I don’t really understand how that can work well. In the UK speed cameras are on stretches of road where people may exceed the speed limit by significant amount, e.g. motorways (freeways in American). You wouldn’t have them at a junction where people would stop. I can’t recall ever seeing a red light camera here although I’m sure there are some somewhere.
Here in the US our stroads are built in a way that it’s really easy to go really fast on a regular ass surface road. There are roads near me that have a speed limit of 35 but would have a limit of 55 if it wasn’t for some shitty city planner who decided to put houses on the side of a 4 lane divided road.
Our only real highway speed enforcement comes from cops on the side of the road, but they’re equally problematic since people act erratically whenever they see someone on the side of the road which just makes things worse. I could have sworn I’ve seen studies about those but I can’t find them.
I’m not quite sure what your point is given the large proportion of road fatalities in this country are on rural roads not road junctions, removing the 5’ish red light cameras on the whole of the island would make very little difference.
Near me they got rid of red light cameras and accidents decreased. Not sure how things pan out across the pond.
https://ww2.motorists.org/issues/red-light-cameras/increase-accidents/
Red light cameras are not speed cameras
Here in the US they typically serve double duty. We don’t typically have dedicated speed cameras.
I don’t really understand how that can work well. In the UK speed cameras are on stretches of road where people may exceed the speed limit by significant amount, e.g. motorways (freeways in American). You wouldn’t have them at a junction where people would stop. I can’t recall ever seeing a red light camera here although I’m sure there are some somewhere.
Here in the US our stroads are built in a way that it’s really easy to go really fast on a regular ass surface road. There are roads near me that have a speed limit of 35 but would have a limit of 55 if it wasn’t for some shitty city planner who decided to put houses on the side of a 4 lane divided road.
Our only real highway speed enforcement comes from cops on the side of the road, but they’re equally problematic since people act erratically whenever they see someone on the side of the road which just makes things worse. I could have sworn I’ve seen studies about those but I can’t find them.
I’m not quite sure what your point is given the large proportion of road fatalities in this country are on rural roads not road junctions, removing the 5’ish red light cameras on the whole of the island would make very little difference.