hoping this catches on, pretty please CA…
i like the fact that the money can only go into maintaining the speed cameras or into making the road safer. those are both things desperately needed, especially in LA.
hoping this catches on, pretty please CA…
i like the fact that the money can only go into maintaining the speed cameras or into making the road safer. those are both things desperately needed, especially in LA.
We implemented speed cameras in my province in Canada 20 years ago, and the government that implemented them got thrown out because the opposition party offered to get rid of them.
People REALLY hate them. Worse than anything else I’ve ever seen people hate.
People wanna be able to drive like assholes.
Governments want to set speed limits to be arbitrarily low, more like
i have good news because its not set at the speed limit but 11 over, so you only get the ticket for recklessly speeding. maybe the speed limits get lowered so people arent driving 55 next to sidewalks. is that really such a big deal?
@snowbell
The real issue is all the US roads are designed to be safe 20 mph faster than what the posted speed is. So people drive the speed they feel is safe. Lowering speed limits does nothing. What needs to happen is road redesign. Make the lanes narrower. Plant trees right next to the road. Have more curves and complexities.
I can’t really say I’ve ever seen that happening, but I don’t live in LA. Where I live the limits are all between 20 and 30. 55 is pretty crazy.
These sorts of devices give the government a perverse incentive to set speed limits unreasonably low—50 on a freeway, for example—in order to generate revenue through what amounts to highway robbery.
You are fortunate to live in a jurisdiction where the government is not so crooked, but realize that many jurisdictions are not like yours.