The number of Victorians issued with speeding fines from mobile cameras almost doubled in the past year, data obtained by The Age reveals.

More than a million infringement notices from mobile cameras were issued from January to November this year, compared with 613,315 in 2020.

It comes after new T-Series mobile cameras were introduced, and their operating hours were increased by 75 per cent.

Shadow minister for police, Brad Battin, says traffic cameras play an important role in road safety, but he has some concerns about their use.

“We keep addressing the wrong issues, and that’s about revenue raising rather than addressing the actual issue of road safety,” he told Shane McInnes, filling in for Neil Mitchell.

‘We’re concerned when you talk about the traffic cameras and the amount of fines that have happened over the last couple of years, particularly with less cars on the road.

“We totally understand they save lives in the right locations and the right places, but when the government starts putting them in places, and Victoria Police starts putting them in places that people know is not a high danger area for accidents or a high danger area for fatalities then they start to think ‘Well, why are they here?’.”

Mr Batten says education is “the bit that we’re missing here in Victoria”.

Victoria has recorded 235 deaths on the roads so far this year, compared to 211 last year.

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