Road Safety Camera/road Incident Thread

[JEPPE]

As I noticed a couple of new/sneaky road safety cameras put up recently I thought it would be handy to let everyone know about cameras around Melbourne.

Feel free to post up any fixed, portable cameras you see around the place so that others can be aware. Posts can be handy for anyone who checks the forum before they head somewhere. Also, post incidents if they are making a big difference to traffic (eg Western Ring Road). This might be able to help us avoid painful driving experiences.

PLEASE NOTE: This is not a thread for slagging out cops or cameras, purely informative of their where abouts. Please keep on topic with the following format.

SUBURB: Street/Intersection, direction, time (if car mounted or incident), any details/notes. Map if you can be stuffed

A couple that I have become aware of recently:

DONCASTER: Williamsons Road, intersection of Doncaster Road heading south. Speed and red light camera for straight and RH turn (put up recently) Map Linky

ST KILDA: Fitzroy Street, intersection of Lakeside Drive. 40 km/h zone which got a whole bunch of people I know by surprise. Map Linky

[adznight]

Keep this thread on topic, I'll be watching and removing any post other than -

SUBURB: Street/Intersection, direction, time (if car mounted or incident), any details/notes. Map.

[jkotsa]

New speed and red light cameras

Fixed speed camera and redlight camera heading south cnr doncaster rd and vicoria st doncaster</br>

mobile speed camera corner wyena way and king st doncaster </br>

[Charles89]

This is like a SAU trapstar lol.

Anyway, possible mobile cameras:

Mentone: Approx 85 Lower Dandenong Road just after KFC heading towards Dingley.

Braeside: Approx 340 Lower Dandenong Road, city bound. (Cops hiding behind bush)

Dingley: Lower Dandenong Road (between Heathland Way & McArdle St) outside of the primary school.

Also, I have an idea, what if a mod/admin keep editing the first post and keep adding cameras when reported? So we can have like a LONG list of cameras?

[Harey]

No point reinventing the wheel:

http://www.roadwatch.com.au/speedcameras.asp

Help keep this database up to date. If you see one that isnt on there, send them an email. I have suggested 3 that have been put up there. Much handier having a map too.

[Harey]

Found another one with more info: http://www.trapster.com/

[Charles89]

No point reinventing the wheel:

http://www.roadwatch.com.au/speedcameras.asp

Help keep this database up to date. If you see one that isnt on there, send them an email. I have suggested 3 that have been put up there. Much handier having a map too.

That site is cool, but it only has fixed cameras..... It doesn't have mobile cameras or "road incidents".

Found another one with more info: http://www.trapster.com/

That's what I meant by "SAU Trapstar" lol. I think most of us that owns an iPhone has that app

[MUZT3K]

mobile camera on mitcham rd, just before maroondah hwy, loves sitting in that spot..always see him on the way home from work

[W0rp3D]

That's what I meant by "SAU Trapstar" lol. I think most of us that owns an iPhone has that app

i had it on my N95 as well, now have it on the iphone but dont use it much.

[SKYL1N]

big fan of trapster on my BB

[JEPPE]

MONASH FWY. Just after warragul road exit - outbound. Was stand still traffic an hour ago (12.30), got out of it by doing a u-turn inbetween the fwy O_O. Was the worst. Some sort of incident up ahead. So if you're heading home tonight after the city you are probably not going to read this, but jump off at Warragul road and take a different route.

Oh, also MELBOURNE, Spencer street tonight... they now block off one edge of the city for football?? It took me an hour to get from Melbourne Central to South Melbourne.. So I would pretty much avoid driving there any time there is footy.

[Charles89]

i had it on my N95 as well, now have it on the iphone but dont use it much.

Yeah, after having Trapstar on my iPhone for like a month, with push notifications, I ended up turning it off, coz it was sucking up too much of my battery.

I mean the app is good and useful and all, but I'd rather having more batterylife then having fake Trapstar reports coming through every 5mins lol.

[JEPPE]

PLEASE NOTE: This is not a thread for slagging out cops or cameras, purely informative of their where abouts. Please keep on topic with the following format.

Please keep on topic

ps, I checked out some of those sites and noticed there are a few cameras missing... so this might still be handy.

[JEPPE]

ST HELENA/PLENTY?GREENSBOROUGH Greensborough Bypass Greensborough bound, 30 mins ago, cops radaring peeps

[shanusr33]

On Princess Hwy Dandenong Road heading outbound there is a speed/redlight camera at Clayton Rd... but I have also noticed just back from the intersection there is another camera aimed at the flashing '40' sign.

I'm assuming, and can anybody clarify, does that mean during school times the camera speed is set to catch people over 40 limit, when usually its and 80 zone? I've never left work early enough to be driving through there at school times, but this is my guess!?!?

[MrWindsurf]

Dandenong South, Pound Rd and South Gippsland Hwy - They are removing the round about there over the next week or so and putting in an intersection. So far traffic flow has been pretty reasonable going inbound for me on the way home from work.

Yeah I've noticed that one on williamsons rd too sneaky buggers, there was also a 40zone for like 100 meters on the way towards that speed camera outside shopping down on williamsoms rd but that has now been removed.

There is a new 40zone on doncaster road as you go past shoppingtown going outbound.

[W0rp3D]

Dandenong South, Pound Rd and South Gippsland Hwy - They are removing the round about there over the next week or so and putting in an intersection. So far traffic flow has been pretty reasonable going inbound for me on the way home from work.

there also expanding the road towards cranbourne to 3 lanes and adding lanes to the ponud road bridge over the freeway, has taken them more than a month to get where thay are now so expect it to continue for a lot longer than a week.

Edited June 24, 2010 by W0rp3D

[bluejeans]

saw two police officers standing on the side of a road behind a street pole - using a hand held speed gun down balwyn road today..

[wanzi]

popular spots for roadside camera to sit:

- opposite the burwood hwy end of cathies lane in knox. usually is a rav 4 that sites there.

- stud road, scoresby. usually a station wagon parked on the grass down from the bus stop about 100m or so from the george street lights.

- next to the audi dealership on burwood hwy, burwood. copper usually sits in the driveway next door with the radar.

- bayswater road, heading towards cantebury road. just after passing over boronia road, roadside camera usually on the right hand nature strip.

- warragul road, oakleigh. heading towards princes hwy. just after passing over the station a roadside camera sometimes parks behind a tree.