Latrobe City councillor Doug Caulfield has expressed concern about the financial impost on ratepayers who ultimately pay for the maintenance of traffic calming devices used to slow down vehicles in residential streets.

He believes the broader hooning issue needs to be addressed and has called on the public to dob in dangerous drivers.

``It would seem every second council meeting is dealing with traffic calming devices being installed,'' Cr Caulfield said.

``They cost a fair amount of money... inevitably it will be the ratepayers that will have to pay for them being maintained.''

Moe's May Street is the latest to win council approval for the installation of speed control devices.

Drivers have been clocked over the 50km/h speed limit and as much as 15km/h in some cases.

Cr Caulfield said even where the installation of traffic calming devices was compulsory, such as in a new residential development, the ongoing costs would have to be paid for by residents.

``It is cost shifting this issue rather then addressing it at the core, which is driver behaviour,'' he said.

Cr Caulfield said Victoria's hoon legislation should be used to full effect in problem neighbourhoods.

``When residents raise these matters of concern what we should be doing is providing information on the hoon legislation and what their rights are,'' Cr Caulfield said.

``The State Government has given an instrument (hoon legislation) to use to try and influence driver behaviour.

``I am not in any way trying to detract from the concerns of residents (of May Street), but it's a cultural issue right across the state that we have to try and address.

``All you do when you put a traffic calming device in a street is send them to the adjoining street to continue doing what they're doing,'' he said.

Cr Caulfield believes hoon drivers generally live near the streets on which they speed.

``If you look at some of the maps where traffic calming devices are being installed, they're thoroughfares, not through roads,'' Cr Caulfield said.

Cr Lisa Price said she did not believe council could put speed humps in every street in Moe.

``Most of them are dead end streets, so I don't understand why there are hoons going down them,'' Cr Price said.

``I think with the State Government hoon legislation, the community needs to be vigilant in dobbing in a hoon and reporting that.''

Moe Police senior sergeant Chris Pegg warned people that 15km/h over the speed limit was a ``high risk'' scenario.

``You see the advertisements on television showing the difference 5km/h can make to stopping distance,'' he said.