Comment on ‘Something doesn’t add up’: the small Queensland town united in its fight against speed camera fines
abhibeckert@beehaw.org 11 months agoGods that data is appalling. Is it really likely that that rate speeding is really going on? Especially after the first few days once the locals are familiar with the placement of the camera and won’t be caught unawares.
I bet none of those fines were locals. It’s a major highway and the locals know the speed limit and how heavily it is enforced.
It’s a major interstate route…
If it were a major interstate route, it would have a name, instead of being called Small Town-Smaller Town Rd (Malanda-Atherton Rd). It also wouldn’t be 250km north of the last major route to the NT (Flinders Hwy) or 20km west of the road to Cairns (Bruce Hwy). Your claim is completely untrue.
If it were a major interstate route, it would have a name
It’s effectively part of National Route 1 - the highway route that goes around the coast through every coastal city on mainland Australia.
It’s not officially part of it, but Route 1 has a bridge that was partially closed three years ago — reduced to one way traffic with lights on either end, and load limits that block it from being used by heavy vehicles. It doesn’t seem like the bridge is going to be fixed - they’re likely to move the highway instead. In the mean time (and possibly permanently), Atherton-Malanda Rd is the detour for most of the traffic that used to take National Route 1.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I thought about that, but the fact is that the way the article presents it gives us no reason to believe that’s the case.