00:01After months of bad PR, the government's keen to talk up the benefits of its AI traffic cameras.
00:08These laws and these new safety cameras are working.
00:12Massive change behaviour, massive reduction in offending and lives saved.
00:19The government says eight cameras across the state have captured 184,000 infringements
00:25since they started issuing fines last year.
00:27In that time, it says the number of infringements issued has halved,
00:31with an average of 412 incurred each day in November to 208 a day last month.
00:38Even still, infringements from the cameras are expected to contribute an additional $440 million
00:43to the Road Trauma Trust account over the next four years.
00:48It's a special account of government that reinvests every dollar and every cent back into road safety initiatives.
00:56The Treasurer visiting Main Road's Operations Centre to announce this year's budget
01:00will include an extra $340 million on measures to reduce the road toll,
01:05including $41 million to improve a section of the Great Northern Highway
01:10and $9 million for pedestrian and cycle paths near schools.
01:14What this is doing is trying to encourage more kids to walk to school,
01:18to cycle to school, but make it safer as well.
01:21The opposition says it's critical the windfall is spent to address high-risk groups.
01:26I don't see any announcements here today that are dealing with middle-aged people,
01:31that are dealing with men or are dealing with regional people.
01:34While Main Road staff are in here monitoring traffic over the long weekend,
01:38police say they'll be out on the roads in force with double demerits in place until Monday evening.
01:44Our officers have been pre-deployed across the state currently,
01:48so they are in locations already where the community may have felt the presence of road policing enforcement.
01:54So far this year, 58 West Australians have lost their lives on the road.
Comments