Lorraine Explains: Despite whiners and vandals, speed cameras work — via drivingdotca
“[A] camera positioned outside of Runnymede Junior and Senior Public School was vandalized on 32 separate occasions, making it the city’s most targeted camera by far,” reveals the article. Kids bored in the summer? Maybe. But with more and more houses sporting cameras, it would be nice to start catching some of the idiots who are costing us all more money.
in vulnerable urban settings. Most places don’t bother with cameras on highways, because there aren’t pedestrians and cyclists on highways. They’re actually being used now in an intentional, warranted way.Article contentinteresting conversation . David Simon received a US$50 ticket for clocking 36 mph in a school zone posted at 25 mph . His complaint? He got dinged at 5:40 a.m. in July, in New York. That state recently upped the ante of speed cameras, so “they now effectively blanket the five boroughs; the Legislature stipulated that cameras had to be placed within a quarter-mile of a school” and all school zone speed cameras now are on around the clock; they used to be switched off between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
New York is reporting an 80 per cent drop in speeders due to the cameras, better even than Toronto. More tellingly, perhaps, is the finding that over half of those receiving a ticket don’t receive a second one — you can teach any dog new tricks. Exceptin North Scarborough who, in 2021, received 17 tickets from the same camera. It proves cameras aren’t the complete answer, as people who can afford to speed, with money being the only consequence, remain able to do so.
Every year police and cities kick off back-to-school warning blitzes, warning that kids will once again be walking and for drivers to slow down. As if these kids evaporate every summer? It’s time to stop pretending that lowered speed limits that protect vulnerable road users can be turned off and on.Share this article in your social network
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