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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To quote Supertramp, “you’re coming along...”
ROFL!
Have you actually drove 5 miles through a school zone? 20 miles limit on a busy street? It’s impossible.
They only burn the cameras because they don’t have guns.
“ Not sure what can go wrong with speed cameras, but someone will find it and exploit it.”
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They work, uh, suboptimal my with multiple holes in them.
“ Not sure what can go wrong with speed cameras, but someone will find it and exploit it.”
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They work, uh, suboptimal my with multiple holes in them.
Maybe people have the right to confront their accuser in court. A robot camera can’t appear to testify against you. Attitudes like yours are chilling. “I never break the law so it doesn’t concern me.”
Our town only has one traffic light, but a small city a few miles down the road has set the traffic lights so that they wait a couple of seconds before the lights turn green, after the cross traffic lights have turned red. It does help avoid getting t-boned by some guy running a red light.
I live in PA genius. We have home pages on FR.
So you are a school teacher or college professor that drives 15 miles to work and 15 miles back home.
I can take you on a ride where the speed limit changes 3 or 4 times in 25 miles. All you have to do is look in your rear view mirror at the wrong sign and that deputy who makes his living hanging paper on non natives will get you.
As for tickets, the last one I got was 20 years ago for 65 in a 55 zone. I thought it was changed to 65 and told the cop so. He said I was off a little. In two weeks it would be 65. I asked if he was still going to give me the ticket and he said he was.
I told him I had nothing more to say to a guy that would do that. Write the damn ticket.
50 years and not even a parking ticket? You have not driven enough miles to speak on the subject.
Turns out the cameras — which were supposed to eliminate “systemic racism” by police officers in issuing traffic tickets — are citing a disproportionate number of minorities anyway ... so they obviously have to be shut down.
I would think it would be hard not to have minorities make up most of those caught; FIFTY years ago, I was shopping downtown Chicago, and every clerk was black. Most of the suburbs aren’t that way, but Chicago proper sure was.
And I bet he goes 55 in the left lane.
57 years - None that you got caught for.
Wow. This thread has more angry comments than a Catholic vs Protestant OR a smoker vs non-smoker thread!
I’ve got no problem with societies enforcing their laws, motor vehicle or otherwise. But the person who gets penalized ought to be the person that committed the violation.
*** Thousands burned across Europe. ***
Somebody might even shoot them with shotguns.
A sharp increase from 2020? You mean from the midst of the scam-demic?
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That jumped right out at me as well. There were several months in 2020when there were almost zero cars on the roads. Now the Biden administration will use data comparing 6 months of 2021 to 2020. Most Americans are so clueless about numbers, they will probably believe that Biden has worked a miracle. The propaganda media will support the bogus comparisons.
“Wow. This thread has more angry comments than a Catholic vs Protestant OR a smoker vs non-smoker thread!”
Yeah, all because some guy says he doesn’t speed.
I blame COVID. People are losing their minds.
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