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Posted on 04/27/2025 7:15:59 PM PDT by DoodleBob
… The measure would allow the Maine Turnpike Authority, along with the Department of Transportation and Department of Public Safety, to establish a “pilot program” to operate three work zone surveillance systems on Maine highways.
The surveillance systems would be used to record images of license plates on motor vehicles traveling through the work zone at a rate of speed more than 11 miles per hour above the posted work zone speed limit.
If you get caught speeding in the work zone, your first violation would result in a written warning. Upon second and subsequent violations, you’ll get a fine sent to you in the mail.
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Proponents say the pilot program is necessary because 23 people were killed in Maine work zone crashes in a 12-year period leading up to 2023. Their argument is similar to the “if it saves one life!” line we heard from Gov. Mills and her cronies during the pandemic.
Not to minimize these deaths–because all deaths on our roads are tragic and preventable–but it’s not like Maine is some sort of national outlier in this regard. According to national data, there were 7,891 work zone fatalities nationwide between 2013 and 2022. Maine was responsible for 16 of those deaths. Thus, our state claimed .20% of all work zone deaths nationwide during that 10-year period, yet we account for .41% of the national population.
It’s also worth noting the majority of states already allow for some sort of traffic surveillance systems on their roads or highways. If these surveillance systems save lives, as proponents contend, why do most of these same states have higher incidence of fatalities in work zones than Maine does? …
Banning whipped cream might save one life from diabetes, but most Mainers wouldn’t support such a law.
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That... is great!
I frequently see work zone signs, but no one is doing any work. So, people often ignore the signs. If no work is being done, the signs shouldn’t be up. It becomes the boy who cried “wolf”.
“Their argument is similar to the “if it saves one life!” line we heard from Gov. Mills and her cronies during the pandemic.”
People gave me that line of crap regarding air bags here...just couldn’t comprehend that more people are likely killed (indirectly) due to air bags, than lives saved, probably by an order of magnitude (due to added cost driving people to use old, unsafe, cars, due to not being able to afford all the needless safety-related bells and whistles).
...so why not use that crap, since it even works on people who consider themselves to be ‘conservatives’.
If you are merely on a roadtrip and not commuting you should be immune — right?
Actually, I don’t see anything wrong with speed enforcement cameras in construction zones… but only during times where actual construction work is going on.
The article makes a great point..
‘According to national data, there were 7,891 work zone fatalities nationwide between 2013 and 2022. Maine was responsible for 16 of those deaths. Thus, our state claimed .20% of all work zone deaths nationwide during that 10-year period, yet we account for .41% of the national population.
It’s also worth noting the majority of states already allow for some sort of traffic surveillance systems on their roads or highways. If these surveillance systems save lives, as proponents contend, why do most of these same states have higher incidence of fatalities in work zones than Maine does?’
Science has given us so much. These license plate readers are simply tools to make the world a safer place.
We would never use it for any other purpose - said every tyrant ever.
‘ It’s also worth noting the majority of states already allow for some sort of traffic surveillance systems on their roads or highways. If these surveillance systems save lives, as proponents contend, why do most of these same states have higher incidence of fatalities in work zones than Maine does?’
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Well, I can attest that Maryland is loaded with:
- reckless drivers,
- inattentive drivers,
- speeding drivers,
- illegal alien drivers lacking knowledge of safe driving techniques and ability to read English signs
- teenage (and older) carjackers joyriding or driving to/from crime scenes
- etc., etc.
We certainly would leave Maine’s experience with this crew far in the dust.
Washington D.C. And NYC both have 25 mph city wide speed limits and both are enforced by plate reader systems. In rental cars they just bill the card on file when they send the citation to the rental agency and they match the date time to who was the registered rental agreement. $130 for NYC and $125 for D.C. If under ten miles over the camera’s trigger at 5 over. There is no court or appeals they do send a link so you can watch the video of the violation and the plate grab frames too. Most times you can even see the drivers face too.
Yep, and the passenger compartment looked totally intact. We have seat belts, seat belt laws, and cars nag people to use them, but I guess that’s not enough for some here...they want a big-ass explosion in their face also.
We have this in Maryland. You speed past a work site, you get a camera ticket. It’s only prudent to slow down around work sites. A couple of years ago, two complete a-holes were racing each other on a major road outside Baltimore and ended up killing a work crew of men, several of whom were young fathers. They got jail time, but what good did that do the half-orphaned children.
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