Post #1778114

2026-04-29 14:21 UTC

Unsurprisingly, the few traffic cameras in Vancouver "led to a 52 per cent decrease in drivers exceeding the speed limit by more than 25 km/h" and "Red-light infractions decreased by 13 per cent and the number of repeat red-light offenders declined 29 per cent in the past five years" 😲😲😲

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@ferricoxide@blahaj.zone 2026-04-29 16:31

@anthonyfloyd.ca@bsky.brid.gy Around here, automated-enforcement cameras lead to spot reductions in infractive behavior. During free-flowing traffic times (rare, around here, during daylight hours), people will continue to speed, run lights, etc. when transiting unmonitored areas. Then, when Waze (et. al.) warns them of upcoming automated-enforcement points, they'll slow down (etc.) within the monitored area. They'll immediately return to the infractive behavior once they're fully out of the automated-enforcement zone. Jurisidictions, which totally aren't deploying these systems as a way to pull revenue without treading the the politically problematic "increase taxes" path, buy more and more cameras. While 100% surveillance is certainly a choice, each enforcement-zone becomes less and less revenue-generating. Eventually, they become insufficiently revenue-generating to their commercial enforcement-providers that the providers either decide it's no longer worth their time to provide service or they raise their prices that the jurisdictions no long find the cost justifiable.

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