Posted on 01/29/2022 4:20:36 PM PST by algore
US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's plan to 'promote speed safety cameras' is raising the troubling specter of ubiquitous automated traffic enforcement in the style of the UK, where the cameras are widely despised.
Buttigieg's 42-page plan road safety plan unveiled on Thursday and backed by $14 billion in funding from the new infrastructure bill, contained only brief mention of the speed camera plan, but it was enough to set alarm bells ringing for worried motorists.
Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson slammed the plan as a misuse of the funds in the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Bill, fuming that 'you're about to get a lot more speeding tickets from robots.'
'When the country applauded $1.2 trillion going to fixing the roads, bridges and buildings, a lot of us were dumb enough to think that's what might actually happen,' he said.
Speed cameras have also drawn sharp criticism from some on the left, who are angry that the fines are often directed to fund police departments, making the issue rare grounds for bipartisan agreement.
Currently, eight US states have laws specifically prohibiting speed cameras. Only 18 states plus DC have speed cameras in use by law, with the other states having no law on the books authorizing their use. Buttigieg's strategy recommends pilot programs to study and promote greater use of speed cameras
Buttigieg said new federal data being released next week will show another increase in traffic fatalities through the third quarter of 2021.
Those numbers are expected to point to a sizable increase in deaths compared with the same period in 2020, adding to a half-year traffic death total of 20,160 that already was the highest half-year figure since 2006.
'It doesn´t look good, and I continue to be extremely concerned about the trend,' Buttigieg told the AP in an interview.
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Maybe the thing to do is obey the traffic laws. Just my opinion. Fifty-seven years behind the wheel, no accidents, no moving violations.
Thousands burned across Europe.
Hang tire over camera.
Fill with gas.
Light.
In Illinois, the use of speed cameras was touted as being an unbiased and neutral method of promoting traffic safety without relying upon the racist police officers.
Now that the results are, the cameras are flagging minority motorists at a higher rate. Some lawyer is going to develop a class action lawsuit as to disparate impact.
Give him a year off. "Paternity leave".
IIRC they tried speed cameras in WA state on the 405 freeway.
So many cameras were shot out,they resorted to hiring people to be close to the cameras so it would be a Felony assault charge if you shot one out.
I don’t violate any Constitutional Federal, state, or local laws. I’m not required to rat someone out that does.
Speed cameras are a bad idea with 300 Million plus guns in the USA.
Less speeding, less gasoline use.
A smart move for their side, and they pass it off as safety.
That would get speed cameras removed from certain locations. Such as southside Chicago.
“Some lawyer is going to develop a class action lawsuit as to disparate impact.”
Totally predictable.
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A national speed tax that will never save even one life.
how about target practice
You sound like an obedient bore.
Traffic laws possess no moral quality.
A little black spray paint will fix that problem.
That’s all Pete is good for................
One of the problems with red light cameras is that to boost revenues they set the yellow light time to shorter than federal standards, resulting in a lot more red light violations.
When the courts found out they threw out a lot of the tickets.
Not sure what can go wrong with speed cameras, but someone will find it and exploit it.
It occasionally happens that someone throws a burning tire over the things.
Buttigieg’s 42-page plan road safety plan unveiled on Thursday and backed by $14 billion in funding from the new infrastructure bill,
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The infrastructure bill passed with the help of these nineteen Assistant Democrats.
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