Apparently some revenue needed generating...

[Bman76]

From a local news article:

IMO, interrupting rush hour flow to write tickets is just stupid. If everyone is running 70mph, who cares? Sure, write a ticket for the guy weaving through at 90mph, but why screw up efficient traffic flow?

Fuckin nerds.

[ranwhenparked]

@bman76 Must be something like that going on around me, I swear every state trooper in Delaware has been camped out all over Greenville the last few days for some reason

[facw]

@bman76 NYC reportedly is coming up $2.5B short on property taxes due to COVID. Sounds like an idea time to focus on Vision Zero enforcement (especially as I believe pedestrian deaths were up last year).

[Bman76]

@facw said in Apparently some revenue needed generating...:

@bman76 NYC reportedly is coming up $2.5B short on property taxes due to COVID. Sounds like an idea time to focus on Vision Zero enforcement (especially as I believe pedestrian deaths were up last year).

Problem is that Kellogg is an elevated highway (US400) and there are no pedestrians to protect. Come write tickets to all the cars that run red lights downtown, and the people who constantly treat red lights as stop signs.

[Tekamul]

[ST80MND]

@bman76 said in Apparently some revenue needed generating...:

Fuckin nerds.

Unreasonably funny.

[Urambo Tauro]

@bman76 What they NEED to run a crackdown on is turn signal usage. They do realize that they can make money from that, right? Sure, speeding can affect the severity and likelihood of a crash, but what actually causes crashes in the first place? Two objects trying to occupy the same space at the same time. Crashes would be much easier to avoid if people didn't suddenly swerve out of their lane without warning. Of course the bigger issue is about respecting right-of-way and yielding as necessary, but turn signals would be a ridiculously easy thing for an officer to sit and watch for (on the same level as monitoring vehicle speeds), and the enforcement thereof would go a long way in actually improving road safety.