I am once again asking for the use of pedestrian oriented infrastructure to slow car speeds instead of using Orwellian surveillance cameras
There’s a very, VERY, valid reason Brampton drivers pay the highest rates in the country. I dare you to go there and try to drive around for the day and make it out of the city in one piece.
You see those videos of traffic in some Asian countries where it’s essentially everyone for themselves? that’s Brampton except replace the scooters with cars and add snow.
As someone who has drove through Brampton at various points in the past four decades this is such a wild exaggeration it’s almost comical.
This article touches on core factors and discusses the elimination of regional variances in insurance premiums within Ontario: https://www.thestar.com/business/brampton-is-the-most-expensive-city-for-car-insurance-in-ontario-here-s-why/article_816b6b40-d767-596e-bdba-50e83c41af6d.html
That is an insurance industry’s & governments’ problems, those traffic related (banned speed & which includes Red Light) cameras are just cash cows from poorer people, that has to drive, to divert the buy to Rich-Super Rich Economic Classes/Owners.
Then tickets should be income proportional, and of course all while speed cameras shouldn’t replace making streets safer/slower and dieting
Why should it be money at all. The one thing every driver values is their license. Start knocking days off, move to weeks and months if the behaviour continues.
BINGO!
Don’t break the law and it costs you nothing.
In the general case, it is impossible not to break the law. Eventually even through no fault of your own you will break the law. What is your advice then?
Become a better driver then, and put down the damn phone. There is zero chance of “accidentally breaking the law” if you are actually paying attention to driving. If that is your excuse, you are a bad driver.
I said “in the general case” but you just want to be angry at people who aren’t here so go nuts little buddy
Maybe, you do not live within a life that has less resources (public transportation comes on time or at all, traffic lights that work, traffic lights timing works & Etc.) than average person, less traffic (affects the previous resources being delivered properly) & from your profile not disadvantaged by living in The USA. All three of those affect me, here in South Fl., if I had a job to get to under those above conditions, plus having take of so many responsibilities at home- 2-elderly roommates, would probably cause me to speed.
The problem with red light cameras is the financial incentive to make them catch people. When enough people know there is a red light camera, the number of people who run reds goes down, and the number of rear-end collisions goes up. The camera costs a fortune every month, each camera, so if its revenue dropped because people know it’s there, there’s financial incentive to shorten the grace before the red light, to increase the number of red light runners…
the number of rear-end collisions goes up
[citation required]
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This is about speed cameras, not reduce light cameras.
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Rear end collisions DO go up. But head on collisions, oblique collisions, pedestrian collisions, and cyclists collisions go down. So yeah, more fender benders but at the benefit of less fatalities, casualties, and write-offs.
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Fixing intersection geometry at problematic will have better results than red light cameras.
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