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Beware when visiting Canberra - ACT Gov is stooping to low acts of money grabbing.
Posted: 15 Feb 2022 04:33 AM PST
https://vk2kfj.blogspot.com/2022/02/beware-when-visiting-canberra-act-gov.html
This is a pic looking southbound on Northbourne Ave in Canberra, just
before Cooyong st, the speed limit drops from 60km/hr to 40km/hr with only these small signs to warn you that speed limit has dropped. This section
was 60km/hr. This is a six lane major thoroughfare, that follows from the Federal Highway and becomes Northbourne Ave and continues across Canberra
to Woden and onto Tuggeranong. This is the "main" thoroughfare of
Canberra. The ACT Gov obviously strapped for cash, came up with this new
cash grab. This must be recent, I don't remember seeing this last December (2021) but its now there is January 2022. The joke of these picture is the
tiny speed signs say "High pedestrian activity". High pedestrian activity
in Canberra ? these public servants must have led a sheltered life, try coming to Sydney city, then they might understand what "high pedestrian activity" really means.
Well screw you ACT Gov, I will go out of my way not to come to Canberra for tourist visits and tell everyone not to visit Canberra. If this ploy was
for safety, then the ACT Gov should have put big 2metre high speed signs
and flashing lights, and ripple strips on the roadway to get driver's attention.
Sorry ACT Gov you just got caught out with a deliberate cash grab
entrapment. The even sadder thing here, is the AFP are now being used to collect the dirty money on behalf of ACT Gov. Lucky, I was dawdling at
less than 40km/hr looking for a particular address, if I had been coming
down there at 60km/hr, then I would have been severely stung.
It was bad enough to previously catch out the ACT Gov operating a faulty
fixed speed camera at Watson, you almost got away with your dodgy camera,
but I caught you out then. I should have pursued it with Auditor Generals
Dept.
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