2 more Toronto speed cameras cut down, as Ford urges city to do away with 'tax grab'
2 more Toronto speed cameras cut down, as Ford urges city to do away with 'tax grab'
Can anyone explain how a cop there regularly is better than a speed camera?
7 comments
-
-
Yet again, fuck off Ford and stay in your lane.
-
Cops actually slow people down, speed cameras don't.
-
CAA reports as well as studies conducted of driver behaviour before, during, and after shows that speed cameras do.
I don't want to balloon cop budget to allow proper enforcement. This is a better route with fines going to something useful
-
As soon as you know where the speed camera is, it's very easy to get away with speeding.
-
idk about these; I haven't driven significantly in Toronto in over a decade, but Calgary has mobile speed cameras in unmarked cars, so they can be moved around. They just look like a car parked on the side of the road. And people slow down for school zones in Calgary.
I think they're very effective. As soon as you cross the border to BC, where automated speeding cameras are illegal, people drive about 10km/h faster, it feels like. On Deerfoot (in Calgary), you'd occasionally have someone pass at +30. On the Island Highway, +40 isn't atypical. (That's 150 km/h... Crazy fast, especially knowing that kinetic energy is the square of velocity.) And people regularly blast through school zones in BC at +30, and +40 isn't overly unusual (70 km/h in a 30 zone). (Comparatively, 50 in a 30 zone was the usual max I noticed in Alberta).
Or maybe it's just that BC drivers are massive speeders, and the speed cameras thing isn't the reason. Hard to know without data.
-
-
7 comments
I support speed cameras!
Leave them alone and drive under the posted limit