Fifty per cent feel frustrated, 47 per cent feel emotionally drained and 43 per cent feel depressed.

I have a hard time believing that the other half is totally fine. Perhaps they just normalized debt so they’ve become numb to it?

I’m sure if I was paid enough to spend weeks compiling a list, I’d do it.

But what would that change for you? If you need more than the nearly 300 that are already filed in court (so far), then you probably won’t be satisfied with a list of 1000, or 10,000.

Just observe the things he does, and ask yourself whether it’s legal, unconstitutional, corrupt, or grounds for impeachment. You can add in unethical (but not illegal), if you like, but that would be like beating a dead horse.

For example, just a few hours ago, he posted about getting a “bum” out of office. That “bum”? A republican congressman who did not agree with the illegal act of bombing Iran. Firing someone for not agreeing with you breaking the law and oath to the constitution isn’t how a democratic country operates.

You can find countless examples of this, on a daily basis.

In my rural area they are putting 50km signs in the middle of the road on the yellow lines. Makes you feel like you’re threading a needle.

I like that idea!

We have something similar in a few spots around here using flexible bollards.

Doh, I got that reversed 🫣 Corrected now.

Just an FYI, there is a tracker of current legal cases against the trump admin (over 280 right now), and this doesn’t include much of the daily illegal stuff he does (like this recent attack on another country).

The tracker also doesn’t cover stuff like his scam phone, scam crypto, scam <insert any of the stuff he’s selling>, threats of annexation of other countries, using the white house to sell teslas, arresting people he dislikes, and so on.

There’s probably more than a 1000, now that I think about it. And this is all just from the beginning of the year. If you include his previous term, you could easily add a few hundred more. 🫢

I think the takeaway is that speed cameras won’t deter speeding

That’s not true.

Numerous cities report lower overall speeds, and a reduction in traffic collisions when automated cameras are deployed.

For example, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/annoying-thing-speed-cameras-ottawa-they-work-1.6786951 and https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/speed-cameras-proved-effective-at-latest-locations-10758040.

When my city installed the first speed camera, it clocked over 100,000 speeders in 40 days. Unfortunately, we gave drivers a grace period, so no fines were issued at the beginning.

But in those areas, speeding was reduced.

I’d rather have roads designed to be slow and require attention to navigate, but good luck getting anyone to listen to that. Trying to get any speed reduction strategies to be implemented is very difficult because of NIMBYs.

Driving is a right privilage, not a privilege right.

Speed enforcement cameras (and red light cameras) are doing something that we don’t have the money to do via traffic officers.

Roads should be watched and laws enforced. Because people killing people with their vehicle shouldn’t be something we view as normal or acceptable, IMO.

Edit: fixed glaring mistake.

I’d love to see enforcement that leads to demerit points. But you need a revenue stream to pay for officers on the ground, and nobody wants to pay more in taxes to compensate.

Either we use the revenue to fund traffic cops, or we set fines high enough (but proportional to income or net worth) in order for it to be self-sufficient.

We’re far too lenient on drivers that can’t drive safely.

One of like 1000 things he’s done in the last few months that was either illegal, unconstitutional, “grounds for impeachment”, or corrupt. 🥱

I mean I think its fine if people “know” the places they have to slow down for the cameras

What that does is cause people to slow down where the cameras are, then speed up where they aren’t.

If drivers assume that cameras are everywhere, watching and waiting to ticket them, maybe they’ll just go the posted speed limit.

The idea of speed cameras is to get drivers to slow down.

It’s one strategy that works for some people. Speed bumps work for others. Narrow streets work for others. And so on.

It’s also one of the least expensive ways to deter speeding, recoup the costs of infrastructure, and enforce the law.

To have 30k tickets after their install shows that they’re not doing the job of getting people to slow down.

They just installed them! It’s not like the same people are getting 100 tickets. At least, I hope not. If they are, mandatory retest should be required to drive again.

All I know know is that I only needed to get one speeding ticket for me to never speed again.

And that was in a speed trap, not because I wanted to be an ass on the road. An 80km/h country road suddenly turned to 50km/h without a warning, and I was already slowing down…

That was over 20 years ago, but I digress.

If people are constantly getting tickets, they should have mandatory driving school and a retest. But still ticket them so their habit can pay for better infrastructure in the meantime 🤑

council is due to receive a report from staff on ways the city can create more effective signage about the presence of cameras.

Are you fucking kidding me?

It’s like pointing out to thieves where all the cameras in a bank are.

The speed limit sign is the only information drivers need. If they are going faster, it’s a ticket.

These automated speed cameras seem to be working exactly as intended. The 32,000 speeders can go fuck right off.