People drive the speed they feel is safe. Occassionally, they read speed limit signs. Occassionally, they drive slower after a ticket. But mostly: people drive the speed they feel is safe.

If you want people to drive slower, it needs to feel (not be, just feel) unsafe to drive fast.

Eliminating speed cameras is tacit approval of speeding.

“Why are you speeding in a school zone?”

Because people are selfish assholes. Bring back the damn cameras.

Design speed > Posted speed. If you want people to slow down, narrow the streets so they’re worried about losing a side mirror.

My favourite part is that our tax dollars are going towards radio ads about this ON gov't bs /s

The only effect zone for these cameras is the very small area they are visible for. By all means, leave them up, but to think that cameras slow drivers down for anything more than a few meters is disingenuous. Getting a big justice boner over them is the silliest thing imaginable.

Traffic calming measures, actual enforcement with real consequences like license loss, those things slow people down. Cameras are just theatre and revenue models.

Bingo, &/getting a affordable speeding ticket does not do that.

Plus, if you live in a community with too many drivers, police bother minorities communities to keep the communities in line & jobs moving farther away from you (both happened in my community) making is so you can speed to make on time to a job or obey the rules & make it to work late, risking firing, what are you going to do?
Plus is it fair to blame you?

They botched the rollout.

When you introduce new technology you have to get buy in from the users. That means transparency (open publishing of error models, printing speed error on the tickets issued), warning periods for a driver during which tickets are issued but without payment required (eg first ticket is a warning), and there should have been regulations against municipalities putting them everywhere, even in places that were nowhere near schools or other CSZ buildings.

If they had put in a bit of care, they could have built goodwill without giving the impression right out of the gate that it was a cash grab and if you contest it or ask for details, it's "trust me bro".

Elect conservatives get stupid policies.

1. Put up speed cameras. Remove cops.
2. Take down speed cameras. Don't put cops back .
3. With no cops, people drive like dicks
4. Politicians blame lack speed cameras instead of lack of any enforcement, but it has nothing to do with the big speed camera cash grab.

Anticipate porky speed cameras coming back.