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Originally Posted by Kavy
I really don't see the problem - raise the fines and put more photoradar on the roads.
There are rules to driving, if you violate them you deserved to be fined. Free public money from people who are willing to take a risk for an extra tax. Everyone who gets a ticket knows the risk prior to committing the offense.
Personally, I speed as much as anyone, talk on the cell phone while I drive, and eat while I drive. For each of these offenses, if I get caught, I deserve a ticket, its that simple.
Raise the fines, I was doing nearly 20 over on the Yellowhead in Edmonton (just above the speed of traffic), and got caught by photoradar. $125 (or whatever it was) once every 5 years isn't going to slow me down. That is an insane deal, for $125 every 5 years I get to go nearly 20 over the limit. Neither is $150 going to prevent me from talking on a cell phone when I have the mind attitude that I won't get caught.
Speeding kills, talking on the cell phone while driving kills - raise the fines.
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So you'll be just fine with 5000 extra tickets from your past few years of driving in the mail when Vic Towes gets a hold of your phone's location records and does a bit of math and figures out your bill?
I'm only half kidding. In the UK they take a photo of every plate every few km. All fed into a central database and then compared with distances between stations and tickets mailed out as appropriate.
It's just another instance of rent seeking people living off people who do real work. And they take the high ground claiming its for public safety.