As a general rule I’m not for speed cameras. Construction zones are the exception though.
Anything that can be done to regulate speed in those zones needs to be considered and tried.
Unfortunately too few people actually see the results of unsafe driving.
The news cameras don’t show the blood and gore they only show a wrecked car and a cop giving a lecture on safe driving.
If the news shows were allowed to show the mangled bodies and blood soaked cars it might make an impression on the public.
Death is so foreign and clean to most people that safety is not a concern.
When drivers blow by me in construction zones I just smile and let them go.
If you are holding up traffic by driving the speed limit you may be saving someone’s life. You never know.
I heartily agree. I typically do 5 above in a construction zone (which I will now not do, but do the speed limit after reading your I-80 account), and people are whizzing by me or riding my ass. Those speed cameras do cause people to slow down, even though no points are added to their licenses for a ticket.
If the news shows were allowed to show the mangled bodies and blood soaked cars it might make an impression on the public.
Perhaps they should. I saw something similar 21 years ago, only it was a van hitting a dog. The dog got up from under the front wheel and limped its way home, screaming like a woman. The driver got out; he was all broken up over it. I will never forget it. I suspect the dog's owner had to put it to sleep afterward.