A camera is payed for ideally by the speeder, and any extra “revenue” should then go to the redesign of said streets, roads, and roadways.
And then the city gets a taste for this free money and lowers the speed limits, reduces the cutoff, and does whatever they can to keep fining people and increasing revenue. Fuck all this shit.
Plenty of cities have been caught reducing yellow light times so that they earn more from red light cameras. This actually leads to more accidents as people slam on the brakes when they see a yellow even if they would have plenty of time to make it through a light under normal circumstances. This shit is always introduced in some positive way (“it’s only going to catch those evil, criminal speeders and they’ll be paying for all this! Look we caught a guy doing 100MPH on the freeway!”) and quickly morphs into some dystopian bullshit (“our camera caught you driving 25.3MPH in a 25MPH zone. Here’s a $1,000 fine with no way to contest it”)
And then the city gets a taste for this free money and lowers the speed limits, reduces the cutoff, and does whatever they can to keep fining people and increasing revenue. Fuck all this shit.
Plenty of cities have been caught reducing yellow light times so that they earn more from red light cameras. This actually leads to more accidents as people slam on the brakes when they see a yellow even if they would have plenty of time to make it through a light under normal circumstances. This shit is always introduced in some positive way (“it’s only going to catch those evil, criminal speeders and they’ll be paying for all this! Look we caught a guy doing 100MPH on the freeway!”) and quickly morphs into some dystopian bullshit (“our camera caught you driving 25.3MPH in a 25MPH zone. Here’s a $1,000 fine with no way to contest it”)