Speed camera ‘hot spots’ around town
TOOWOOMBA drivers with lead feet beware - there are more than 60 places you can be nabbed for speeding in the Garden City.
It is almost guaranteed if you are a motorist in Toowoomba you will drive down one of these streets daily.
Within the Queensland Government’s Open Data Initiative, the Queensland Police Service has a list of speed camera sites used for mobile speed cameras.
Some are on streets you would expect, such as James, Ruthven and Margaret Sts, but others are on rural and suburban roads.
These mobile speed camera sites have been approved according to strict selection criteria. The sites are available for portable devices, covert and marked mobile speed camera operations.
Traffic crash history is the primary criteria used to identify sites.
Other reasons for the establishment of a mobile speed camera site may include a verified high risk speeding behaviour or roadwork sites where workers are at risk.
Sites may be parked from camera operations from time to time due to impacts upon those mobile speed camera sites including roadworks and revised speed limits.
In some cases, there may be a number of mobile speed camera sites along the same road within the same locality.
There are 58 mobile speed camera sites and eight fixed speed cameras.
The fixed speed camera locations are:
Bridge St at the intersection with Holberton St, Newtown
Bridge St at the intersection with McDougall St, Wilsonton (there are two separate cameras at different locations of the intersection)
James St at the intersection with Kitchener St, Rangeville
James St at the intersection with Mackenzie St, Rangeville
James St at the intersection with Neil St, South Toowoomba
James St at the intersection with Pechey St, South Toowoomba
Tor St at the intersection with Hursley Rd, Newtown