At least 11 Toronto speed cameras attacked in the middle of the night. A local resident says many drivers in her neighborhood are dangerous.

Maybe instead of roads designed for 80, set to 60, and reduced to 40, and then speed-camera’d, they could (get this) build roads that encourage drivers to follow the limit.

The only thing speed cameras and the current set up does is create a funnel for revenue, which was the goal to begin with.
They design the roads to encourage faster speeds, then penalize people for utilizing the roads as they were designed with fines. Those of adequate financial means pay the fines and continue on their way, providing revenue, while those who can't afford the fines get funneled into the prison system and become free labor.
There is no incentive for the State apparatus to make roads safer because that just means more operating costs while also forfeiting their near guaranteed revenue stream and losing one of their pipelines for the prison-industrial complex. The benefits only exist for the people, which we all know our governments don't actually give a shit about beyond how easily we can be exploited for the sake of "duh economy".
Yes, I know most of these examples are actually not a thing when you consider the long term effects of proper urban design and planning but unfortunately proper planning also has the side effect of empowering the working class and building community, which is something the State (or more aptly the owning class which controls it) absolutely does not want, as a strong community is more likely to gain class consciousness and realize life doesn't actually have to be full of mindless drudgery.
- Toronto is in Canada which doesn't have much of a prison industrial complex. Drivers will have their lisences taken away before they are facing prison time for simple speeding offenses. Extreme speeding or dangerous driving could see people serving time but nobody is going to jail over a ASE ticket. Unpaid ASE tickets will cause your cars registration to fail to renew, making it illegal to drive which often will not result in prison time unless you repeatedly drive without registration/lisencing.
On the one hand, you are right and that is the ultimate solution. On the other hand it will cost millions to redesign one road whereas the cameras cost thousands to operate. The cameras can be used as a band aid solution but when the road is due for repaving or rehabilitation, it should be redesigned.
There could be some middle ground by adding those flappy sticks to narrow the lane and make turns sharper, requiring slower speeds, at intersections until the road can be properly rehabilitated.
Unfortunately it's just too expensive to properly fix and redesign every road in the city. Even the posterchild of safe streets, The Netherlands, didn't get safe streets overnight, they did the above strategy of making streets safer when they were due to be rehabilitated.
- Ugh, I fucking cannot stand the excuse of "it's too expensive". God I fucking hate monetary based economics.
  We have the material resources in abundance. We have the manpower and capability of doing so. We just don't because we treat stupid, imaginary tokens of social value as a limiting factor. It's so fucking ass-backwards. If the imaginary tokens are limiting what we are capable of accomplishing then we should change the way those tokens function so we can actually achieve progress instead of limiting ourselves so a few owning class fuckwits can maintain their obscene lifestyles and control over what is or isn't possible.
  There could be some middle ground by adding those flappy sticks to narrow the lane and make turns sharper
  My city tried these. Every intersection they were placed all ended up broken within a month by people not paying attention and driving from habit. Now there are just nubs on the ground where they used to be as a reminder of how negligent and apathetic drivers are in my region.
- Definitely need some speed bumps on that stretch of road, all along Parkside. I really don't understand why some have already not been installed.

We'll need a camera to watch the security camera watching the speed camera.

Who watches the watch cameras?
That is actually how you're supposed to set up security cameras. Each camera should itself be in another camera's field of vision.
You can still beat that with masks and loose clothes, but it takes more planning and effort.

The cameras aren't a video feed. They take a snapshot if it detects you are speeding. Don't speed and your photo will never be taken. The municipality also public releases the location of the cameras and put signage up. You could alter your route accordingly if you wanted to avoid the cameras.