• @schmidtster
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    1 year ago

    Our traffic cams in Calgary will do speed on red, so double ticket if speeding through a red and can also just so speed on green too, includes yellow I would imagine.

    Threshold is around 11/km over. Over never heard of one getting one below that, even for photo radar unless in a playground zone.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Speed on Red I can see being a good one. I’ve seen people dump two gears to make the red on MacLeod at Southland (I think; where was tramps comics?).

      Regular red light cams don’t improve safety. But they do drastically increase red light collisions as people are looking at the light too much at exactly the wrong time.

      Speed cameras, help very little but have been shown to be blatant and slimy cash grabs.

      It comes down to cops and roadside tickets. Now that Farnworth is forcing half-trainable (not my assessment) metrocops at Surrey, we can expect bearings as well as tickets. Maybe it’d be better to get one in the mail then.

      • @schmidtster
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        21 year ago

        I’ve seen that argument before, but the numbers don’t back that up.

        Red light cameras absolutely increase safety, there is a caveat though, it increases accident rates. It reduces deadlier accidents like head-ons and t-bones, but increases minor accidents like rear-ends. Arguably a tradeoff that has benefits.

      • Kbin_space_program
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        11 year ago

        Conservative Surrey politicians pushed for decades to get private police force.

        Signs all of the paperwork and the transition passes several opportunities to back out of the deal.

        When they realize how much it will cost them, their idea becomes the province forced it on them.

        Surrey politicians made their own bed and it’s 100% the fault of conservative politics. The NDP is saving the province and country money by making Surrey do what it begged to be able to.