The most viable alternative to traffic stops is a narrow chicane with solid bollards on either side, although oher traffic calming devices are available.
Traffic cameras exist to generate revenue, not to make the streets safer. Intersections with red light cameras almost always have shorter yellow lights, to increase revenue while making the intersection less safe.
WordBox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Source on speeding cameras working for anything other than revenue generation?
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
If that were the case, they would be hidden.
They are a deterrent for speeding most of all.
remotedev@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The ones around here, everyone just slows down getting to that intersection, and then picks up speed again after crossing through
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 weeks ago
That’s the main purpose of that cams. Slow drivers on strategic spots that have more chances of accidents.
Nurgus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In the UK (Where the op picture is) the police cannot collect the revenue from cameras and other fines. It all goes to the gov so the cops have zero financial incentive to install speed cameras.
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Nurgus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes but they get the same amount regardless of the fines. The police see no direct financial connection.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20927736/
Evotech@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
cochrane.org/…/INJ_do-speed-cameras-reduce-road-t…
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
More crashes and deaths means less cars and people.
Double win for the environment.
Environmentalists should be encouraging speeding and drink driving.
Morphit@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
You know the person who had the greatest positive impact on the environment on this planet? Genghis Khan, because he massacred forty million people.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Leans into the window
You think y’all can get this thing home?
NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
heraldnet.com/…/after-traffic-cameras-went-in-eve…