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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Well, since the number of tickets given out seem to indicate that folks aren't wise to the speed limit, I'm not sure where this is going. No speeding (or staying to 10 over) means you'll almost never get a ticket, and it'll never be a problem. But apparently even keeping to around 10 over is a big problem for a majority of people?
As well, no matter where CPS sets up, folks will never agree that it's needed or not there. For everyone on here complaining about a certain location, I could probably produce two phone calls from people asking for enforcement there. The number of calls I get about folks speeding through and/or passing someone in a school zone are eye rollingly staggering.
A lot of folks here (on CP) feel that the speed limits are too low (I personally happen to agree), while the overwhelming majority of phone calls I deal with at work are that the speed limits are too HIGH and CPS doesn't do enough enforcement. So no matter where or when they set up, folks are both going to be glad for it, and angry about it.
I can tell you that a large portion of the locations for setup come from the Traffic Service Requests and phone calls we get. Not all, but a large portion of them do. I don't know the criteria for all site selection.
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I dunno. I'm just a guy that happens to clock clicks and observe. But if I were a betting man, I'd bet that the vast majority of tickets come from people that are out of their regular neighbourhood, or out of town. Your own anecdote of only having a couple reinforces the idea that you pretty much drive the same route daily, and that's more or less it. For someone that drives all over the city, random, daily, seeing these fishing holes is hilarious and frustrating. I should have added McKnight at 14th to the list. Oooh, yeah. Tons of problems there. Or is it that it's a lowered road that's 2 blocks from a police station?
Anyway. If it's eye rollingly staggering that you get calls for patrolling certain playground zones, then one of two things are the case...
1) It's not as dangerous as people think, which begs the question of whether the stupid low speed limit is appropriate.
2) Should the police be tagging people on Stoney at Metis going 118 at 245pm, or should they be outside one of these playground zones at the same time of day, when kids are actually walking home?
The answer is not safety, it's which location makes more money. Go check out Stoney/Metis any time, any day, and it's like 50/50 that that royal blue Escape is there, collecting taxes, and not giving a F about pedestrian/child/other driver safety.
And please, for the next few weeks, maybe listen and tell me if there are some amounts of crashes at that interchange that never get reported on the news. I'd really love to know why they're so obsessed with that particular spot if it has nothing to do with revenue.