Comment My town is loaded with them (Score 1) 335
Speed cameras are a joke. I drive past 5 of them on a daily basis along with 2 red light cameras. Speed cameras produce a safety bubble. People slow down way under the speed limit when they pass them and speed back up as soon as they are out of the line of sight. It is $75 if you get pinged going 12mph over.
My town had a big controversy over one camera where the road went from 40 to 25. It was making a lot of money on this major thru road from one county to the other. They moved it a block down so people could slow down, still gets a lot of people.
Best one was when they installed one right off I-95 and 90% of my co-workers got multiple tickets within the first week of it being active.
Mobile speed cameras are also fun. I got good at spotting the white SUVs randomly parked in the construction zones on the side of the road that could take a photo of any lane.
OH and my town also has FAKE speed cameras! Yes they randomly move a fake camera box around and place it in locations that real ones are not allowed to slow down traffic.