The one day I skied at Thredbo in 1997 I got a ticket driving up there from Jindabyne.
We have a lot of long distance driving in sparsely populated areas, but Australia has perhaps even more. We did not get any tickets in 2019 in the Red Centre or Top End driving though. Perhaps the cameras are not used so much out there. It's hard to imagine that we weren't driving very fast between Uluru and King's Canyon. We probably weren't driving all that fast in Kakadu as there was a lot of interesting scenery and occasional wildlife.
Americans are quite resistant to camera traffic enforcement. We had red light cameras for a few years in L.A. County, and there was so much ignoring and resistance. Eventually some court ruled they were not enforceable because of identifying the license plate as opposed to the driver.
Aussies are considerably more likely to give the government the benefit of the doubt on regulations, as evidenced by the pandemic lockdowns. You can argue that some of the American distrust comes from stupidity of some of the regulations. A national 55mph speed limit was imposed (via threat of cutting off federal highway funds to the states) during the 1973 energy crisis and it was not removed until after the Republicans won Congress in 1994.
I think the following expresses the sentiment of many if not most American skiers.
Yes, especially skiers!
We have a lot of long distance driving in sparsely populated areas, but Australia has perhaps even more. We did not get any tickets in 2019 in the Red Centre or Top End driving though. Perhaps the cameras are not used so much out there. It's hard to imagine that we weren't driving very fast between Uluru and King's Canyon. We probably weren't driving all that fast in Kakadu as there was a lot of interesting scenery and occasional wildlife.Americans are quite resistant to camera traffic enforcement. We had red light cameras for a few years in L.A. County, and there was so much ignoring and resistance. Eventually some court ruled they were not enforceable because of identifying the license plate as opposed to the driver.
Aussies are considerably more likely to give the government the benefit of the doubt on regulations, as evidenced by the pandemic lockdowns. You can argue that some of the American distrust comes from stupidity of some of the regulations. A national 55mph speed limit was imposed (via threat of cutting off federal highway funds to the states) during the 1973 energy crisis and it was not removed until after the Republicans won Congress in 1994.
I think the following expresses the sentiment of many if not most American skiers.
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It was good timing as many contractors had a slight lull in demand due to many homeowners wanting to isolate at the beginning of the pandemic. We were able to schedule them fairly quickly to began working later in 2020 on our son's house to finish off a partially finished basement by adding an in-law suite including a new bathroom, kitchenette, and second laundry.
