RE: speed cameras and red light cameras....
In a post here when those were new ideas the FReeper referenced a news story that one city mistakenly allowed a company’s report to get out. It listed the intersections for paying the company to put in the intersection cameras the company sold. Some streets listed and then “Second Avenue at Anderson doesn’t have enough traffic. You won’t make any money on that one. Skip it.”
Showed the money making greed motivation instead of the “we want to protect our citizens and make them safe.”
Nobody here speeds near the school one block away from my place so it must be the two speed cameras the city installed keep everyone safe.
True, and per red light - initially most jurisdictions were caught shortening the yellow time.
Washington DC, upon getting lower revenue, decreased speed limits further in areas that were 25 to 20.
These systems are also primed for abuse. It’d be relatively easy to exclude a list of tag numbers programmatically, from being issued tickets. I’ve always presumed that certain folks get a free ride from EZ pass in similar fashion (I call it nazi pass).