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Speaker 1: Warning signs for fixed speed cameras will be rolled out

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Speaker 1: across the country. The government hopes this move will allow

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Speaker 1: key with the opportunity to check their speeds in high

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Speaker 1: crash areas to avoid tickets and accidents. The rollout's going

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Speaker 1: to take place as MZTA takes over speed camera responsibility

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Speaker 1: from police. The speed signs are already going up and

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Speaker 1: are expected to be fully implemented by June of next year.

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Speaker 1: Samin Brown is the Transport Minister and is with us

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Speaker 1: this afternoon. Cailder Minister, Good afternoon, je, So talk us

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Speaker 1: through what's happening in the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: Well, today we unveiled the first of mzta's speed camera signs.

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Speaker 2: This is about ensuring that motorists have good signage head

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Speaker 2: of speed cameras to ensure that they are able to

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Speaker 2: be warned are just their speed if necessary. Ultimately, speed

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Speaker 2: cameras are about improving safety on our roads rather than

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Speaker 2: simply just revenue raising, which is a fear that many

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Speaker 2: motorers have.

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Speaker 1: Yeah talk us through the alternative, because there will be

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Speaker 1: a lot of people who say, isn't the whole point

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Speaker 1: of speed cameras to catch out people?

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Speaker 2: When this meeting, well, ultimately they're about improving safety on

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Speaker 2: our roads and so if you do break the law. Ultimately,

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Speaker 2: speed cameras are there in order to make people who

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Speaker 2: are speeding to pay a fine. But at the same

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Speaker 2: time they're also about improving safety and if people don't

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Speaker 2: have an opportunity to check their speed are just if necessary,

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Speaker 2: then ultimately people do see them as simply just being

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Speaker 2: about revenue raising, which is certainly not what they're intended

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Speaker 2: to be. So this government will be rolling out the

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Speaker 2: signage across all fixed camera sites across the country over

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Speaker 2: the next twelve months. There's been two so far, second

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Speaker 2: one in Wellington today we progressively rolled out so all

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Speaker 2: fixed camera sites have signage to warn motorists ahead of

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Speaker 2: them approaching these cameras.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, important to point out that this is the fixed

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Speaker 1: speed cameras right as opposed to mobile speed cameras.

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Speaker 2: Correct, So the reality is, you know, ultimately if motoris

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Speaker 2: aren't breaking the law, there could be mobile cameras and

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Speaker 2: other places. This is about fixed cameras which are meant

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Speaker 2: to be in a high risk spots where there is

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Speaker 2: a risk to others, and ultimately it's important that motorists

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Speaker 2: keep to the speed limit.

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Speaker 1: Yes, So just to imagine here that I'm a motorist,

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Speaker 1: what is to stop me from speeding until I get

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Speaker 1: right up to the area where you've got a sign

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Speaker 1: saying there's a speed camera going slowly through that area,

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Speaker 1: and then immediately speeding up again afterwards.

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Speaker 2: Well, ultimately, you know, reality is that the law is

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Speaker 2: the air, and we all motorists must follow the law.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, speed cameras are there to

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Speaker 2: ensure that in high risk locations motorists are following the law.

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Speaker 2: And so that's why their signage is important to encourage

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Speaker 2: motorists to check their speed. It's about ensuring they've got

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to slow down so they're not just simply

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Speaker 2: penged wind going past, and it's about giving that warning

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Speaker 2: ahead of But at the same time, the mobile cameras

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Speaker 2: which the police, which we transfer every toy ZTA as well,

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Speaker 2: they will continue to operate across our roading network at

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Speaker 2: the same time.

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Speaker 1: I suppose that that's the other theory with this though, right,

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Speaker 1: that motorists will simply drive quickly and then when they

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Speaker 1: get to a speed camera or they'll slow down and

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Speaker 1: then they'll speed up again afterwards. And I suppose if

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Speaker 1: there wasn't a sign and they got pinged for that,

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Speaker 1: then that might mean they slow down everywhere a bit

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Speaker 1: more in the future. Can you understand that?

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Speaker 2: Well, ultimately that's ultimately mobile cameras can operate anywhere at

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Speaker 2: any time, and motorists are required to keep to the

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Speaker 2: speed limit. You know, the government's got a separate piece

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Speaker 2: of work underway around making sure that we don't just

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Speaker 2: simply have blankets speed limits to slow everyone down and

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Speaker 2: make them crawl through our cities. But where there are

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Speaker 2: where what the law requires, motoris are required to keep

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Speaker 2: to the speed limit, and these signs are about providing

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Speaker 2: few warning. But at the same time, mobile cameras will

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Speaker 2: continue to operate anywhere at any time, and motors are

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Speaker 2: required to keep to the law.

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Speaker 1: And these fixed speed cameras they're going to be operated

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Speaker 1: by n ZTA rather than by police.

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Speaker 2: That's right. So the under the last government approved transferring

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Speaker 2: speed cameras away from police to n z That work

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Speaker 2: is now underway. They will now be operating it. They've

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Speaker 2: got a new tech back office that are setting up

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Speaker 2: to enable it. There's also new average speed camera checks

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Speaker 2: that are also being installed in different parts of the country.

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Speaker 2: That's about, rather than a spot check, checking your speed

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Speaker 2: over a period of time. You'll see that in other

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Speaker 2: countries such as Australia, So rather than just being what

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Speaker 2: your particular speed limit might be at that particular location,

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Speaker 2: it'll be actually looking at your average speed over a

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Speaker 2: particular length of a row as well. So that's about

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Speaker 2: a different way of ensuring people are keeping to the

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Speaker 2: speed limit, rather than just paying them for what speed

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Speaker 2: limit they were got speed they were going at a

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Speaker 2: particular point.

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Speaker 1: Do they have that in the Waterview Tunnel at the moment?

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Speaker 2: No, they don't.

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Speaker 1: Okay, no, I thought. I've had a friend who got

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Speaker 1: a couple of nasty surprises in the mail while driving

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Speaker 1: my car, I might add going through the Waterview tunnel.

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Speaker 1: So it's always good to go to the expert on

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Speaker 1: this front. Have you ever had a speeding ticket, Minister, No,

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Speaker 1: I haven't. I'm not surprise by the Thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for your time, that is Transport Minister Simeon Brown.

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