• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    “It highlights the bigger problem, such as the frustration that the motorists have,” Lacroix said.

    Frustrated that they can’t speed??? Frustrated enough to commit a crime because they can’t commit a different crime??? 🤔

    Since it was installed in April 2022, the camera has issued over 65,000 tickets and more than $7 million in fines, according to Safe Parkside.

    This highlights the bigger problem, such as the complete lack of care that motorists have. 🤭

    Keep fining them. And catch the people or persons who are vandalizing the cameras so they can spend the rest of their life paying for the damages.

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      I don’t know how it is up there, but down here in the states those traffic cams are pretty much all run by private for profit companies who take like 99% of the fines for themselves.

      So I’ve got no problem with folks destroying them.

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        Yea we’ve avoided the mass privatization of speed cameras so far and the vast majority of the fines goes into the city municipal budget, where it can be spent pretty much anywhere but often is spent on the roads themselves.

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        Our cameras directly benefit the community, so people who destroy them here are criminals with no redeeming justification.