City of Ottawa data from a handful of former photo radar sites show a steep drop in driver compliance through school and community safety zones.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53463841

Before the cameras were installed four years ago, roughly 17 per cent of motorists followed the posted speed limits. … In the last year before the cameras were banned, compliance reached 87 per cent.

Within a week of the cameras’ removal, that fell to 62 per cent, and three weeks later, it had dropped to 50 per cent.

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Carlucci says it’s time for drivers to reflect and consider one simple question.

“Why are you speeding in a school zone?”

  • healthetank@lemmy.ca
    1·
    2 days ago

    Problem is people aren’t good judges of what is, in fact, a safe speed.

    Edit: the second problem is that making it feel unsafe while not being unsafe (or unfeasible to maintain or prohibitively costly) leaves very few options.

    • Pyr@lemmy.ca
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Absolutely, I have driven with my boss enough to know that he absolutely does not know what a safe speed is.

      Especially when a safe speed for you when you were 40 is probably not the same speed when you are 60 but you are used to driving that way.