Some canadian muncipalities have installed them. They were a dumpster fire as expected. Far more effective to run a manned blitz as you can get many of the offenders in a short period of time and those tickets are quite hard to beat.
Noise camera? Really
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I would prefer the blitz with heavy fines over lots of iffy charges with light fines.
Why throw out the device that you can use to beat them at their own game? Sounds like a baby/bathwater scenario to me.
Forget fines, just pull plates. Make them get a safety to put them back on the road. The chance they do a double exhaust swap is low.
Is that waze?Why throw out the device that you can use to beat them at their own game? Sounds like a baby/bathwater scenario to me.
A variation on HTA 172. If a police officer isn't a licensed mechanic, is he qualified to judge? Therefore, punishment before conviction.
The mto has always been able to pull plates on vehicles that don't meet standards.
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I agree it is common but there are grey areas where the judgement could be challenged if the challenger had enough money. Has HTA 172 been to the supreme court?
For municipalities that have a quantitative test (ie sound measurement) or if exhaust is marked off-road or competition only, you don't need to be a mechanic to document a fail.
Was the camera not on Waze? If you're not sure, maybe the message was just: "Use Waze"?
As for noise cameras, yes, popular in Europe. Luckily my bike there has Ontario plates so I just roll right by.
I don't like wayze. Too often in Ottawa the route changes as we're heading to to Quebec. My wife likes it, so we'll try it next time.
Ha, my partner and I are the opposite. I used Waze exclusively, but then it literally sent us in a circle while in Cambridge one time. After that incident, my partner always shat on it. So we compromised with Google, even though it's the same data.
Mad Mike
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If I were King, I’d farm out traffic ticketing to companies who can manually operate cameras. I’d let the public decide where they get stationed, not the CFO for the municipality.
- Speeding
- Red lights and stop signs
- Distracted driving (cell phones, makeup)
Other things I’d do:
- Reduce to near zero traffic enforcement by police (it’s not a job that should cost taxpayers $200/hr)
- Increase fines to make them a deterrent
- Apply fines indiscriminately - to pedestrians, cyclists and farm vehicles who break the law.
If you were king, how about just having a separate force for traffic enforcement altogether?
If I could ride around on a motorcycle, issuing tickets to people who are behaving dangerously or erratically in traffic, do you know how little you would have to pay me? Do you?
I'll tell you. You wouldn't have to pay me anything. I would literally come to your house once a week to mow your lawn, if you gave me a badge and let me ticket these fuckers 8 hours a day, before any more of them kill any more of us.
It doesn't need to be cops, but we do need more traffic enforcement. Right now we just don't have anything that isn't one or the other, and no one is enough of an outside-the-box thinker to make that happen. Which is crazy to imagine, because you don't even have to go to college to become a cop anymore.
So if you don't need to go to police foundations anymore to be a cop, why would you need a college degree to give someone a ticket for running a red?
Give me a ticket pad, tag me in, I'm ready to ruin some people's days before those people ruin some people's lives.
If I could ride around on a motorcycle, issuing tickets to people who are behaving dangerously or erratically in traffic, do you know how little you would have to pay me? Do you?
I'll tell you. You wouldn't have to pay me anything. I would literally come to your house once a week to mow your lawn, if you gave me a badge and let me ticket these fuckers 8 hours a day, before any more of them kill any more of us.
It doesn't need to be cops, but we do need more traffic enforcement. Right now we just don't have anything that isn't one or the other, and no one is enough of an outside-the-box thinker to make that happen. Which is crazy to imagine, because you don't even have to go to college to become a cop anymore.
So if you don't need to go to police foundations anymore to be a cop, why would you need a college degree to give someone a ticket for running a red?
Give me a ticket pad, tag me in, I'm ready to ruin some people's days before those people ruin some people's lives.
Mad Mike
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I’d join you. But I’d just sit on a lawn chair at the end of my street for an all I can eat buffet of bad drivers.
Mad Mike
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For that you’d be called a racist in my hood.
You should start a YouTube channel. You'll get called much worse, every week, forever, usually by people who can't even spell. Before you know it you'll look forward to the nasty comments and read them to the missus while you guys laugh about them together <3
