Figures reveal mobile speed cameras have already caught more drivers speeding across Orange in the first five months of this financial year than they did in the entire 12 months before that.
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State Revenue Office statistics show mobile speed cameras caught 171 drivers speeding across the city in the 2019-20 financial year but they already detected a whopping 215 offences between July and December last year.
No numbers are available beyond that, but if the trend continues for the rest of the year it could mark an increase of more than 200 per cent from year to year.
In terms of the average number of speeding offences detected per month, it already marks a similar increase.
The numbers follow and contrast statistics from the State Revenue Office that show the average number of police-issued speeding fines each month had actually decreased.
With Transport NSW's Mobile Speed Camera program continuing to develop each year there is a number of factors that could play a role in such a dramatic increase, not to mention motorists simply returning to the road after coronavirus lockdowns.
However in terms of the latter being a factor, numbers don't necessarily correlate as an increase was observed between the 2019-20 financial year and the previous 12 months despite the lockdowns.
The recent changes announced to the MSC are likely to play a role in that trend continuing or not, with improvements being made to Transport NSW's capacity to detect speeding offences.
In their continued bid to improve road safety, it was announced Transport NSW would remove warning signs of mobile speed cameras, reduce their high visibility decals and more than triple the enforcement hours of vehicles.
The changes are also aimed at continuing to change the culture and attitude of drivers state-wide, of course including those in Orange.
"This isn't revenue raising, this is about saving lives," Minister for Transport and Roads Andrew Constance said.
"We've seen it happen with our world-leading mobile phone detection program, where the rate of people offending has steadily declined.
"No warnings signs mean you can be caught anywhere, anytime and we want that same culture around mobile speed cameras."
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Matt Findlay
Formerly a sports specialist, I'm based at Orange and shift between wide-spread range of subjects here and, often, across the entire Central West region of NSW as well. I have almost a decade of experience in the media and marketing industries both here in Australia and internationally, along with journalism I have experience in content strategy, brand development, and digital and social media. Along the way, I've been fortunate to win a handful of media awards and be nominated for several others too.
Formerly a sports specialist, I'm based at Orange and shift between wide-spread range of subjects here and, often, across the entire Central West region of NSW as well. I have almost a decade of experience in the media and marketing industries both here in Australia and internationally, along with journalism I have experience in content strategy, brand development, and digital and social media. Along the way, I've been fortunate to win a handful of media awards and be nominated for several others too.
