m7 sydney

got this emAil today,anyone know if its on the level


Subject: M7 Speeding fines




All M7 users

The M7 have implemented speed prevention devices based on the time one
enters the motorway to time exiting.
Based on the distance, time travelled and time started and finished,
they can work out your average speed.
If it is more than 15% over the speed limit, a fine will be presented.

The NSW Labour Government have authorised this to be legal and that NO
'SPEED CAMERA WARNING SIGNS' are required as there are no actual
radars.

It is based on mathematics. So beware, your $12 trip might cost you a lot
more.

P.S. If you don't have an etag, the cameras still get your
numberplate!

W Kerr
BKG Projects and Road Engineers

 

This is possible on a number of tollways, except....

.....the toll companys do not have the power to issue fines, the
mesauring devices are not legally calibrated and (at the moment) the
RTA is not interested.

 

http://www.westlinkm7.com.au/news-Detail.asp?NewsID=80

Westlink M7 today dismissed a hoax email currently circulating that
claims that the motorway has implemented a secret speed fine based on
the time a vehicle enters and exits the motorway.

Flan Cleary, General Manager of Westlink M7, said that the email was a
hoax and that no secret speed enforcement system operates on the
Westlink M7.

Westlink supports safe driving and urges all motorists to comply with
posted speed limits.

“However, the secret speed fine system detailed in the hoax email does
not exist,” Mr Cleary said.

“Speed limits are enforced on the Westlink M7 through the normal
policing measures that operate on all NSW roads.”

“Westlink meets regularly with the NSW Highway Patrol.”

Mr Cleary said that Westlink will be installing signs that remind
motorists that speed cameras are used in NSW.

These are the standard speed camera signs seen on roads across the
state and do not mean that any new or secret speed system operates on
the Westlink M7.

 

C'mon Smee.... IT IS NSW we talking about here... christ, they only
just realised we conned them on the sale of the *Bridge*


Johno

 

It was inevitable.

Do cameras take front or back plate pics?

 

It's still only a matter of time...

 

1) technically possible but not implemented without public announcement by
RTA etc.

2)
Signed by

Wayne Kerr.....

(apologies to anyone genuinely with that name but in the current
context....)

Suspicious beat up.

 

M7...ironically about the safest, best quality stretch of road anywhere in
the State (apart from Eastern Creek)

 

I went for a drive along the M7 the 2nd last day it was for free just to see
what it was like and was impressed, on the way back i seen a HWY Patrol
chasing a guy on a bike, was going pretty bloody fast, overtook me making me
look like i was going 20kph.but i was doing 80......so the cops patrol it
like they do with most motorways and they'll get you eventually.

DJ