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the article wrote:NSW Roads Minister Duncan Gay has ordered that 38 speed cameras across the state be switched off immediately after an audit found that they were not improving road safety.
Mr Gay instructed the Roads and Traffic Authority to turn off the cameras after receiving a report from the state's Auditor-General, Peter Achterstraat, this morning that identified the most hated cameras in NSW.
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Mr Achterstraat's report found that "overall, speed cameras change driver behaviour and improve road safety" and concluded there was no evidence that they were simply cash cows for the government.
The report said that despite some increases in the cost of fines, revenue from speed cameras last year was "basically the same" as in 2003 and the average number of speeding fines per camera fell after cameras were installed.
But Mr Gay said he had vowed before the election to rip out any cameras that were not effective.
"While this is encouraging, the audit also found that 38 of the existing 141 fixed speed camera locations had not reduced crashes," Mr Gay said.
"There has been community concern that some cameras are purely revenue raisers and this audit has allowed us to identify them and ensure they are removed."
The audit, which the government ordered just weeks after winning the election, found that the most hated speed cameras were the M2 Tunnel-M2 Motorway (Terry Creek and Norfolk Road), the Sydney Harbour Tunnel (Cahill Expressway and Warringah Freeway) and the Lane Cove Tunnel (Mowbray Road and the Pacific Highway).
I'm already going to see benefit as i go past a number of these regularly, and the airport one nearly every day.the list wrote:38 INEFFECTIVE CAMERAS
Newcastle Road – Lambton
Bangalow Road – Clunes
New England Highway – Murrurundi
New England Highway – Tilbuster
New England Highway – Quirindi
M4 Motorway – Wentworthville/Greystanes
Brunswick Valley Way – Ocean Shores
Delhi Road – Macquarie Park
Eastern Arterial Road – Gordon
Princes Highway – Broughton
New England Highway – Scone
Princes Highway – Nowra
New England Highway Llangothlin
Princes Highway – Angledale
Pacific Highway – Kundabung
Pacific Highway – Urunga
Woy Woy Road – Kariong
Eastern Valley Way – Nth Willoughby
Hume Highway - Burwood
Bolong Road – Shoalhaven Heads
Warringah Road – Frenchs Forest
Manns Road – West Gosford
General Holmes Drive – Botany
Spit Road – Beauty Point/The Spit
Bruxner Highway – Alstonville
Hume Highway – Coolac
Hume Highway – Tarcutta
Pacific Highway – Banora Point
Pacific Highway -Herons Creek
Pacific Highway – Bundagen
President Avenue – Gymea
Carlingford Road – Epping
Blackwall Road – Woy Woy North
Ocean Beach Road – Woy Woy
Balgownie Road – Fairy Meadow
Sherwood Road – Merrylands West
Central Coast Highway – Bateau Bay
Great Western Highway - Parramatta
