Cali is a surprise,
Posted on 01/29/2022 4:20:36 PM PST by algore
US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's plan to 'promote speed safety cameras' is raising the troubling specter of ubiquitous automated traffic enforcement in the style of the UK, where the cameras are widely despised.
Buttigieg's 42-page plan road safety plan unveiled on Thursday and backed by $14 billion in funding from the new infrastructure bill, contained only brief mention of the speed camera plan, but it was enough to set alarm bells ringing for worried motorists.
Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson slammed the plan as a misuse of the funds in the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Bill, fuming that 'you're about to get a lot more speeding tickets from robots.'
'When the country applauded $1.2 trillion going to fixing the roads, bridges and buildings, a lot of us were dumb enough to think that's what might actually happen,' he said.
Speed cameras have also drawn sharp criticism from some on the left, who are angry that the fines are often directed to fund police departments, making the issue rare grounds for bipartisan agreement.
Currently, eight US states have laws specifically prohibiting speed cameras. Only 18 states plus DC have speed cameras in use by law, with the other states having no law on the books authorizing their use. Buttigieg's strategy recommends pilot programs to study and promote greater use of speed cameras
Buttigieg said new federal data being released next week will show another increase in traffic fatalities through the third quarter of 2021.
Those numbers are expected to point to a sizable increase in deaths compared with the same period in 2020, adding to a half-year traffic death total of 20,160 that already was the highest half-year figure since 2006.
'It doesn´t look good, and I continue to be extremely concerned about the trend,' Buttigieg told the AP in an interview.
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Not a matter of moral quality. Speed kills, alcohol kills. Obey the traffic law and get to your destination or your home alive. Sorry if you don’t care about yourself or your family.
If you are going to tell me you have never exceeded the speed limit by even one MPH I am going to right here and now call you a liar.
Send the happy couple on a honeymoon in Teheran.
Cali is a surprise,
Try driving a Class 8+ truck through a light that shifts to yellow then red lightning quick.
Even going speed limit doesn’t give you braking distance on some of those.
This’ll lead to a lot more than speeding tickets. Widen the field of vision a bit, and at first—hey! we stopped a mugging in progress—and then—hey! you just abused your child! We’ll take him, thank you. Then—we understand you have been unfaithful to your wife. Instead of “working late,” you checked into a cheap motel with Vavara Novikova for an hour. It would be a terrible thing if your wife found out, wouldn’t it. So if you spy on so-and-so your trouble-making MAGA neighbor, who keeps showing up at school board meetings...
Took a while for 1984 to get here.
Never said that, Just have never had a moving violation, a parking ticket or an accident.
At least half a billion.
Well, I speed and since I’m posting to you, I’m not dead.
People like you are dangerous. Going 55 when everyone else is going 75. Enjoy your supposed superiority.
IKR....there’s a website somewhere that has all the pictures. They had to rework the design to make them higher up but that just makes them easier to drop with a push of the back bumper...
Smash the cameras with a baseball bat.
And send nursing Pete to San Fransicko.
SPEED doesn’t kill.
It is the SUDDEN STOP that gets you.
What...as a speed bump?
If the speed limit is 65, why not do 65. I can calculate time and distance. Not need to do 75 to get somewhere if one cannot to figure out time and distance.
“’It doesn´t look good, and I continue to be extremely concerned about the trend,’ Buttigieg told the AP in an interview.”
This pole smoker is only concerned about one thing and it’s not his job.
I don’t think that 405 thing ever happened, but I heard that the Wa state wants to track and toll every mile driven in the state.
They do have privilege lanes on the 405 where you can pay to go faster.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4033548/posts
Somehow I don’t believe that our illegal immigrant drivers can go 72 hours without being found not to have a license or insurance.
I speed to get somewhere faster, not because I can’t do math.
Lucky for me you have no bearing on how I live my life.
Good night.
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