Toronto’s speed camera program is under renewed scrutiny as vandalism and political backlash mount, but road safety experts say the evidence is clear: automated speed enforcement works.
That is the issue with the way speed limits are implemented. They design and build a road for high speeds, then set the speed limit 10-15% lower than than the designed speed, thus penalizing drivers who use the road as designed.
There is nearby school that has a 20 mph limit during school hours. Slow traffic is a good thing especially around schools. But then they also have wide radius curves at the corners of intersecting streets and entrances into the school’s parking areas. These curves are wide enough to allow cars to take these turns at 30 mph despite crossing a sidewalk or crosswalk. That is infrastructure that kills children by design, and it’s standard.
Speed cameras are revenue generators. They exist to make money from fees. And because the speed camera can only give fees after the fact, there is no immediate consequence to speeding. A speed camera can only catch someone already speeding, they do not prevent someone who is already speeding from continuing. The only solution is better infrastructure.
Exactly! The stats apparently say that they do help, and to be honest I don’t doubt that, but they’re a last resort, after all the real work has been done, that are being used as the first line of defence so that cities and drivers don’t have to acceot that maybe driving everywhere fucking sucks.
That is the issue with the way speed limits are implemented. They design and build a road for high speeds, then set the speed limit 10-15% lower than than the designed speed, thus penalizing drivers who use the road as designed.
There is nearby school that has a 20 mph limit during school hours. Slow traffic is a good thing especially around schools. But then they also have wide radius curves at the corners of intersecting streets and entrances into the school’s parking areas. These curves are wide enough to allow cars to take these turns at 30 mph despite crossing a sidewalk or crosswalk. That is infrastructure that kills children by design, and it’s standard.
Speed cameras are revenue generators. They exist to make money from fees. And because the speed camera can only give fees after the fact, there is no immediate consequence to speeding. A speed camera can only catch someone already speeding, they do not prevent someone who is already speeding from continuing. The only solution is better infrastructure.
Exactly! The stats apparently say that they do help, and to be honest I don’t doubt that, but they’re a last resort, after all the real work has been done, that are being used as the first line of defence so that cities and drivers don’t have to acceot that maybe driving everywhere fucking sucks.