Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[danbrotherston]

Photo radar is more efficient.

Mayor Vrbanovic asserted yesterday that "people want speed enforcement, but prefer it from a real, live officer." This is a huge cost, and it either means that we do not actually have speed enforcement (the practical situation today), or we have it at great cost and at the expense of other police activities that people also complain do not happen enough.

Not to mention the non-zero risk of every traffic stop to police officers and to the motorists they're stopping. To be honest, I would much rather receive a fine in the mail than to be pulled over by a police officer, wasting potentially half an hour of my time (at a time when I'm presumably in a rush to get somewhere) and his.

Many motorists just seem to want the right to speed, full stop. I wish Premier Ford and Mayor Vrbanovic would just say so, instead of pretending they care about being stewards of fiscal resources, and proposing the costlier speed enforcement option.

Very explicitly this is indeed the case of Kodra24 here.

I would actually go a step further here...and say that even people who want speed enforcement, don't believe they should be subject to it. Whether they believe they travel at the perfect speed and everyone who is faster than them (and sometimes slower than them) is a maniac and a dangerous driver, or whether they are just in denial about the speed they travel, this "rules for the but not for me" attitude is as pervasive as it is toxic.