“We don't right now have any information about who put them up. We do know that they're very professionally designed signs. They're very large. They're very well done. So someone went to a lot of trouble to put these large signs up.”

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Virginia Holloway

@sky @johnlogic In all seriousness, my city just implemented cameras that catch drivers who pass school busses stopped with the lights flashing and STOP signs sticking out. A lot of drivers are being caught and serious people are complaining that it’s unfair on socio economic grounds to fine people since many are impoverished or from minority communities. Apparently just not passing stopped school busses isn’t an option people are willing to consider.
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@jcriecke
How about automatic photo enforcement?

For example, London uses automatic cameras to send citations for speeding and not maintaining safe following distances.

I'd add that if a camera catches a driver with a phone in their hand or earbuds in, they should be cited too.

If a license plate reader detects a fake plate, that should trigger a real-time notice to police to pull over and arrest the driver.

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@prokyonid Well they do also get their driver's licence taken away after a couple of infractions, off the top of my head maybe three? And there's a long process to get it back, if you ever do. But slap someone with tens or hundreds of thousands of euros of fines just once, and they'll likely try not to do it at least for a little while. Meanwhile, nice extra money to use for municipal improvement.
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@prokyonid You don't even have traffic cameras, and those speed metering poles that only trigger the camera when you pass the speed limit? Jesus fuck. I don't think we even HAVE traffic cops, if someone is needed in traffic, the closest car from the general roster is called.

Anyway, I have multiple other things to do, so let me just leave you with this:
It is possible, if not even necessary and important, to implement things that better things somewhat instead of chasing down a perfect solution while doing *nothing else* at the same time. No perfect solutions exist, only a legion of somewhat reasonable ones, patched together.

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