Everything in America is run by private corps that will fudge shit to generate revenue. That’s the only problem I have with red light cameras and speed cameras. Red light camera contractors have been documented shortening yellow lights to purposely make people run them to generate revenue.
In my city, they added Red Light cameras. Then they found that they were setting the cameras to catch a little before the yellow light ended, boosting their revenues by millions.
Then they added speed cameras to school zones. Then the found out they conveniently placed them outside the official school zones, again boosting revenues by millions.
Maybe you can trust the management of them in Australia, but in America, they WILL cheat, and even if they get caught, nothing will be done about it, because they’re stealing MONEY from the Citizens, and that’s always okay.
Do your police exist to harvest revenue from the population in order to support their budgets, or do you have a logical, reasonable method of funding law enforcement?
Yeah, I see this and wish they’d put one in front of my kids’ school. Every road in my town is 25mph, every single one. We have those digital signs in a couple places in town that read exactly that. People still do 40 in front of the school, where kids walk. We are a town where a good chunk of people walk to school, I walk my kids, and people still fly around. Leaving earlier is never an option, need to speed everywhere to make up 30 seconds.
They have one of those signs that tells you how fast you’re going, though. So effective.
I wish they’d put them in front of my local elementary school, despite my kids grew past that and despite people not speeding. The problem is the fence is mangled, in a bunch of spots all along the front of the school. Somehow cars are repeatedly jumping the curb, crossing the sidewalk where kids walk to school, then colliding with the fence. wtf
I drive by a school with those signs on my way to work. I slow down because, obviously, kids. The cars behind me get enraged that I’m not going 40 and then they pull into the school and drop off their kids.
We have speed cameras everywhere in Australia. No idea what the Issue is honestly. Don’t speed like a dickhead and you’ll be fine
Everything in America is run by private corps that will fudge shit to generate revenue. That’s the only problem I have with red light cameras and speed cameras. Red light camera contractors have been documented shortening yellow lights to purposely make people run them to generate revenue.
In my city, they added Red Light cameras. Then they found that they were setting the cameras to catch a little before the yellow light ended, boosting their revenues by millions.
Then they added speed cameras to school zones. Then the found out they conveniently placed them outside the official school zones, again boosting revenues by millions.
Maybe you can trust the management of them in Australia, but in America, they WILL cheat, and even if they get caught, nothing will be done about it, because they’re stealing MONEY from the Citizens, and that’s always okay.
A lot of places also like to shorten the time that the light is yellow which conveniently boosts profits.
Do your police exist to harvest revenue from the population in order to support their budgets, or do you have a logical, reasonable method of funding law enforcement?
The first one
This violates the principle that crime shouldn’t pay.
I interpret this to apply to everyone. No one should be profiting from criminal activity.
We have both…
The cameras aren’t a big deal here. The good thing is that it lets our police focus on other things
Also, they’re calibrated anyway, and we get 4kmh (minimum) leeway
Actually easier than getting pulled over by a cop
Actually, I’ll clarify. Our local sovcit idiots complain. The rest of us just don’t speed
They should just take your license away for a day.
There has to be SOME incentive to not speed…
That would disproportionally affect the working poor.
So come up with some incentive to get people to drive like normal caring humans.
So, make it like Europe and then driving is just needed as supplemental rather than required? I think the car lobby is not okay with that.
Yeah, I see this and wish they’d put one in front of my kids’ school. Every road in my town is 25mph, every single one. We have those digital signs in a couple places in town that read exactly that. People still do 40 in front of the school, where kids walk. We are a town where a good chunk of people walk to school, I walk my kids, and people still fly around. Leaving earlier is never an option, need to speed everywhere to make up 30 seconds.
They have one of those signs that tells you how fast you’re going, though. So effective.
I wish they’d put them in front of my local elementary school, despite my kids grew past that and despite people not speeding. The problem is the fence is mangled, in a bunch of spots all along the front of the school. Somehow cars are repeatedly jumping the curb, crossing the sidewalk where kids walk to school, then colliding with the fence. wtf
I drive by a school with those signs on my way to work. I slow down because, obviously, kids. The cars behind me get enraged that I’m not going 40 and then they pull into the school and drop off their kids.