cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53463841
Before the cameras were installed four years ago, roughly 17 per cent of motorists followed the posted speed limits. … In the last year before the cameras were banned, compliance reached 87 per cent.
Within a week of the cameras’ removal, that fell to 62 per cent, and three weeks later, it had dropped to 50 per cent.
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Carlucci says it’s time for drivers to reflect and consider one simple question.
“Why are you speeding in a school zone?”
We never had rotating speed cameras anywhere near where I live. I’ve seen them in Quebec though.
Ontario only just allowed speed cameras at all, and specifically only in community safety zones recently, which would be why you haven’t historically seen them. Most municipalities only had a few so cycled them through their CSZs.