Speedsters deliver a ‘cash cow’ for Labor

ANALYSIS of state Budget figures revealed the Labor Government is preparing for a huge windfall from speed cameras.

REVENUE from speed cameras and other fines in Queensland is expected to rocket to $520 million a year by 2022, the LNP says.

Opposition analysis of state Budget figures revealed the Labor Government is preparing for a huge windfall from speed cameras, with an expected 30 per cent increase.

Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington said Queenslanders were being used as a “cash cow” by the Palaszczuk Government.

“A single speed camera costing Queenslanders almost $5000 an hour is not about road safety, it’s blatant revenue raising,” she said.

“Sadly, road fatalities are up more than 10 per cent from this time last year and it is clear that real road safety action is needed instead of greedy mobile speed camera cash grabs.

“High visibility policing will always be better at enforcing safe driving than fines being sent to drivers long after they were caught speeding.”

But the Government rejected the assertion, pointing to a Monash University Accident Research Centre study which found Queensland’s road safety cameras, 98 per cent of them mobile speed cameras, prevented 3400 crashes in 2015.

The Queensland road toll is 15 up on last year. More than 20 pedestrians have been died.