Pinol County, Arizona sheriff ends traffic camera nonsense: thinks their main purpose is to make money.
Now, this is change we can believe in.
Besides being a naked attempt by less-competent local governments to make more money to make up for mis-spent money, traffic cams increase the chance of rear-end accidents.
You ought to see Redd and Resler these days. Paranoid people, afraid of getting their West Side SUVs photographed, are honking like mad at the less-than-Ferrari-like turns of people in front of them. It’s laughable, until it’s your turn in the turn lane.
The traffic cam scam has overtaken the City of El Paso, because of, well, an above-mentioned reason. It’s interesting how the companies who install the technology market the technology. In fact, it’s still probably not too late to buy into these modern-day snake oil salesmen. Their stocks are still looking good, even for short-term gain sharks. And they have plenty of podunk towns to ride into, selling their product with all the charm of Wild West snake-oil salesmen.
The best thing the City of El Paso could do would be to remove the traffic cams at Redd and Resler (for a start), so that all the Yuppies who live up there, and all the normal Upper Valley people who drive up there (leaving, unfortunately, their high-class Upper Valley haciendas with the plastic-and-wood benches out in front, even for a short time), wouldn’t be so stressed by the unnatural driving environment that these cameras create.
