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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
My only issue with photo radar is that they tend to set it up in spots that provide the most tickets and revenue instead of places where speeding is a problem but with less traffic.
It's designed around catching the maximum number of people for $$ purposes, not focusing on areas where speeding needs to be curtailed.
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Yep. It's always been a cash grab. I don't mind it set up in playground zones to get residents to evaluate their speeds in areas like this but they usually like to place it in intersections that are traffic heavy but not necessary the ones that see a lot of accidents like McKnight Blvd and Edmonton trail as they make a ton of money when people start speeding up coming down the hill to merge on to deerfoot and I haven't seen an accident for the past 11 years I've been taking that daily. I've seen plenty of accidents on a Barlow Trail intersection though and that one never gets photo radar likely because the volume of traffic is lower.
I take offense to photo radar being an idiot tax and I'm a person that hasn't been ticketed in years and there's not a single person here that hasn't exceeded the local limits numerous times on almost a daily basis. The speed limits are set low for safety margins but they are ridiculous in some areas to which nobody follows them because if you did you would be obstructing traffic flow such as John Laurie which has a ridiculous 70 km/hr limit between Shaganappi and Center street. Sure idiots do speed just like idiots weave in and out of their traffic while looking at their cell phones or idiots that don't realize their vehicle came equipped with signal lights. Speeding is just an easy target as even the police don't follow the limits in most areas because they are too low so you just pick and choose high volume intersections and roads to send out those supplemental tax bills.