Highway through here is an arterial road from the major population centre in the country, into the rest of the state. Lots of stuff and people move every day.
This morning, tooling along the highway on the way to work, I come across some roadwoks, and are forced to slow from 100km/h limit, to 60, to 40, two lanes into 1...cops heavily patrolling the opposite side of the road to the roadworks (using radar), as is often their bent when there's a long stretch of road works.
Middle of the "roadworks" is a stationary backhoe between 4 cones.
After the backhoe, while you are still in the 40km/hr restricted fast lane, you see a line of police between the two lanes, and a guy with a sign flagging vehicles into the previously blocked off slow lane, where a line of Police wait for a line of cars (6 being tested, 6 in queue, any surplus allowed to pass in the fast lane)
RBT, free safety inspection (tyres only), licence check, and allowed to drive off. Truckies get a log book search, and cheek swab as well.
Aside from he inconvenience, I was a bit amazed at the whole roadworks stage show.
To which a workmate explained later on this evening...they aren't allowed to place an RBT station on a 100km/hr road (they can pull you over on suspicion, or test when pulled over on another infringement...but when the speed limit is reduced because of "roadworks", it's no longer a 100km/hr stretch of road.
Thus the antics.
Years ago, when they put in mobile speed cameras, I thought it was rich that the legislated sign at least 100m from the speed trap was being put 100m after the camera car...this is a pearler.
This morning, tooling along the highway on the way to work, I come across some roadwoks, and are forced to slow from 100km/h limit, to 60, to 40, two lanes into 1...cops heavily patrolling the opposite side of the road to the roadworks (using radar), as is often their bent when there's a long stretch of road works.
Middle of the "roadworks" is a stationary backhoe between 4 cones.
After the backhoe, while you are still in the 40km/hr restricted fast lane, you see a line of police between the two lanes, and a guy with a sign flagging vehicles into the previously blocked off slow lane, where a line of Police wait for a line of cars (6 being tested, 6 in queue, any surplus allowed to pass in the fast lane)
RBT, free safety inspection (tyres only), licence check, and allowed to drive off. Truckies get a log book search, and cheek swab as well.
Aside from he inconvenience, I was a bit amazed at the whole roadworks stage show.
To which a workmate explained later on this evening...they aren't allowed to place an RBT station on a 100km/hr road (they can pull you over on suspicion, or test when pulled over on another infringement...but when the speed limit is reduced because of "roadworks", it's no longer a 100km/hr stretch of road.
Thus the antics.
Years ago, when they put in mobile speed cameras, I thought it was rich that the legislated sign at least 100m from the speed trap was being put 100m after the camera car...this is a pearler.
