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.
It’s a little insane to me how speeding is handled.
If it’s a serious law, it should be uniformly enforced. None of this “cops pull over some people” nonsense that opens the door to harassment and quotas.
Furthermore, fines need to scale with wealth.
“If it’s a serious law, it should be uniformly enforced. None of this “cops pull over some people” nonsense that opens the door to harassment and quotas.”
I agree, but I disagree with speed limits all together, or better put not also deciding whether the speeders are good enough at those speeds to be safe!
“Furthermore, fines need to scale with wealth.”
I love that when I heard that a EU country is already doing this.