NEW red-light and speed cameras will be installed at 10 intersections across Adelaide in a State Government push to expand the city-wide network.
The Advertiser can today reveal the locations of the new cameras, first committed to in the 2008-09 Budget.
The Government then announced five new cameras a year would be installed over the four-year period to 2011-12.
The 10 new locations are for the cameras scheduled to have been installed last year and this financial year.
Five will be installed at major intersections in the northern suburbs, including Elizabeth, Salisbury Downs and Salisbury East.
The cameras are at varying stages of construction but none are currently operational.
The Transport Department expects they will all be switched on by mid next year.
RAA mobility and safety manager Wendy Bevan said her organisation supported the installation of cameras at intersections if they were targeted to improve safety.
"We don't have any issue with any of these new locations," she said. "Provided the locations are based on where the highest level of incidents occurred, so they have the biggest benefits for road safety.
"We're talking about cameras that catch people entering intersections when the light is red, or speeding through intersections.
"Both of those things are against the law and within drivers' ability to control.
"If they don't break the law they won't be caught by the cameras and won't be fined."
A Transport Department spokeswoman said the location of fixed red-light/speed cameras was determined by intersection crash statistics and "site geometry, road alignment and the presence of obstructions".
Once the cameras are installed, they will be handed over to police for testing and calibration before becoming operational.
There are no plans or approved funding for the installation of further permanently mounted "speed-only" cameras.
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