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Speed camera cut down for second time in Cornwall (www.bbc.com)

submitted 10 months ago by mondoman712@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

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It's insane the lengths that some people will go to save a few seconds on their commute, while also endangering others.

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[-] essellburns@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Good. Speed cameras are an abominable hypocrisy. The claim that they're there because safety is important is undermined by the total lack of action Devon and Cornwall police take against actual unsafe drivers.

I drove past a police officer standing with a speed camera recently at 20mph with another car driving less than two feet from my bumper.

Had I been speeding I'd have gotten a ticket, meanwhile the police watch this actually dangerous driver sail past them without taking any action.

Half a mile later I have to drive onto the wrong side of the road around a lorry parked on a corner, with almost no visibility of oncoming traffic.

Their moral authority is destroyed and their pretence shattered by their own inaction and ineffectiveness.

So tear down the speed cameras if it highlights their fiction. Devon and Cornwall police are great at many things. Traffic is not one of them.

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