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It's time to increase fines from $85 to $500 for blocking the box on any and all intersections. Doing so would make it's safer for everyone including pedestrians.

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[โ€“] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would free up so much more time for police if they instead spent money on cameras at highways.

If you have a camera at two fixed points along a highway you can easily calculate the speed that a car travels between those two points.

Have one car pictured at 9am and then pictured again at 9:50am 100km away through a stretch that's 100km/h?

Automatic ticket, easy. Obviously they had to have gone over the speed limit unless they know how to break the laws of physics.

[โ€“] Dearche@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I remember reading about a particular speeding camera that is actually turned off the majority of the time due to the sheer number of speeding tickets that are produced from it alone. It's so much that it clogs up the entire system so they just gave up and turned it off for like 2/3rd of the time so the people processing those tickets have time to work on other cameras.

Raising the fines is good and all (rather it really should be done), but I think the entire ticketing system needs to be overhauled as well so that it's far more streamlined to handle massive loads without hiring thousands of more people to brute force the problem.

The number of people who brag about their fines is staggering, treating them like badges of honor. If you check out automotive forums, you'll see it all the time, with people trading tips on how to push the limits of the demerit system to avoid having their license revoked without actually fixing their habits. There's even tips on how to legally obscure your license plate so you can't get caught on speed cameras.

Also regarding those highway speeding cameras, normal speeding cameras just take two pictures and measure how far the vehicle has moved during that time. Though if you just equip the camera with a doppler radar, you can just directly measure the speed that way.

[โ€“] Supervivens@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like at that point just raise the minimum speeding threshold for an auto ticket from the camera to lower the amount of tickets rather than have times of day where there are none being given out at all. Like donโ€™t advertise the threshold but just have it be a backend thing.

[โ€“] Auli@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is being pulled over is more effective then a photo radar ticket. Just the way we are wired immediate punishment for the act vs delayed.

[โ€“] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Until you get enough points that your licence is suspended

[โ€“] myusernameblows@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

No points for photo radar tickets

[โ€“] jadero@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

That sounds like the confectionary that stopped carrying a particular chocolate bar because they couldn't keep it stock. True story.

If they can't keep up to infractions, the solution is not to ignore infractions but to scale up. Or, in this case, put some traffic engineers on the case to see what's special about that stretch of road.