I was waved at by a friendly man in a blue uniform, about 1300 hrs yesterday.
Turned out he wanted me to blow into a hand-held gizmo with a white tube attached (say nothing, Wal, nothing!)
I have NO problem at all being asked for a breath test, except it's a pain removing gloves, sunnies, helmet etc, but such is the small inconvenience we put up with, for a genuine means of helping to reduce the road toll.
He did wish me a safe day afterwards. Amazing. Have our traffic cops been given some coaching in PR??
Found it interesting to overhear the two Mr Plods discussing the driver of the white van ahead of me......he had tested at 0.043!
"No wonder he didn't want to stop....he knew he was pretty close" one of them said, shaking his head.
Caught up with the van at the next lights......driver was laughing with his passenger, and took off at excessive speed, lane-changing dangerously.
Would not argue if Anna wanted to give Plod more breath testers, instead of hand held speed guns.
As to fixed speed cameras.....placed sensibly, they perhaps do have a traffic-calming effect (for all of a couple of hundred metres), but placed poorly, surely they are a menace to safety.
I've stood on a Kangaroo Point balcony, overlooking the bridge approach, and watched all the sudden braking manoeuvres when people realise they are about to get their picture taken.
NOT a good thing, surely, when merging lanes of traffic are happening right at the same place!
Still on fixed cameras......own up you Toowoomba-ites! Who disabled the new camera on the up-side of the range road, after only about a week?
Some enterprising person unbolted it and severed the wires! HA!
Oops, I mean to say, what an anti-social, illegal and naughty thing to do! Cannot condone such behaviour.
I believe it was to be re-instated this weekend.
