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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is about to get a lot less car friendly.  Bowser has already started the process to install speed cameras throughout the city.  We have less than a year to dial it back.[/quote]

Not sure "enforcing the speed limit" means "a lot less car friendly." If you don't speed by more than 5 mph, you won't get a ticket. [/quote]

Oh please.  Not a single one of us drives below 25 mph at all times.  So save that holier than thou bs.  Speed cameras are a nuisance that don't make traffic better.  In fact they make it more dangerous because people slam on the brakes right before approaching one.  This isn't about safety.  It's about revenue and treating the citizenry as a resource to be plundered.  It's a solution in search of a problem.[/quote]

I do!  I drive 20 MPH on streets that are labeled as having 20 MPH limits and 25 elsewhere in DC. If you have to slam the breaks on the avoid a speeding ticket then that is your fault for speeding, not the fault of the camera

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No, it's the fault of the politician that put them there for nothing but pr and revenue.  It's the fault of the staffers trying so desperately to please.  But I thought it was about safety not punishment?  Speed cameras are a nuisance that in the large majority cases does not improve safety.  Their main purpose is to harrass citizens and raise money.  You seem to think that's a good thing.  I do not.

I do not believe your tale of piety.  Even my grandmother, the slowest driver i've ever known, hit 26 on Military without trying.[/quote]

The locations of the cameras are pretty well known. People either slow down to avoid getting a ticket (which is good) or they get a ticket (in which case, more revenue for the city, which is fine, too). I like the stop sign cameras better — one thing I've learned while working on my porch at times during the pandemic is that almost no one stops at the stop sign next to my house, which I'm not crazy about since we have young kids who play in the yard. But the speed cameras are fine with me, too, because they do slow people down, even if it's for the "wrong" reasons.[/quote]

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