04-03-2023, 08:16 AM
(04-03-2023, 12:00 AM)plam Wrote:(04-02-2023, 10:19 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: You make some excellent points. In particular, you’re absolutely right that many public routes with no speed limit signs cannot support travel at the default speed limit. Nevertheless you say it yourself — “you cannot be ticketed for exceeding the speed limit” (referring to exceeding advisory limits on curves). I think that applies both to automatic speed enforcement and enforcement done by police. If you’re going to have automatic speed enforcement, there needs to be a sign forbidding the behaviour which triggers the enforcement mechanism.
I agree that Council should not have reversed their decision. They should at least try the lower limits for a while, rather than cancelling the program before it’s even implemented.
So if you drive at the speed limit in the curve and it's actually too fast and you crash your car, you can still get a ticket for unsafe driving. Would you? That's another question.
I assume police could ticket for unsafe driving, but what I’m suggesting is that automatic enforcement couldn’t issue a ticket simply for speeding as such.
It’s not really a big deal and doesn’t prevent automatic enforcement; you just need to lower the limit to whatever speed you want to use for automated enforcement. I started discussing this because Dan was complaining that the City wouldn’t use automated enforcement to enforce a speed slower than the limit. I’m just saying that of course they wouldn’t. The core of his complaint remains: the roads department will use just about any excuse not to do something (except when they don’t, which makes it even weirder — it’s not like they’re consistently and malevolently anti-pedestrian, just sometimes).