At least 11 Toronto speed cameras vandalized this week
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UK we have had speed cameras for ages. There was a trend for people to either spray paint the lens or even firebomb the camera. So they had to put in a second (video) camera mounted as high as possible to protect the first camera, quite amusing that a safety camera has to be kept safe by another safety cameras, its cameras all the way down.
Personally I think speed cameras that monitor a fixed point are pretty dumb unless that fixed point is an accident black spot such as outside a school or a red light camera for dangerous set of traffic lights. Its far better to have average speed cameras for a large section of road but those are more costly as you need way more cameras to make them work outside of motorways as you need to cover all the junctions properly.
Latest cameras we have in testing can see if you do not have your seat belt done up or are using your phone. Just stopping people from using their phone has to be the biggest step forward we can make with modern road safety.
Ah yes, the good old UK where it’s normal to arrest people for saying mean things on the internet and you’ve disarmed the working class, not to mention the UK created the biggest human rights problem in the middle east when your prime minister Balfour released the balfour declaration and now we have a settler colonial ethno nationalist apartheid state flagrantly committing genocide while using DARVO psychological abuse tactics and pretending to be the victim. thanks for all that white anglo saxon British imperialism!!!
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People vandalize speed cameras
Toronto city council decided last week that it will install “larger, more visible and clearer” signs to warn drivers where automated speed enforcement cameras are located in the city.
“HEY VANDALS! THE SPEED CAMERAS ARE OVER HERE!”
Temples fingers
Ex…cellent!
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Who’s got a higher salary, a cop or a camera?
What’s more effective at changing bad driving behaviour, being caught in the moment and spending 10 min on the side ofbthe road getting a ticket, or getting a ticket in the mail a couple if weeks later when you’ve probably forgotten that you were even on that road at that time?
Then you tick the court date box and mail it back to them. Then two or three years later, you get a court date, so you dust off your form letter charter 11b challenge, send it off to all relevant parties, head down to the Winchester and wait for all of this to blow over.
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Ah yes, the good old UK where it’s normal to arrest people for saying mean things on the internet and you’ve disarmed the working class, not to mention the UK created the biggest human rights problem in the middle east when your prime minister Balfour released the balfour declaration and now we have a settler colonial ethno nationalist apartheid state flagrantly committing genocide while using DARVO psychological abuse tactics and pretending to be the victim. thanks for all that white anglo saxon British imperialism!!!
Thanks for your contribution!
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The Ottawa Protocol
90 kph
Speed camera
50 kph
Past speed camera
90 kph
Nobody drives 90 in Ottawa. Especially not on the 417.
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People vandalize speed cameras
Toronto city council decided last week that it will install “larger, more visible and clearer” signs to warn drivers where automated speed enforcement cameras are located in the city.
“HEY VANDALS! THE SPEED CAMERAS ARE OVER HERE!”
They need cameras pointing at the speed cameras to catch the vandals, and maybe cameras pointing at those cameras just in case.
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They need cameras pointing at the speed cameras to catch the vandals, and maybe cameras pointing at those cameras just in case.
I would bet good money on it being only a matter of time before they vandalize the cameras watching cameras.
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Based on your response to my question, I am going to assume you have never seen an idiot driver in a roundabout.
Based on your response you have never seen a roundabout with raised safety platforms
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At no point did the article claim a desire to ban cars, we are just asking cars to go the posted limit. The idea that hating car dependancy is classist and racist is absurd. Providing free public transit can be one of the most effective ways to lift people up in society. Plenty of people would use their electric scooter in the winter. Tons of people have fun all winter in cold conditions riding snow mobiles, the same gear that works for them could keep a scooter rider warm. The bigger issue for scooter riders is our cities refuse to maintain safe infrastructure for them.
There is no world an escooter can be ridden even 3/4 of the year in a place like where I live, doesn’t matter the gear. (Sask)
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Again, you underestimate idiots.
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You were going 17 over the posted limit, as per your story, and weren’t aware enough to know about it.
Reading comprehension ain’t your strong suit, eh bud?
Thanks for another one. Keep it going DJ Khaled.
