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Is Automated Enforcement Making U.S. Cities Safer or Just Raising Revenue? — Streetsblog USA
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this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
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Just raising revenue. Cut down on vehicular traffic in cities and they'll be far safer than any automated enforcement could ever hope to achieve.
A city I lived in had automated traffic light enforcement. The city council received a report that it had neither reduced the danger at the intersections in question, nor had the program created enough revenue to pay for itself.
They kept it.