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Originally Posted by Acey
Only if the number of sites deployed is directly correlated to the revenue generated by existing sites, which the Calgary chief made clear that they are not in his 30 minute rant against the province for calling the sites cash cows.
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
You’re not this naïve. Cities *haven’t* being using these “extra” resources to enforce in the right areas, that’s the whole problem. They’ve been using it to deploy more enforcement in fishing holes to generate more revenue while ignoring locations where safety is actually a concern but aren’t lucrative enough.
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Alright, so deployment to these “fishing holes” is not correlated with deployment to “the right areas,” so that makes these two separate issues and arguments against these “cash grabs” using other areas as reasons for why they shouldn’t exist irrelevant.
So I go back to the fact that it’s easy not to get tickets if you don’t speed. And if these set ups are catching speeders in areas notorious for having them, it’s an idiot tax (or usage tax, if you want to be nice) that benefits all the rest of us.
A different, unrelated issue is that there is not enough enforcement in playground zones. Something we can all agree with, but isn’t actually connected to this issue.