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Fit-Anything8352 t1_iul03iu wrote

Reply to comment by Academic_Guava_4190 in Eversource CEO asks Biden to take emergency action on New England natural gas supply by OmarLittleFinger

Well the easy and effective(but also a dick move) way to make people not speed is to just ramp up enforcement and hand out a lot of tickets. I mean at some point if you're going 15mph over the speed limit for no reason then maybe it's time to stop driving or face fines...

As a bike commuter and cyclist the things I see people doing on the road(because I have to pay attention to it) are insane sometimes. Turning out of parking lots while texting and not looking, nearly causing head-on collisions with incoming traffic because they couldnt bother to check for oncoming traffic before trying to pass, doing 20+mph over the speed limit on suburban roads, sitting straight in the middle of 4-way intersections because they can't figure out how blinking yellows work and causing a traffic jam, ...

Can we just start retesting people every 5 years or something?

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fireball_jones t1_ium476s wrote

Nah just put up speed cameras. It’s always been fucking ridiculous that someone in a car thinks they can just drive whatever speed they feel like, but it’s equally antiquated to have a human out there standing on the highway with a gun to enforce it.

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AlexeiMarie t1_iun2178 wrote

iirc speed cameras can increase fatalities by encouraging municipalities to reduce yellow light durations in order to increase revenue by making it harder to stop before the light turns red, increasing the chances of people running red lights (which means more ticketa which means $$$) and/or slamming on the brakes and getting rear-ended

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fireball_jones t1_iun43m4 wrote

You’re talking about red light cameras, I’m not.

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AlexeiMarie t1_iun486r wrote

Oh shit yeah I misread and lumped them together

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fireball_jones t1_iun4hsq wrote

I agree red light cameras are bad. Heck, red lights period are bad, which is why more intersections are switching to rotaries.

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GreatAndPowerfulNixy t1_iumy76a wrote

Speed cameras and red light cameras are not allowed per MA DOT, and it's better that way.

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fireball_jones t1_iun499i wrote

Hmm yeah I wonder who pushed for making speed cameras illegal. Who would benefit from making $200/ hour to take naps on the highway.

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Academic_Guava_4190 t1_iul3r9k wrote

I’m with you. I can’t even tell you all the stupid things I saw people doing just today.

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