Speed cameras always end up devolving into a petty political football that creates more opposition and resentment than harm prevention. If you need to consider speed cameras at all, it means you definitely have an infrastructure design issue. That’s where both the attention and the money should be going.
The money from these camera tickets must go to improving road safety. And the city must not decrease the amount of money they put towards road safety either.
Speed camera ticket fees should go solely to servicing the municipal bonds issued to pay for road diets, and if you’re bringing in more ticket fees than you have bonds to pay then you need to issue more bonds to pay for more road diets.
Speed cameras always end up devolving into a petty political football that creates more opposition and resentment than harm prevention. If you need to consider speed cameras at all, it means you definitely have an infrastructure design issue. That’s where both the attention and the money should be going.
You’re right about civil infrastructure, it’s a shitshow of road layout in some parts of Oakland.
However, they’ll print money with these cameras the way people drive.
What’s really interesting is that between Oakland and Berkeley, there are so many cyclists risking their lives every day
The money from these camera tickets must go to improving road safety. And the city must not decrease the amount of money they put towards road safety either.
Speed camera ticket fees should go solely to servicing the municipal bonds issued to pay for road diets, and if you’re bringing in more ticket fees than you have bonds to pay then you need to issue more bonds to pay for more road diets.