Revenue Raising

[SB076]

I know this topic has been bought up previously but never to this extent (I beleive)

I was driving down thompsons rd (between dandenong hastings and frankston dandenong) which I admit is clearly posted as 40Km zone due to construction work. However I was driving 5.30 pm Saturday afternoon (obviously no construction taking place) and was flashed several times by cars coming the other way so I obeyed the speed limit and sat on 40Km and up ahead was a police car parked in with other cars with two officers frantically trying to write tickets. As I approached it was funny to see an officer notice me, and run around the police cruiser to grab the radar gun and radar me (I have never seen an officer move so fast, he probably broke the speed limit himself) Now thankfully I was doing 40 so I didn't get pulled over. I did however feel sorry for all the other drivers who had been pulled over especially considering they could have been pulled over for doing no more than 43Km. With the amount of cars they had pulled over I would suggest they would have had almost 100% success rate at booking every driver travelling along that road (for those who don't know its a straight road speed limit is usually 90Km)

Now I am all for slowing down when contruction workers are in danger, however when work obviously isnt taking place why is everyone forced to do 40Km and why would any self respecting police office take advantage of the situation? Any officers on the forum please feel free to tell me as I was appalled and beleive its only going to lead to an us vs them mentality and no one is going to win expect the state government (extra revenue)

If anyone has an opinion different from mine then please share it as I can't see any logic to it and its certainly doing nothing for the road toll.