08-12-2016, 03:38 PM
(08-12-2016, 03:27 PM)Canard Wrote:(08-12-2016, 03:05 PM)highlander Wrote: I've appreciated the discussion here, perhaps it was pessimistic to say this is unenforceable. But if it really is no different than other laws, why were there only 19 charges laid in a year? My own experience and what I'm hearing from others suggests it's a rather common occurrence.
I look at "only 19 charges" and think of it the other way around - maybe the message got across and there were only 19 charges because people are behaving better.
I'd be more worried if there were *more* charges...
From my experiences, this sadly isn't the case. While it's hard to measure objectively whether things are better or worse, when I experience three close passes on one trip up Weber St., the prevalence of tickets has little to do with the prevalence of the activity.
Another example, failure to signal, I see it probably 20-30% of the time people are supposed to signal, but I doubt you see very many tickets for it. I see police cruisers fail to signal frequently for that matter.