cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53463866
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53463841
Before the cameras were installed four years ago, roughly 17 per cent of motorists followed the posted speed limits. … In the last year before the cameras were banned, compliance reached 87 per cent.
Within a week of the cameras’ removal, that fell to 62 per cent, and three weeks later, it had dropped to 50 per cent.
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Carlucci says it’s time for drivers to reflect and consider one simple question.
“Why are you speeding in a school zone?”
Eliminating speed cameras is tacit approval of speeding.
You do that, and people will complain about the traffic.
The best way to reduce car crashes is to build public transit infrastructure.
But that’s about as likely as repaving all the roads to force drivers to slow down.
People complain about traffic anyway.
Besides traffic calming doesn’t proclude transit, cycling, and pedestrian infrastructure, in fact they go hand in hand often.