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Is Automated Enforcement Making U.S. Cities Safer or Just Raising Revenue? — Streetsblog USA (usa.streetsblog.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just raising revenue. Cut down on vehicular traffic in cities and they'll be far safer than any automated enforcement could ever hope to achieve.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

A city I lived in had automated traffic light enforcement. The city council received a report that it had neither reduced the danger at the intersections in question, nor had the program created enough revenue to pay for itself.

They kept it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yes.