Quote:
Originally Posted by Acey
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.
|
More strawmen, eh? What’s so difficult about this topic that you can’t have a straightforward conversation about it?
I never said playground zones require no enforcement.
I also never said Airport Trail has a bigger safety impact than a playground zone (but it’s also not the only site cut).
I also don’t “love” the idiot tax. I’m unaffected by it, because I don’t drive like an idiot.
Once again, I’ll ask: explain how reducing the budget and restricting the areas photo radar can be deployed makes us safer. Don’t make up some nonsense strawman to argue against, don’t give any sort of “well if they do this instead and add this and then…” thing, just answer the question straight up. In your world, the roads are safer if the police have a smaller budget and can enforce less ways in less places: how?
Here’s another question, for fun: Memorial Drive during rush-hour, tight road with moderate/heavy traffic, pedestrian crossing, and merges vs. a random playground zone at 8:00 PM in winter… which road/situation would you focus enforcement on to have the bigger safety impact?
Quote:
Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
They did not reduce the budget by 10 to 20 percent. The 2023 annual statement for CPS indicates that revenue from all fines and penalties was under 6% of total revenue. Fines and penalties were budgeted at around 8% for 2024.
|
You’re right, I was looking at the total Alberta number against the Calgary budget. My mistake.