Certainly there is a chicken vs egg financial challenge, but when antagonizing drivers ends public support, and they’re banned (as in TFA), now there’s no road safety improvements.
People want to deny it, but the cameras themselves were a safety improvement. They reduced speed. Maybe not for every single car but certainly enough to make a statistical difference. The cameras my areas used were mobile and the speed reduction would linger for weeks to months after the camera had moved.
Certainly there is a chicken vs egg financial challenge, but when antagonizing drivers ends public support, and they’re banned (as in TFA), now there’s no road safety improvements.
People want to deny it, but the cameras themselves were a safety improvement. They reduced speed. Maybe not for every single car but certainly enough to make a statistical difference. The cameras my areas used were mobile and the speed reduction would linger for weeks to months after the camera had moved.