Speedsters getting a free pass in Johannesburg and Pretoria - report

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Some of us have been having a free pass for the last 30 years, like e-tolls and SABC licenses just the sunshine muppets are still paying their traffic fines.

Apart from the occasional instant fine where you sign an admission of guilt that can have legal repercussions I haven't had a single issue. No knocking on doors, being locked up during road blocks, licenses withheld or any single issue since the end of the 90's when a black taxi owner laughed at my concern over fines & I decided to join and live out my voted-for-equality.

Now this news amidst new threats of R2D2 this and that, pffft TIA! come at me when you ready bro..
 
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r00igev@@r said:
In the old days when we still had electricity they would just hop out from behind a bush to stop you.
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TMPD is doing physical trapping, saw in twice in the past 2 weeks. So does this mean we still have electricity?
 
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Herr der Verboten said:
So you're saying that during the Apartheid days we had electricity and that the traffic police were more vigorous? Kinda helps if you're only looking after 10% of africa having the rest in the closet?
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Are you saying we only had electricity during apartheid? I didn't say that.

I'm say that loadshedding stuffs up digital systems. Eish. No powers of deduction.
 
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Johannesburg and Tshwane are currently the only municipalities in which the new driving infringement system known as the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act is already in effect.
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Maybe this is part of the problem. Under Aarto the money from the fines goes to the government, while the metros bear the cost of enforcement. In other words it will be a cost for them rather than income.

Don't know if the rollout has progressed to the point that the money is going in the correct direction yet.
 
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Love the pic of the traffic cop, all he needs now is a snor............lol
 
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Herr der Verboten said:
So you're saying that during the Apartheid days we had electricity and that the traffic police were more vigorous? Kinda helps if you're only looking after 10% of africa having the rest in the closet?
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Actually the police during the old days probably looked at the 90% more vigorously
 
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garyc said:
Maybe this is part of the problem. Under Aarto the money from the fines goes to the government, while the metros bear the cost of enforcement. In other words it will be a cost for them rather than income.

Don't know if the rollout has progressed to the point that the money is going in the correct direction yet.
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This is the most likely explanation. It's all about the money. If municipalities can't make money from speed traps, they're not going to do it. And those speed cameras don't come cheap.
 
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That is according to two firms who administer traffic fines for over 500 companies with vehicle fleets active throughout Gauteng.
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I suppose these two companies is losing out on revenue. Not sure if they charge vehicle fleets per fine but I would guess this has cause them to take a knock.
 
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