$330,000 Judder bars according to Luxon..

[king1]

Except, some of those innocent are the ones paying with their lives for the speeding, or permanent injuries -and the hospital system or ACC pays for the ongoing care...

yes not fair...  

Judder bars are a prevention measure - ticketing the guilty is the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff...

When some form of judder bar is genuinely needed for safety, fine. But the vast majority are there to make people travelling legally at 50kph go slower, or to discourage people from using a road that might be the most practical and direct route to their destination. Ticketing people is also a prevention measure. It gives them a consequence of their actions, something that seems to no longer be part of our social expectations.

If ticketing was a prevention measure the roads would have been safe a long time ago, and no-one would be speeding anymore - besides if they made greater use of fines then without doubt a certain segment of society would start complaining about the excessive use of fines and relentless profiteering to fill government coffers...

But yes imho the rest of us should be forced to be inconvenienced a tiny wee bit by judder bars if it means that roads are safer and one less person dies - I have no issue with that at all...