I’m not even OP. You’re something, kiddo.
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I’m not even OP. You’re something, kiddo.
I know you aren’t. Yet you are still dying ignorantly on this hill. Again, thanks for the laugh sweetums. I won’t waste further time with you, have a good one snookiepoo.
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Ah yes, the good old UK where it’s normal to arrest people for saying mean things on the internet and you’ve disarmed the working class, not to mention the UK created the biggest human rights problem in the middle east when your prime minister Balfour released the balfour declaration and now we have a settler colonial ethno nationalist apartheid state flagrantly committing genocide while using DARVO psychological abuse tactics and pretending to be the victim. thanks for all that white anglo saxon British imperialism!!!
Lmao, ill take the downvotes, better than living in lala land like the brits and not accepting the reality of what you’ve all been trying to pass off as civilized behavior for the last millennia has stained the world while normalizing genocide and exploitation. But god save the king right?
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UK we have had speed cameras for ages. There was a trend for people to either spray paint the lens or even firebomb the camera. So they had to put in a second (video) camera mounted as high as possible to protect the first camera, quite amusing that a safety camera has to be kept safe by another safety cameras, its cameras all the way down.
Personally I think speed cameras that monitor a fixed point are pretty dumb unless that fixed point is an accident black spot such as outside a school or a red light camera for dangerous set of traffic lights. Its far better to have average speed cameras for a large section of road but those are more costly as you need way more cameras to make them work outside of motorways as you need to cover all the junctions properly.
Latest cameras we have in testing can see if you do not have your seat belt done up or are using your phone. Just stopping people from using their phone has to be the biggest step forward we can make with modern road safety.
One of the first speed cameras I remember in Belgium was just behind the crest of a highway. Drivers would give more power to drive up the hill at the speed limit, they’d cross the crest and that same power would make them overshoot the speed limit. So they put a camera right there to maximize the fines. Without the camera there was nothing special about that spot, but with the camera there were a lot of front end collisions. Fine revenue was apparently more important than safety.
Placement of new speed cameras has gotten more sensible with time fortunately, but those old speed traps are still left in place unfortunately. For highways we now have a lot of average speed tracking and that has really improved the flow of traffic. And for villages/towns, there is often a clearly visible lone camera box at the beginning of the low speed zone, those work so well that there is often no camera in them, just the box is enough.
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Again, you underestimate idiots.
Look up about them
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Instead of wasting money on speed cameras and reducing speeds, we should be aggressively ticketing distracted drivers and pedestrians, and people who struggle to reach the limit in the first place.
Ticketing people for going under the limit is not wise. The biggest issue is due to inclement weather. We don’t want people driving faster than is safe for conditions due to fear of a ticket.
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I know what they are, that doesn’t change my point.
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I would bet good money on it being only a matter of time before they vandalize the cameras watching cameras.
It may get to a point where tax dollars are wasted having undercover cop cars, maybe even plain clothes officers, watching the cameras for vandals
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wasting money
Who’s got a higher salary, a cop or a camera?
Ticketing pedestrians
How about fuck no not in a million years. The LAST thing we need is to tell cops to go out and aggressively harass anyone who “looks distracted.”
Even if cars were the responsibility of people walking (they aren’t, wtf?) there’s a 0% chance this could go smoothly.
Depends on how often the camera needs to be repaired/replaced and where the money goes for the tickets it writes.
Cops need to start ticketing:
- people changing lanes without indication
- people turning without indication
- people driving in the inside lane when they’re not passing
- people who take more than 2 seconds to react to a light change
- People following bumper-to-bumper forming left-turn trains through yellow/red lights
- People who take more than a few seconds to get back up to speed
And also:
- Pedestrians who stand on the edge of the curb at the corner waiting for the light to change so they can cross
- Pedestrians standing literally on the edge of the road at the corner waiting for the light to change so they can cross
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Ticketing people for going under the limit is not wise. The biggest issue is due to inclement weather. We don’t want people driving faster than is safe for conditions due to fear of a ticket.
That’s fair, but easy to do: don’t have the cops issue tickets for driving slowly on days where there is inclimate weather.
