US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s plan to ‘promote speed safety cameras’ is raising the troubling specter of ubiquitous automated traffic enforcement in the style of the UK, where the cameras are widely despised.
Buttigieg’s 42-page road safety plan that was unveiled on Thursday and is backed by $14 billion in funding from the new infrastructure bill contained only brief mention of the speed camera plan, but it was enough to set alarm bells ringing for worried motorists.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed the plan as a misuse of the funds in the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Bill, fuming that ‘you’re about to get a lot more speeding tickets from robots.’
‘When the country applauded $1.2 trillion going to fixing the roads, bridges and buildings, a lot of us were dumb enough to think that’s what might actually happen,’ he said.
Nonpartisan motorist advocate groups are also against the plan. The National Motorists Association has a top 10 list of why speed cameras are bad, arguing ‘they can actually make our roads less safe.’
Speed cameras have also drawn sharp criticism from some on the left, who are angry that the fines are often directed to fund police departments, making the issue rare grounds for bipartisan agreement.
Currently, eight US states have laws specifically prohibiting speed cameras.
Only 18 states plus D.C. have speed cameras in use by law, with the other states having no law on the books authorizing their use.
Told You that DRONES are Next !!!! Flying over the roads You will Never see it & they will MAIL tickets !!!!
That is WHY that Drone company moved to Salisbury Airport !!!! They will make them for
Law enforcement (Police ) No DOUBT !!!!!
Be shure the Local Sheriff has ordered Drones !!!
With Drones the police can sit in their office & don’t need to be in a car hiding on the roads !!!!
It is Coming soon !!!
Easy $$$$ the Govt Loves it !!! Not about safety ONLY about $$$$$$
The cops SPEED more than anyone & get away with it !!! WHO pulls them over ?????
if people would slow the hell down, there would be no need
There is NO need for Radar cops !!!! Overpaid ticket writers !!!! Make them work a BEAT !!!
Fight REAL CRIME !!!!
People & cops will Never slow down just because they got a ticket !!! Common Sense !!!!
I imagine Nancy Pelosi’s husband just bought stock in these camera companies.
As the Vice turns ever so slowly around our necks, but of course as the lemmings sheep of I did not do nuthhhing crowd continues to cheer.
I don’t speed, I don’t smoke, I don’t vote, I DIDN’T do NUTH ING!!
I Look forward to the day when they are in line for their luciferian forehead stamp when they realize the corner they have painted themselves into is inescapable
America will already be Communist soon so no need for Russia or China to take over !!!!
The camera warning sign in Snow Hill by the nursing home coming into town is right on top of the camera. Definitely a speed trap. Don’t know if there is a rule that the sign has to be so many yards from the camera or not. Probably not.
That county is terrible for Radar tickets !!! They go overboard worse than Wicomico or Somerset !!!!
That Gestapo judge in Snow hill treats citizens like prisoners in her court , like Nazi Germany !!!
I’ll bet that 12:48 is the person you see driving in the left lane, 10 MPH below the speed limit and just can’t seem to understand why people tailgate him, blow their horns at him, and give him the finger as they constantly pass him on the right. Pulls directly into the left lane from wherever he leaves and remains in that lane from Salisbury to Dover.
He probably hasn’t used his rear view mirror for anything other than putting his make-up on and even though the “turn only” lane is 100 yards long, waits until the last twenty feet to get in that lane to turn, or, just as bad, stays in the turn only lane until he realizes it’s a turn only lane and swerves over into the next lane without warning.
Stay in the right lane and go as slow as you like……