New red light speed cameras will be installed at 10 high-risk intersections to reduce the number of crashes in Queensland.
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The cameras will be in place at Mackenzie, Camira, Yamanto, Edens Landing, Warwick, Gympie and Mt Sheridan.
Queensland Police Service Assistant Commissioner Mike Keating said the sites were selected by the QPS and Transport and Main Roads based on the number and severity of speed- and red light-related road crashes.
“The Queensland government is committed to road safety and the reduction of road trauma on our communities,” he said.
Mr Keating said the combined red light speed camera technology would detect motorists who disobeyed the red traffic light and motorists who would speed through the intersection.
“These cameras will assist in reducing travel speeds at high-risk intersections by operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
“We want all road users to be compliant with traffic light signals and also travel at the speed limit through intersections."
RACQ head of technical and safety policy Steve Spalding said the cameras were important tools for road safety.
“We know some motorists complain that these cameras are being used for revenue raising but this is simply not the case," he said.
"Their locations are determined by the crash history or red light running."
New combined red light speed cameras include:
- Mount Gravatt-Capalaba Road, Mackenzie, at intersection with Gateway Motorway;
- Old Logan Road, Camira, at intersection with Alice Street;
- Logan River Road, Edens Landing, at intersection with Castile Crescent;
- Warwick Road, Yamanto, at intersection with Cunningham Highway;
- Cunningham Highway, Warwick, at intersection with Fitzroy Street.
- Bruce Highway, Gympie (Wickham Street), at intersection with Monkland Street; and
- Bruce Highway, Mt Sheridan, at intersection with Coombs Street.
The combined red light speed camera system was also returned to operation at the intersection of Sheridan and Upward Streets in Cairns after roadworks at the location.
Cameras to be introduced before the end of October are:
- Anzac Avenue, Kippa-Ring, at intersection with Boardman Road;
- Glenlyon Street, Gladstone Central, at intersection with Tank Street; and
- Bruce Highway, Rockhampton, at intersection with High Street.
The combined red light speed camera systems will have advisory signs installed before to the intersection.
