I agree, but the post above suggested that running red lights is a numbers game and that driving towards the sun is somehow an excuse for running stop signs. I am saying those laws should be subject to strong enforcement because: (a) it does work; and (b) the potential harm is great.
I also agree that there is enforcment thats obviously revenue driven /useless, like speed traps on roads where an accident hasn't occured in a decade. But any suggestion that all traffic laws are the same is complete crap.
Yes, it has obviously become about revenue generation, even to the detriment of public safety.
Unfortunately it isn't things, like running stop signs and amber/red lights, that are receiving enforcement in Toronto these days. I see police turn a blind eye to people running red lights, almost every day. Instead I see them doing speed trap enforcement or catching people who are making left turns from the centre lane, from the ramp from Gardiner eastbound to Yonge north, which used to be a legal turn and is almost impossible to make legally, if there's any reasonable amount of traffic on the road.
In fact they enforce that turn while ignoring people who are making right turns from the left lane, from Yonge south to Lakeshore west, which has NEVER been legal, and actually puts pedestrians at serious risk of death or injury.
I once received a ticket for making an illegal right turn from the centre lane of Spadina southbound, onto the the ramp to The Gardiner westbound. I had actually made my lane change, to the right lane, about 50 feet before the intersection but that's not the point (I was not convicted). The point is that even on a motorcycle I had been unable to make my lane change, up until that point, because of bumper to bumper and barely moving traffic as a result of people sitting in the intersection of Bremner and Spadina, from which I had made a left turn in order to go southbound. Rather than get to the heart of the situation, the drivers who were illegally blocking the intersection, police felt the need to hit up the people who were effected by the precipitating infraction.
