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/53463866

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?”

Eliminating speed cameras is tacit approval of speeding.

  • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m not gunna cuss ‘em out, and it’s still poignant. Besides, people are individuals no matter which department they work in so it’s not like I’d be ranting at a machine that literally cannot accept outside information.

    Though, in this case it would be a question of the reception of punishment. Why should I be punished for something that those punishing me don’t even seem to care about or take seriously?