• georgette@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I can almost guarantee once these go into effect, they will put them in places where the flow of traffic is generally not going the speed limit on most days

    So you are saying they will put these cameras in places where a lot of people are breaking the speed limit?

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      That’s not how speed limits work. They are legally required to be raised if traffic is going faster:

      “Once the road is built, engineers will evaluate the existing speeds by measuring the operating speed. They often do this by measuring the speed that 85 percent of drivers are travelling at or below, called 85th percentile speed.”

      Per federal FHWS/MUTCD regulations.

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        1 year ago

        Tell me 1 instance of a freeway that raised speed in recent years. Practically every freeway in CA that’s not the 5 has a 65 mph limit. Traffic absolutely doesn’t flow at that speed on a bunch of them.

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      1 year ago

      No, I’m saying we have low speed limits relative to what’s actually a safe driving speed, and putting a camera there to punish everyone for driving as they normally do is a shitty move.