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Originally Posted by GGG
Because speed limits in many ways are arbitrary and detached from the safe operating speed of a road.
So putting speed limits in fishing holes in many ways is taking advantage of human perception and bad design.
All traffic enforcement should improve safety if it isn’t improving safety what’s the point?
I hate to get all freedom but the role of government isn’t to enforce arbitrary laws. It’s to enforce law that improve the loves/safety etc of its citizens.
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Sure, but then you get into the argument of what is an arbitrary law and what isn’t. The solution here is exceedingly simple: you know where the photo radar is, so don’t speed through the photo radar. Few issues are that braindead easy to navigate.
If the speed of the road is an issue, put some effort into having them review the speed of the road.
If prioritizing safety is the issue, put some effort into having them focus on dangerous areas.
Complaining about photo radar doesn’t actually accomplish anything. And it’s so easy to avoid that I imagine most people don’t actually care about reasons for not liking it beyond “I don’t like getting tickets.” Which is totally valid, but also… easy to solve.
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Raising revenue is the point and his view is that raising revenue is a separate and also acceptable goal, independent of safety, for traffic enforcement. That is the argument being made here.
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Yup. And I think safety is a better/more important goal and would support exchanging one for the other, but I have a hard time buying that as the primary motive for most people’s issue when it comes to the “cash grab” spots considering it was over 20 posts before it was brought up.
The main issue seems to be somewhere around “I just don’t like it” or “it doesn’t seem fair.” If the issue is that there aren’t enough resources to police all the playground zones, then I’m not sure removing a handful of “cash grabs” is the best or really even one of the ways to fix that. Seems like an entirely separate issue.