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Dylan Thomsen: AA Road Safety Spokesperson on the rolling out of more speed camera signs · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Road safety warning signs for fixed speed cameras are set
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  Speaker 2: to be rolled out across the country. The government hopes
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  Speaker 2: the move will allow key we's the opportunity to check
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  Speaker 2: their speeds in high crash areas to avoid tickets and accidents.
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  Speaker 2: The rollout will take place as NZTA takes over managing
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  Speaker 2: speed cameras from police. The warning signs are already going
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  Speaker 2: up and the AA Road Safety spokesperson Dylan Thompson is
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  Speaker 2: with me now, Dylan, good morning. Do these signs work?
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  Speaker 1: Do we?
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  Speaker 2: Presumably they do. We slow down when we see them.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Ryan. We expect to see a big reduction
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  Speaker 1: in tickets at these sites when the signs are rolled out,
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  Speaker 1: which means obviously that we have less people exceeding the
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  Speaker 1: speed limit at those high risk locations. So in our view,
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  Speaker 1: this is a really good thing and has been a
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  Speaker 1: long time coming. We're really pleased to see these signs
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  Speaker 1: finally happening.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but that's assuming that all of the cameras are
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  Speaker 2: in high risk locations. And it used to bug me
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  Speaker 2: going to Wellington driving down not on a gorge and
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  Speaker 2: you know you're going downhill, so everyone speeds a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But is it a high crash area? Are the cameras
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  Speaker 2: in high crash areas they go.
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  Speaker 1: Through a process to establish where the cameras are going
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  Speaker 1: to go, and in the past has been involved with that,
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  Speaker 1: So they definitely have looked to find either locations with
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  Speaker 1: a history of crashes involving speed or areas where there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people traveling above the speed limit. No
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  Speaker 1: longer Gorge, I know it very well. I think one
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  Speaker 1: of the things people forget there is at more peak times,
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  Speaker 1: especially when you're coming downhill, there can be tailbacks of
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  Speaker 1: traffic that come and and if you're going down there
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  Speaker 1: faster than eighty and it's a bit weirt or something
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  Speaker 1: like that, and you come around the bend and suddenly
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  Speaker 1: a line of cars stopped in front of you, there
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  Speaker 1: is a lot of risk there. But hopefully the signs
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  Speaker 1: when they go up are going to help people going
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  Speaker 1: down now ato on a Gorge to remind them that
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  Speaker 1: there's a camera there, check their speed, slow down, get
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the.
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  Speaker 2: Risk doesn't how far are the cameras from the signs?
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  Speaker 2: In other words, how long do you have to slow down?
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  Speaker 2: If you are not that I'm saying you should speed
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  Speaker 2: or that people do.
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  Speaker 1: But it's going to vary a little bit depending on
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  Speaker 1: the environment, you know, so they'll have to adjust the
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  Speaker 1: signs depending on roads and intersections and what's around. But
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  Speaker 1: we're probably looking somewhere around two hundred meters either side
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  Speaker 1: as a ballpark figure. And I think just one other
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  Speaker 1: thing that's really im one of those because I hear
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  Speaker 1: people talk about our trys will just drive above the
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  Speaker 1: speed limits or they see one of these signs, they're
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  Speaker 1: not slow down and then speed up again. There is
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  Speaker 1: definitely a certain group of people who just try to
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  Speaker 1: drive as fast as they can above the speed limit.
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  Speaker 1: I would say those drivers already have a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: idea where the cameras are. What these signs are going
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  Speaker 1: to help us. The large bulk of people who aren't
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  Speaker 1: trying to the speed limit, they're good drivers, they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to follow the rules. Maybe they're just a bit distracted,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they just have let their speed creep up. And
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  Speaker 1: it gives those people chance to just a little financial
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  Speaker 1: incenter reminder to take a look oh this camp by
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  Speaker 1: coming up, check the speed, slowly down if you need to.
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  Speaker 2: Dylan Thompson, thanks so much for your time. The AA
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  Speaker 2: road safety spokesperson on the rollout of signs warning us
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  Speaker 2: of speed cameras.
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