Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it?
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoIt’s my understanding that speed cameras don’t actually make roads safer, they just generate revenue for the city.
Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it?
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoIt’s my understanding that speed cameras don’t actually make roads safer, they just generate revenue for the city.
Bridger@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
In my city a program of speed cameras was instituted about a decade ago. A private speed camera corporation lobbied the city to install, maintain and administer the system. Whoever it was that they bribed to approve it did so and the system was installed. For the first year it brought in a bunch of money extorted from the citizens. Then the revenue dropped below the minimum amount that the corporation wrote into the contract as their cut (people figured out where all of the cameras were). At that point the system was costing the city money rather than generating revenue as the corporation had promised. So they started using mobile cameras. This worked for a short time but the blowback was sharp. In the end the system was scrapped.