This study evaluates the largest automated speed enforcement program in the United States—2,000 cameras deployed across New York City from 2014 to 2023. Leveraging data on 700,000 collisions and 18 million speeding tickets, the analysis finds that cameras lead to persistent and sustained reductions in crashes. These results demonstrate that automated enforcement can meaningfully improve road safety while avoiding the harms associated with conventional traffic safety approaches.
jjjalljs @ttrpg.network - 1day
That makes sense.
I personally think unequal enforcement of traffic laws is fundamentally unjust, anyway. If it's really only safe to drive 25mph, enforce that equally. Don't let it be a vector for harassing minorities.
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AlligatorBlizzard @sh.itjust.works - 21hr
The struggle here is that so much of how fast people feel safe to travel is based on the built environment - narrow roads along with other physical traffic calming measures lead to people naturally driving slower. In the US roads were over engineered to be "safe" at higher speeds for people in cars, but speed limits are much lower due to the actual uses of these roads. Poor neighborhoods are often closer to stroads and interstates (interstates have been used to destroy poor communities historically) and are less able to fight high speed traffic bullshit and advocate for meaningful traffic calming measures, they've gotten less investment in general over decades.
It's a problem my city is about to face - the city installed speed ticket cameras this year and took steps to distribute them equitably to not specifically target poor neighborhoods, but based on the inequitable nature of the built environment the traffic cameras in the poor and minority areas will issue a lot more tickets.
technocrit in fuckcars @lemmy.world
New study provides evidence about New York City's speed camera program
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2520328122That makes sense.
I personally think unequal enforcement of traffic laws is fundamentally unjust, anyway. If it's really only safe to drive 25mph, enforce that equally. Don't let it be a vector for harassing minorities.
The struggle here is that so much of how fast people feel safe to travel is based on the built environment - narrow roads along with other physical traffic calming measures lead to people naturally driving slower. In the US roads were over engineered to be "safe" at higher speeds for people in cars, but speed limits are much lower due to the actual uses of these roads. Poor neighborhoods are often closer to stroads and interstates (interstates have been used to destroy poor communities historically) and are less able to fight high speed traffic bullshit and advocate for meaningful traffic calming measures, they've gotten less investment in general over decades.
It's a problem my city is about to face - the city installed speed ticket cameras this year and took steps to distribute them equitably to not specifically target poor neighborhoods, but based on the inequitable nature of the built environment the traffic cameras in the poor and minority areas will issue a lot more tickets.