Speed camera update (Sept.11)

[oioioi]

Has anyone been on cambellville ave lately. The residents there are gonna be ******! Speed bump overkill! So dumb because it punishes the people that actually live there and have to deal with it every time they leave there home!
Oakville is installing all these weird small islands infront of schools? I assume they are traffic calming attempts. Wait till some old granna misjudges one of the chicanes and mounts one of the ramped curb thingies and takes out some people.

Milton has just installed a crap load of them and people are not happy.

Far too many spaced too close together.

Commercial Street in particular.

 

[Malks]

Has anyone been on cambellville ave lately. The residents there are gonna be ******! Speed bump overkill! So dumb because it punishes the people that actually live there and have to deal with it every time they leave there home!
Oakville is installing all these weird small islands infront of schools? I assume they are traffic calming attempts. Wait till some old granna misjudges one of the chicanes and mounts one of the ramped curb thingies and takes out some people.

Do these geniuses realize that speed humps and chicanes do absolutely nothing to slow a motorcycle? Stand on the pegs to absorb the humps and chicanes hardly require any evasive action, while making a boring road a little more entertaining.

 

[Brian P]

Shhh, let them think they're doing something.

 

[Fuzzbuster]

Do these geniuses realize that speed humps and chicanes do absolutely nothing to slow a motorcycle? Stand on the pegs to absorb the humps and chicanes hardly require any evasive action, while making a boring road a little more entertaining.

These ones actually have gaps in between so on a motorcycle you can actually continue at speed. In a car you can not.

 

[oioioi]

Given the ratio of motorcycles to cars on the roads. I don't think their "target audience" are motorcycle.

 

[GreyGhost]

31 cameras cut down in Toronto in the last 12 months. There is a pretty easy solution but I'm not going to give the city any ideas.

Multiple Toronto speed cameras found cut down Tuesday morning

A speed camera on O'Connor Drive and Coxwell Avenue was cut down overnight, making it the 30th one to be downed in Toronto this year.

toronto.citynews.ca

 

[sburns]

31 cameras cut down in Toronto in the last 12 months. There is a pretty easy solution but I'm not going to give the city any ideas.

Multiple Toronto speed cameras found cut down Tuesday morning

A speed camera on O'Connor Drive and Coxwell Avenue was cut down overnight, making it the 30th one to be downed in Toronto this year.

toronto.citynews.ca

So it's more of a wide spread problem then I thought, not just this one particular location. Interesting.

It's amazing residents/people are this adamant about some cameras.

 

[GreyGhost]

So it's more of a wide spread problem then I thought, not just this one particular location. Interesting.

It's amazing residents/people are this adamant about some cameras.

I think people are sick of a revenue tool constantly being pushed as a safety tool. If politicians were honest and called this selective taxation that you could easily avoid if you didn't want to pay it, I'd have much less problem with them.

I'd still have problems with the speed limits constantly dropping for political reasons and not engineering reasons.