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.
That’s because driving the speed limit on those roads feels downright painful and the speed cameras were just a bandaid solution to begin with. You want people to slow down? Change the road design so it doesn’t feel like driving on a highway. Narrow it down and make it windy. People will naturally slow down and will feel comfortable doing it too.