Interesting stuff...

Check out the PigSpotter on twitter, some really interesting stuff there....

Motorists and speedtraps

Heya,
 
been a long time. I guess this time I just want to hear your views, what's your take on the public setting up a site/blog to warn each other of traffic/speed traps? Do you think this is fine? There is one particular gentleman, Pig-Spotter on twitter and he reports each and every incident around Gauteng, well I guess now that the police are hot on his trail little leaves to be desired as to whether this is Illegal.
 

 
Personally, what is the point of traffic cameras catching you on camera and having you pay those fines if in the first place it does make you re-calculate your actions at that point in time. I prefer the olden days when a traffic officer would stop a motorist travelling at high speed versus a camera taking your registration number, a fine processed and then one only has to pay that. I see no enforcement in that, prevention is still better than cure.
 

 
Let's fast track this one, say for example an individual sees that ahead of them is a speed enforcing camera, immediately that person will reduce their speed, and that is the whole point, to regulate driving at a certain speed, well, right now what happens is one would just continue at whatever ridiculous speed and come month end a ticket/fine will be in the post only for the individual to settle it. So at which point was enforcement regulated? Maybe that's why we are seeing the whole points system coming into play......watching this one closely....
 

 

Let's hear your views.......

New Number Plates

New Number Plate System for Gauteng

The Gauteng government plans to introduce its new licence plate system in December, the month it expects to run out of numbers to allocate under the old system, Transport MEC Bheki Nkosi said on Friday.

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Gauteng is to get new number plates in December

The Gauteng government plans to introduce its new licence plate system in December, the month it expects to run out of numbers to allocate under the old system, Transport MEC Bheki Nkosi said on Friday.

However, the "intelligence" components, which would feature a chip containing information on the vehicle owner, was on hold pending further consultations, he told reporters in Johannesburg.

This was because proposals submitted did not meet standards and specifications. They were worried that there would be one proposal supplied for both the plates and the chip, which could be considered anti-competitive.

"We are still to decide how to insert that aspect and how to roll it out," he said.

The new number plate would be aluminium, sold by approved manufacturers to eradicate illegal duplicates, and would cost around R350 a set.

They would be allocated during new vehicle registrations in the province, and a roll call would be held for old number plates to be replaced.

The new sequence would be two letters of the alphabet, starting with BB, followed by two numbers, another two letters and the "GP" abbreviation for the province.

The current system, which is already on the "ZW" prefix has three letters of the alphabet, followed by three numbers and "GP".

Ultimately, when the roll out is completed, fines will be imposed for motorists who have not done the change over.

According to vehicle registration system eNaTIS, there were 3.78 million "live" vehicles registered in the province, including trailers and caravans. This was 38.87 percent of the total registered in the country -- the highest number of registrations.

There were 23,644 new vehicle registrations in August, 49 percent of the national total.

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