Intersection
Bayswater Baywater-Canterbury Rd Intersection All directions (4 way cam)
Bayswater North Canterbury & Dorset Rd Intersection
Bendigo Calder Highway-Loddon Valley Highway intersection
Box Hill North Elgar Rd-Arnold St Intersection
Box Hill North Station-Thames St Intersection
Brighton Thomas St-North Rd Intersection
Campbellfield Hume Highway(Sydney Rd)-Barry Rd Intersection
Caulfield Kooyong-Glen Eira Rd Intersection All directions (4 way cam)
Caulfield North Hawthorn-Inkerman St Intersection
Cheltenham Charman-Park Rd Intersection
Clayton Centre Rd-Springs Rd Intersection
Clayton Centre Rd-Buckley St Intersection
Collingwood Jonhstone St-Wellington St Intersection
Coburg Gaffney St-Syndey Rd Intersection
Coburg Sussex St-Chea St
Croydon Mt Dandenong Rd-Dorset Rd Intersection
Dandenong Heatherton Rd-Gladstone Rd Intersection
Dandenong Princes Highway-Walker St Intersection
Dandenong Princes Highway-Webster St Intersection
Doncaster Eastern Freeway, Middleborough Rd overpass and intersection
East Kew Harp Rd-Bourke Rd Intersection
East Kew Bourke Rd-The Boulevard Intersection
Echuca Oglvie Avenue-Murray Valley Highway Intersection
Ferntree Gully Burwood Highway-Selman Ave Intersection
Fitzroy Smith St-Alexandra Pde Intersection
Fitzroy Alexandra Pde-George St Intersection
Fitzroy North Brunswick Rd-Nicholson St Intersection
Footscray Gordon St-Barkly St Intersection
Geelong Shannon Av-Noble St Intersection
Geelong La Trobe Terrace-Fyans Rd Intersection
Glen Iris Toorak Rd-Glen Iris Rd Intersection
Glen Waverly Springvale Rd-High Street Rd Intersection
Greensborough Para Rd-Main St Intersection
Hawthorn Denmark St-Barkers Rd Intersection
Hawthorn Glenferrie Rd-Barkers Rd Intersection
Hawthorn Burwood Rd-Glenferrie Rd Intersection
Kew Burke Rd-Cotham Rd Intersection
Lower Templestowe Manningham Rd-Macedon Rd Intersection
Lower Templestowe High St-Lynwood Parade Intersection
Tullamarine Airport Drive & Arrival Drive
CBD Flinders St-William St Intersection
CBD William St-Little Collins St Intersection
CBD Elizabeth St-Victoria St Intersection
CBD Elizabeth St-La Trobe St Intersection
Mentone Nepean Highway-Warrigal Rd Intersection
Mildura Deakin Avenue-Eleventh St Intersection
Mildura Deakin Avenue-Thirteenth St Intersection
Mont Albert Whitehorse Rd- Intersection
Narre Warren Princes Highway-Webb St Intersection
Noble Park Princes Highway-Heatherton Rd Intersection
Noble Park Heatherton Rd-Corrigan St Intersection
Noble Park Corrigan Rd-Lightwood Rd Intersection
Northcote Seperation St-Victoria Rd Intersection
Oak Park Pascoe Vale Rd-Devon Rd Intersection
Parkville Flemington Rd-Gatehouse St Intersection
Rowville Stud Rd-Wellington Rd Intersection
Scoresby Stud Rd-Ferntree Gully Rd Intersection
South Melbourne Montague St-Normanby Rd Intersection
St Albans Furlong Rd-St Albans Rd Intersection
St Kilda East Alms Rd-Chapel St Intersection
St Kilda East Carlisle St-Hotham St Intersection
Sunshine Ballarat Rd-Duke St Intersection
Surrey Hills Canterbury Rd-Elgar Rd Intersection
Surrey Hills Union Rd-Mont Albert Rd Intersection
Thornbury St Georges Rd-Normanby Avenue Intersection
Wantirna Mountain Highway-Wantirna Rd Intersection
Wantirna Boronia Rd-Wantirna Rd Intersection
West Melbourne King St-Hawke St Intersection
Windsor Dandenong Rd-Chapel St Intersection
Yarraville Geelong Rd-Somerville Rd Intersection
Yarraville Melbourne Rd-The Boulevard Intersection
Yarraville Williamstown Rd-Francis St Intersection


Here's a quick summary of on what roads the cameras can be found:

Westgate Freeway - Princes Highway - Operational.
1. Top of Westgate Bridge
2. Hoppers Crossing Overpass
3. Point Cook Overpass
4. Point Wilson Overpass
5. Little River Overpass
6. Corio
7. Norlane - (just before the waterslide)

Note: These are elapsed time trigger cameras, they estimate your average
driving speed between checkpoints. So slowing down before each overpass
will not fool them.

Western Ring Road - Operational
1. Boundary Road - Laverton North
2. Western Highway - Ardeer
3. Calder Freeway - Keilor East
4. Tullamarine Freeway - Tullamarine
5. Pascoe Vale Road - Glenroy
6. High Street - Thomastown
7. Plenty Road

The Eastern Freeway 5 cameras, operational.

The Monash a further 5 cameras in addition to the one that has been
operational since 28/12/01. This one is approximately 600 metres from the
entrance to the Burnley Tunnel.



The Calder Freeway from Keilor Park Drive to Kyneton has been earmarked
for 9 cameras, estimated operational date to be advised.

The Hume Highway to Albury has been earmarked for 11 cameras.
Other Highways and main Arterials on the proposed list are as follows;

State Highways
Western Highway - Ardeer to Ballarat
South Gippsland highway - Dandenong to Phillip Island
Goulburn Valley Highway - Seymour to Shepparton
Princess Highway - Pakenham to Traralgon

Melbourne Metropolitan Arterial Roads
Mount Alexander road
Nepean Highway
Dandenong Road
Burwood Highway
Geelong Road
Sydney Road
Springvale Road
Ferntree Gully Road