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People just dont want tickets. They want to speed and not be held accountable.
In my town there is a speed camera right in front of an elementary school. People would drive on that road so fast. They ended up installing traffic calming measures (little speed limit signs between the lanes that make the lanes feel smaller) and it didn't help very much. People would brag about how fast they can drive by those without hitting them.
(Keep in mind there are often kids who cross the street from the neighboring community to get to playground, even on weekends and after school)
And then they get pissy that the town installed a speed cam.
Well, I haven't seen much speeding on that street since it was installed so im 100% supportive of it in this case.
In my area most of the revenue from the speed cameras goes to investing in more road safety such as bollards narrowing lanes, speed humps, and other traffic calming. They have my support 100% even if I've been dinged once or twice. We are at the point where we almost need a camera watching the camera for vandals.
They’re so nice. I would have recommended speed bumps instead of a speed camera
Why? Why should I have to drive over speed bumps when I am happy going the limit? A camera doesn't affect me, narrow lanes and speedbumps suck and make driving less pleasant. What happens when a fire truck or ambulance is trying to get to an emergency?
This ain’t about you. It’s safer to have physical barriers to slow people down for the school and the community. Some people might be okay getting a fine whilst speeding through a camera monitored area.
A few speed bumps won’t affect the outcome of an ambulance or fire truck. It is not safe for them or the community for them to be going much more than the speed limit. If you really, really think it’s an issue, put an emergency vehicle passing lane of some sort like you have for people to keep going while a car tries to turn left
So make the lanes narrower and add speed bumps to slow people down, and also make a passing lane for every speed bump and expect assholes not to use it? Almost as clueless a suggestion as the generic "just redesign every street and intersection in every city to make driving faster impossible!"
Barriers have their place and I don't mind having a narrowing area and speed bumps in front of a school or in a parking lot or whatever. But in a lot of places a camera is a simpler, cheaper, easier, better solution.
And a fire truck or Ambulance is quite capable of going 20-30 above a speed limit in an emergency most times of day and days of the week. I think as a society we take that small increased risk, balancing it with sirens and special driver training, so that people can have help arrive as fast as possible.
My "clueless" suggestion was to try to mitigate your "what if". I have no qualms about putting in speed bumps, narrowing the lanes and NOT provide a passing lane for emergency vehicles. You can use physical, controllable barriers to work within the same radio controlled infrastructure that already exists in many places that emergency vehicles use to communicate with traffic signals. There are retractable bollards, or even gates that can prevent normal access to the passing lane if you INSIST on a passing lane and preventing assholes.
Slowing down for a couple speed bumps will not significantly impact emergencies in most cases. If you have /data/ that demonstrates otherwise, please provide it.
I don't even know what you are arguing then.