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Which is more likely to have a stronger and more immediate deterrent effect on speeding: getting stopped in the act and getting a ticket (plus points on your license) immediately, or getting a ticket in the mail a couple of weeks (after you may have even forgotten being in that area) later and no impact on your licence?
In my city there was a photo radar set up at a construction site that issued 10 tickets to the same vehicle over a period of 2 weeks all before the driver recieved the first ticket in the mail. How does that improve road safety (assuming that actually the intent of photo radar)?
Fair - I agree it should be a faster fine to ticketing timeframe. Personally, I think they should do the one month "warning" tickets mailed out to everyone who speeds, when they first install the camera, followed by fines. Give drivers a chance to change their behaviour before being hit by fines.
But a cop isn't pulling over every single driver doing 50 in a 40 zone. A ticket camera is hitting all of them. I'd argue that's far more fair.
No, but having one pulled over does a really good job of slowing everyone else down and making them aware that there is active enforcement happening right now.
How is a camera not the same as active enforcement right now? There is a sign warning of the cameras use, a sign stating the limit, and the camera is usually visibile on the side of the roadway. If you are a responsible driver you should be looking for and reading the road signs and you would know there is an active camera enforcing speed limits.
Most people would pass that cop and go "whew lucky that wasn't me" then speed on the same stretch the next day because it unlikely they'll do radar in the same spot twice in a row.