The number of speeding fines issued from unmarked mobile cameras has increased 1000 per cent in the Southern Riverina so far this financial year.
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More than 1690 speeding fines, costing residents a total of $377,123, have been issued across 10 mobile and one fixed speed camera in the almost 10 months since June 30, 2020.
Revenue NSW data shows last financial year the same cameras issued just 153 speeding infringements worth $34,211.
Since December, the number of fines issued by many mobile speed cameras in the region has increased significantly.
The upward trend coincides with increased movement post COVID restrictions and the NSW government's removal of signs warning motorists of upcoming mobile speed cameras, which occurred in December.
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Drivers travelling southbound on Mate Street, Albury were fined a mammoth $17,856 in March 2021, with 90 infringements detected by the mobile speed camera.
In February, nine speeding drivers were nabbed at the same location, costing them a collective $1635.
Across the 2019-20 financial year, the camera netted just $3416 from 19 infringements.
Just over 70 motorists travelling westbound on Wagga Road, Lavington, were fined a total of $12,307 in February, $5529 in March and $897 in January.
Drivers in Henty were slugged $14,487 from 50 fines in the first three months of 2021, compared to a total of $5368 from 16 fines in the 2019-2020 financial year.
The number and cost of speeding fines detected by traffic travelling northbound on Wagga Road, Lavington, has decreased so far this year with 28 fines worth $4254 issued compared to 35 worth $6344 in 2019-20.
Albury's only fixed speed and red light camera at the intersection of Borella Road and Young Street netted $78,299 from 170 speeding and red light infringements in March, $112,917 from 318 offences in February and $28,450 from 61 offences in January.