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Didn't Elrich and the council just cut like 20 traffic officers?   Kiss Vision Zero goodbye[/quote]

Vision Zero is about road design, not about cops out on the street writing tickets. [/quote]

As the vision zero director said, road design is decades and billions of dollars away.   we need traffic enforcement until then.  [/quote]

Road design can start now. It's not all or nothing. Meanwhile we also need traffic enforcement, and [b]it needs to be automated traffic enforcement[/b].[/quote]
Why? [/quote]

Because we don't have enough police officers to be everywhere they need to be, all the time, and even if we did, it's a very inefficient and expensive way to do it. Not to mention that there's no question of bias with automated enforcement.[/quote]
You also have not presented a case for why it is necessary to only be fully automated. The purpose of traffic enforcement is to stop immediate dangers, not collect revenue. Automated enforcement does nothing to improve immediate safety of a driver engaged in dangerous behavior. The idea that everything has to be 100% one thing or another really does not make any sense. Automated enforcement is one tool and police are another tool for enforcement of traffic laws. We currently use both in this county. Maybe one could argue for increased automated enforcement, but there is no justification for 100% automated enforcement, particularly as it does nothing to address immediate public safety risks.[/quote]

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