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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you make of speed and red light cameras, getting more minority drivers, than per capita?

Are they racist too?[/quote]

That data doesn't exist for Montgomery County.

Data from other jurisdictions and nationally points to inequities in road design
 https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/01/18/analysis-when-speed-cameras-are-racist/

[quote]Journalists Emily Hopkins and Melissa Sanchez said the discrepancy stemmed in large part from road design in Chicago’s BIPOC neighborhoods, where there are a preponderance of wide, highway-like roads that signal to drivers that it’s okay to travel quickly. Thanks to decades of racist policy, communities of color are significantly more likely to be located in close proximity to highways, industrial areas, and high-speed arterials that prioritize the speed of drivers over the safety of residents.[/quote]

[quote]A 2021 study found that three-quarters of the most-dangerous roads for pedestrians in the United States run through low-income neighborhoods, which are themselves disproportionately likely to be communities of color. And as in the Chicago study, in which all the highest revenue-generating cameras were located on four-lane roads, nearly all those corridors were designed explicitly for speed. A whopping 97 percent of the deadly streets identified in the study had at least three lanes; 70 percent had at least five.[/quote][/quote]

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