Speed cameras A deterrent or a cash cow?

[Gandalf]

I can see the need in residential areas and near schools, but otherwise they are quite daft. A speed camera on the highway breaks the flow and everyone is concentrating on their navigation system. I think in that situation safety is irrelevant, cameras increase the potential for carnage at high speeds.

[Dia bando]

North Wales Police, are a pain in the ass they have a mobile speed camera, in a horse box trailer
I kid you not hiding behind hedges.No welcome in the hillside, if your a Motorist or Motor cyclist
coming to this part of Wales.

[Spicoli]

Cash cow no doubt. They are literally all over the place down here but as of last year they are on the way out. They were ruled unconstitutional then it was overturned and once again ruled so. They are actually talking about a Judge ordering refunds for those fined!!

I think they cause more danger then cure. We've had more than a few sudden brakings and rear end collisions as well as people spending more time looking up for 6,7 cameras and hitting objects and pedestrians. A big part of it was the number of photos and the rights of passengers etc. Its all a money grab. They pisser is you have no grounds to dispute or even talk to an officer or City official. They mailed a picture and a due date...that was IT! You called City Hall or court house and its a recording!! I'll be looking for my $150 in the mail....fuckers

[Mark TKO]

cash cow no doubt

I dont mind ones on motorways or odd one on wide roads that are 30mph etc...

But the ones on roads where the speed limit continually changes 30-40-30 etc.. every few hundred yards really fuck me off. The cameras are right after the speed changes too. Don't tel me they are there for fucking safety reasons.

Coincidentally I been caught out twice by one of these twats where it drops to 30 One was at 2am too. Cunts

[VictorCharlie]

A few years ago we had a lot of them in urban areas but when citizens started bringing them up at city/county meetings it became clear it was not meant as a deterrent but rather a means to raise revenue. Compound that with people realizing that the "ticket" was not an actual court ordered fine and could be ignored the legal challenges pretty much finished it off. Thankfully we aren't so much a fascist nation that we couldn't throw off this big brother racket.

[Dia bando]

Trouble is with a speeding fine over here, comes 3 points if you accumulate 12 point in a 3 year period
you are banned off the road, depending on the of offense you may have to retake your driving test.
You may have to pass a advance driving test, to get back on the road.

[Andre]

Yeah we got the points off thing too. Around schools times in school zones its 40 kilometers or about 15 mph now thats a good thing.

Cops should sit there all morning and make certain but they dont, they are at the front of the freeway getting dudes doing 110 instead of 100.

Meanwhile the odd chick in a big four wheel drive blasts through the school crossing zone looking at herself in the mirror and gets away with it.

Im all for spraying the lenses and writing warning signs. Ive put signs up the bend before the cops once, years ago, time to start again .

[0james0]

100% there to make money.

Just like adding tax to alcohol is supposed to act as a deterrent. Blatant lies.

There are 3 relatively new things on the road that annoy me. Speed camera I have come to accept and avoid, these annoy the fuckwich out of me:

Average Speed Cameras
They clock your number plate using one of many cameras, then once you have left the final camera, they average your speed and fine you if it was over the limit. This means people crawling along perfectly good straights on dual carriage ways.

Bus Lane Cameras
If you should stray into a bus lane, even if its empty, is safe to do so and follows the natural racing line to where you want to go. Bam! Fine in the post. Even if you are helping to cause a jam in the lane you are, exiting into the empty stretch of road (which if everyone could do it there wouldn't be half as much traffic) you still get fined. It's not as if buses are hard to spot before you nip in the lane quickly to get to a junction shortly up the road.

Camera Cars
These little fuckers drive around with a camera on top. They scan and snap and catch loads of people. Bus bays, yellows etc. all without stoping. Drive and snap! Bastards!

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