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The speed camera nightmare that's coming to America: How the UK's hated war on motorists provides a chilling glimpse of what's in store under Pete Buttigieg's plan
Daily Mail ^

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: automotive; buttigieg; buttihead; cameras; petebuttplug; speedcameras
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To: Bull Snipe

To quote Supertramp, “you’re coming along...”


81 posted on 01/29/2022 6:01:29 PM PST by FLNittany
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To: algore

ROFL!


82 posted on 01/29/2022 6:02:09 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: FreedomForce
 
 
Gonna be a new run on .22 rimfire, dangit.
 
 

83 posted on 01/29/2022 6:02:32 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Bull Snipe

Have you actually drove 5 miles through a school zone? 20 miles limit on a busy street? It’s impossible.


84 posted on 01/29/2022 6:04:36 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

They only burn the cameras because they don’t have guns.


85 posted on 01/29/2022 6:06:36 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: DannyTN

“ 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.


86 posted on 01/29/2022 6:10:08 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: DannyTN

“ 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.


87 posted on 01/29/2022 6:10:59 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Bull Snipe

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.”


88 posted on 01/29/2022 6:11:11 PM PST by rxh4n1
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To: CFW

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.


89 posted on 01/29/2022 6:15:24 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Sequoyah101

I live in PA genius. We have home pages on FR.


90 posted on 01/29/2022 6:20:28 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Bull Snipe

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.


91 posted on 01/29/2022 6:21:25 PM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the federal government can not make worse.)
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To: Alberta's Child

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.


92 posted on 01/29/2022 6:22:26 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: EEGator

And I bet he goes 55 in the left lane.


93 posted on 01/29/2022 6:23:17 PM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the federal government can not make worse.)
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To: Bull Snipe

57 years - None that you got caught for.


94 posted on 01/29/2022 6:25:04 PM PST by Surrounded_too
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To: nascarnation

I can’t drive 55.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvV3nn_de2k


95 posted on 01/29/2022 6:25:44 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (If It Aint Woke Don't Fix It.)
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To: 82nd Bragger

Wow. This thread has more angry comments than a Catholic vs Protestant OR a smoker vs non-smoker thread!


96 posted on 01/29/2022 6:26:02 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Bull Snipe

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.


97 posted on 01/29/2022 6:26:39 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

*** Thousands burned across Europe. ***

Somebody might even shoot them with shotguns.


98 posted on 01/29/2022 6:27:18 PM PST by Surrounded_too
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To: ThunderSleeps

A sharp increase from 2020? You mean from the midst of the scam-demic?

.......

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.


99 posted on 01/29/2022 6:30:19 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: Flaming Conservative

“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.


100 posted on 01/29/2022 6:31:11 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (If It Aint Woke Don't Fix It.)
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