RAPID - Is it generating money?

Grail said :

More police out driving RAPID cars means more visible police on the roads. That’s a good thing, regardless of revenue.

Including expectations of RAPID and Speed Camera revenue in the budget? That’s a different thing entirely. The Government should be working to reduce infringement revenue to 0, not betting the bank on people breaking the law.

Agree we need more police cars with or without rapid. Not speed cameras that ping you for doing 89 in an 80 zone. Yes its speeding but i doubt many people change their habits because of this.

I think safety cameras that record everything at a set of lights would be the way to go. If someone sees a bad driver, they report it online, someone checks the video footage, if its conclusive, they get a fine. I say this because I had someone turn right from the lane designated as straight ahead and overtake me that way, because they didn’t want to queue behind the other cars turning right!

Or at roundabouts where people enter because they think they can without giving way as you are in a different lane. Focus on making people drive better and you’ll find that people will speed less. you’ll never stop those who don’t give a rats arse though.

More police out driving RAPID cars means more visible police on the roads. That’s a good thing, regardless of revenue.

Including expectations of RAPID and Speed Camera revenue in the budget? That’s a different thing entirely. The Government should be working to reduce infringement revenue to 0, not betting the bank on people breaking the law.

Even without the internet, there’s nothing stopping you from putting a discrete sticker on your gauges with the date of your rego expiry. You only need to do it once for each car as well as the date should stay the same every year if you do 12 months worth.

You can do it without the paperwork really easily.

They have the rego checker:
https://rego.act.gov.au/regosoa/public/findRegoByPlate.jsf

Which has the vin/chassis number on it which is all you need to do rego and it updates straight away.

Gazket, as you have internet access to post here you do know that you can pay bills online too right? Or over the phone?

With no rego labels anymore you just make your payment before or on the day it’s due (no need to pay days in advance to wait for a label to be posted out) and your rego record is immediately updated, including the link to RAPID.

You’re welcome.

Your theory seems highly illogical.

I am pretty good at keeping track of when my registration is due, but not very trusting of others. If I am going to drive another person’s car I check the relevant website for currency before moving. Having seen more than once the wicked situation a person injured by an unregistered/uninsured driver is placed in, I have no sympathy for anyone caught.

“coupled with not reminding people when they get into a car that their rego is due this month….. “

you do get posted a rego reminder

Reprobate said :

Can’t go along with the conspiracy theory sorry – if say for example 100 people don’t pay their rego and one quarter of them are picked up by RAPID or the P2P cameras, the gov’t misses out on much more money (100 x $1,000 annual rego fees = $100,000 revenue, 25 x $500 driving unrego’d + 25 annual regos @ $1,000 ea = $32,500). So you’d need 80% or more of unrego’d cars to be picked up (unlikely) before the conspiracy becomes profitable.

I’m a strong advocate against speed cameras (ineffective for road safety, what benefit is there in getting an invoice 2 weeks after an event – speeding – that allegedly could kill you on the spot) but fully support visible policing including RAPID (immediate cause and effect, checking for other road safety factors like alcohol/drug screening & roadworthiness, targets drivers without compulsaory 3rd party insurance that is vital).

driving unregistered fine is around $800 for no rego and $800 for uninsured. So the gov make money they don’t loose money. How much is a rego sticker worth anyway $3 , I doubt the gov save any meaningful amount of money at all by not supplying labels.

It certainly hasn’t made the line at the rego office move any quicker. Making the line to rego your car more efficient would saved more money.

I’m at the desk in under 5 minutes to rego the car, here’s my rego number , how much rego I want , here’s my key card , take the papers thankyou, see ya.

A lot of morons are there for 20 minutes or more.

My inner cynic says the people that complain about this are the ones who have gotten fines before in their lives. Because yeah, I don’t know anyone who hasn’t gotten fines before that has an issue with this.
Dear OP, in the interests of full disclosure, have you ever gotten any driving / car related fines before? If so, how many and what for?
I’ll happily tell you I’ve never had a fine for anything in my life.

Reprobate said :

PS you can also sign up for email rego reminders and SMS alerts for expired regos here: https://rego.act.gov.au/regosoa/public/maintainContactDetails.jsf

Thanks for that link.