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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Instead of inventing strawmen because your safety argument fell apart why give it another go and explain how restricting photo radar only to areas that are already speed-reduced and removing a large portion of the budget (you know, the thing that pays for all that enforcement) makes us “safer.”
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Ah yes, playground zones are speed-reduced therefore they require no enforcement because people abide by the limit. My point is obviously that people are not abiding by the speed limits in those areas. If you don't believe that slowing down traffic in a playground zone has a bigger impact on safety than slowing down traffic in the middle of nowhere on Airport Trail then I don't know what else to tell you; I already conceded the point that there will be a massive decrease in revenue.
The only reason we ever got to this point was a highly irresponsisble deployment of photo radar by muncipalities like Calgary who pretended it was about safety by identifying playground and school zones, but deploying them only at fishing holes.
If, instead of sitting on Airport Trail 180 days a year, they occasionally would hit a playground zone or two... then maybe Albertans would not have developed such hatred for the program and feverishly complained to the extent that your beloved idiot tax is now gone.
The very thing you love so much about photo radar is what killed it.