Speed camera
- Thread starter FallOf81
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Not a dime from me, so to the extent that lowers city property taxes, I'm good with it.
The biggest money grab of them all are speed cameras set up in smaller towns of 15k or less that are placed in 30-40 mph speed zones. I don't believe for one second that those cameras were put up for safety because I seriously doubt that there have historically been significant safety issues around the areas where they are placed.
Getting money from people not following the rules, I don't know if I've ever been more ok with something.
Cyclonepride
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You'll be pleased when everything you do online is monitored under the same principles.
Pride you doing some shady **** online that we need to know about? Get me this mans Chrome history.
KidSilverhair
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KidSilverhair
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I do not concent to the PO-lice taking me to jail and I have no contract with them.
I'm a living man and those speed cameras are NOT living. There is NO victim!
I do not have a contract with the corporation of Iowa and you WILL get my fee sheet.
I have seen a lot of little towns where the speed limit goes down to 45 or 40 then 30 through or on the edge of a little town and then goes right back up. There are a lot of travelers who don't slow down at all in those zones and keep trucking the 60-65 they are doing on the 55 mph highway or county road. A lot of those drivers know that the little town doesn't have a municipal police force and has to contract with the county for policing so there is a near zero chance that there will be any enforcement there.
Yeah, you don't want motorists driving 60 mph through town so in cases like that I could see cameras being installed as being for legit safety concerns. I guess I was talking more about towns in the 5k-15k population range that have stoplights, stop signs, city police patrolling town and enough traffic that motorists aren't flying through town at 60 mph. Placing a camera in a town like that in a 30 mph speed zone isn't about saving any lives.
Yeah I know when Strawberry Point put them up, a big reason was during the study they did before hand. In a 24 hr period, there were at least 30 cars who were traveling at 15+mph over the speed limit of 35mph where they have the cameras set up at. They have one full time officer last I knew for the town.
Why does the size of town matter? If there’s a 30 mph road that goes through a town and people are going 42+ mph, that does seem like a safety concern. In fact, I’d say that 12 over in a 30 mph zone is a lot bigger deal than 12 over in a 55 mph zone.
The camera's themselves or the speeds recorded? I don't remember what location the speeds where for.
I'm thinking of one particular town of around 7k in North Central/Northeast Iowa that I frequently drive through which very recently put up 4 speed cameras. I can almost guarantee that there weren't any significant safety issues in the spots where the cameras are located and they won't have any significant affect on making those areas safer for other motorists or pedestrians. Off course the reason given that the cameras were needed was safety, but the honest answer would have been that they are there solely to increase revenue.
