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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
If you're concerned about speeding in your neighbourhood you can call the police and they'll set up a speed trap. We did that with the playground zone near our place and the police set up radar for a week, and then called me to share the results. It was pretty gratifying.
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No, they really don't give a F about safety, when it comes to speed traps. I lived in the middle of a playground zone for 5 years and requested them to patrol it a few times. I explained very carefully the direction and time that it needed to be patrolled, and the first time they sent out a photo radar, they put it in the right spot, and the completely wrong time of day. When I told them that, they sent out a second one, that was also at the wrong time of day, and also in the wrong direction.
Unbelievable incompetence on the part of the cop operating the photo radar, and on the part of the person who dispatched him. And when I emailed a third time to tell them again that they did it wrong, they told me that the spot didn't warrant patrolling because of their scientific research (ie, they didn't make enough money on their two attempts).
But you know what they never fail to do? Set up in their fishing holes. Yeah, busting people coming off the QEII and going east on Stoney at Metis. Been doing that since forever, and yet I never hear of any accidents there. Probably because people are just cruising by at a reasonable speed (120), and paying an "idiot" tax to the CPS.
The attitude of a lot of people really GMG. The speed limit is ridiculous in so many of these places, and the CPS simply capitalize on people that are driving to conditions. And when someone dares to question it, all the do gooders come out of the woodwork to say stuff like 'don't speed, don't get a ticket'. Yeah? Nice attitude. Just put up with BS because the cops say so. Don't question something that is ridiculous.