Your increased fine dollars are going to support pension payments for retired city workers.

Your next rear ender is an unintended but acceptable byproduct.

Mass is deciding to head down this road in pursuit of revenue to state, not caring about losses in emergency rooms, morgues, body shops.

It’s not been twenty years; it’s at least fifty. I’m sure that if you ask someone old enough, he will tell you that it pre-dates World War II.

It’s time to start pushing 85th percentile for the next twenty years then, isn’t it?

Photo enforcement will be on its way out. The reason is that it is nothing more than a numbers game.

Photo companies MUST HAVE VIOLATIONS to be profitable. That is what people are slowly starting to figure out as they get whacked for stopping 1 inch over a stop line, right turn on red. Or my personal favorite as of late, fake school zones set up in Baltimore MD so they can install speed cameras. http://blog.motorists.org/maryland-cities-undermine-school-zone-safety/

Although I’m not sure how well a complicated argument like 85th percentile would sell given the past 20 years of “speed kills” propaganda.

Many traffic laws are absurd and the proper solution is to reform them. Changes like 85th percentile speed limits, reasonably long yellows at stoplights and changing most stop signs to yield signs would go a long way to encourage voluntary compliance. In the absence of reform, inefficient enforcement is a tolerable compromise.

I would add that politicians need to remember that law enforcement means law enforcement, not making money.

John

Many traffic laws are absurd and the proper solution is to reform them. Changes like 85th percentile speed limits, reasonably long yellows at stoplights and changing most stop signs to yield signs would go a long way to encourage voluntary compliance. In the absence of reform, inefficient enforcement is a tolerable compromise.

Twotone