The camera, located on the highway at the southern entrance to the town of Berry, has been one of the big earners in the Shoalhaven.

In the 2013-14 financial year it caught 6468 speeders and raked in $971,833 in fines. The year before it was even more productive, bringing in $1,012,057.

In the current financial year to April 2015, it had already raised $489,367 in fines.

But its removal allows work on the Berry Bypass, as it is located where the new four-lane highway will pass through.

The camera is the third to be removed in the area because of the $580 million bypass.

Other cameras already removed were on the Princes Highway at Foxground and near Tindalls Lane.

While the Tindalls Lane camera had been decommissioned in 2011, only remaining in place for deterrent value, the Foxground camera brought in $12,258.

The Centre for Road Safety has said the Foxground camera may not be reinstated as the traffic flow along that section of road is expected to be lower after the completion of the bypass. It is not known at this stage whether the camera at the end of Berry will also be reinstated.

Kiama MP Gareth Ward was pleased the camera at the southern end of Berry has gone, and not just because it signalled work was progressing on the bypass.

Mr Ward has long had concerns this camera may be more about revenue-raising than road safety.

"Because I was concerned about its revenue raising I'm glad to see it's gone," Mr Ward said. "I don't think that speed cameras should ever be used as revenue raisers. I think they should be used as genuine deterrents for people to speed where there's a history of accidents or injury.

"That was one of those locations where I thought it was a speed trap. Many people would get caught accelerating or decelerating as they came into town."