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Waka Kotahi expects new speed cameras to triple number of tickets

07:25 am on 18 August 2022

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The Transport Agency expects new speed cameras to triple the number of drivers caught, from one million to three million offences a year.

It could have ramped things up still further but has pulled back from what it calls the "saturation" of roads in a "big bang" option.

That is despite calculating this extreme approach would save hundreds more lives than the option now at hand - which it is already testing.

Phil Pennington has been looking into this.