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 4 days ago
Source on speeding cameras working for anything other than revenue generation?
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
If that were the case, they would be hidden.
They are a deterrent for speeding most of all.
remotedev@lemmy.ca 4 days 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 4 days ago
That’s the main purpose of that cams. Slow drivers on strategic spots that have more chances of accidents.
Nurgus@lemmy.world 4 days 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 3 days ago
Nurgus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yes but they get the same amount regardless of the fines. The police see no direct financial connection.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 4 days ago
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20927736/
Evotech@lemmy.world 4 days ago
cochrane.org/…/INJ_do-speed-cameras-reduce-road-t…
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days ago
Leans into the window
You think y’all can get this thing home?
NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
heraldnet.com/…/after-traffic-cameras-went-in-eve…