While simultaneously lowering speed limits: What to know about automatic speeding tickets coming to the Bay Area (sfgate.com)
“Enforcement must be part of our work to make our streets safer, and speed cameras can be a key part of that work,” SF Mayor London Breed said in a news release on Oct. 16. Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao issued a similar statement on Oct. 13, saying, “These cameras, along with our increased focus on street design and lowering speed limits, will help us save lives.”
They cite pedestrian safety and an increase in pedestrian deaths as a reason for automated speed detection systems. Many reports say that drugs and alcohol – in the pedestrian – play a major role in pedestrian traffic deaths. Perhaps 3 in 4 deaths were due to drugs and alcohol on board pedestrians.
Thus, automated speed cameras are treating the wrong problem. Unless the problem is the State needs an increase in traffic fine revenue.
During the 2001 recession, I lived in a state where some cities publicly asked police to write more tickets to increase local city “revenues”. Today, we have robo-revenue generators!
