Email gives snapshot of speed camera locations

By Shaun Inguanzo
AN EMAIL arriving in inboxes across the state is detailing the locations of speed cameras along the EastLink tollway.
And neither ConnectEast, Victoria Police, or the Department of Justice have denied the locations listed in the email.
Star this week received the email from three unrelated sources and contacted authorities to determine if the details were correct.
The email is not signed by anyone but appears to be written by a person with working knowledge of the tollway, perhaps a construction worker.
According to the email, fixed speed cameras will be located in three separate locations along EastLink, including::
• Beneath the Wellington Road overpass of EastLink, in Rowville.
• Beneath the Greens Road overpass of Eastlink, in Dandenong, and
• Adjustable, slide-rail cameras in the tunnels between Springvale Road and the Ringwood Bypass, at the tollway’s northern end.
A report in a metropolitan newspaper earlier this year also suggested speed cameras would be located beneath the Dandenong Bypass overpass of EastLink.
Tollway operator ConnectEast did not comment on the email and said speed cameras were the responsibility of the Department of Justice.
Department spokesman Haydn Lane said the camera locations were public knowledge and were canvassed in a Victoria Police press release dated 1 February.
But the email, circulating to inboxes around the state and appearing on Australian motoring websites, is more specific than the information presented to Star by Victoria Police.
To read the contents of the email if you haven’t received it, simply type the term ‘EastLink speed cameras’ into an Internet search engine.