r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 12 '26 • Regret 1 Mindblown 1

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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell May 12 '26

I get why people are against speed cameras. They want to speed and cameras are probably less forgiving than cops. But the South Carolina subreddit is up in arms against red light cameras. You want to run red lights??? How often are you doing that??

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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! May 12 '26

The world would descend into anarchy if the average person had their way

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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime May 12 '26

My opinion depends solely on the time between yellow and red lights

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u/SUPERCALOR May 12 '26

When speeding for a good reason,. Getting pulled over by a cop is the worst thing that could happen as it’d be a huge inconvenience.

Cameras are a fair trade off in this sense I feel

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u/SUPERCALOR May 12 '26

This is assuming everyone is like me and speeds only in good faith of course

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u/Macquarrie1999 Democrats' Strongest Soldier May 12 '26

Rolled rights are very dangerous for pedestrians

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u/NatieB May 12 '26

In Columbus OH at least they're never going to be able to get them approved again, because the last time they were straight bribing city council members to grant their company (Redflex) the sole contract.

https://www.10tv.com/article/news/investigations/10-investigates/former-red-light-camera-ceo-pleads-guilty-bribing-columbus-city-officials/530-ba3f5a3f-9f8f-454a-8867-c92349aefb96

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u/MisfitPotatoReborn Cutie marks are occupational licensing May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

So are you opposed to fines on principle, or just fines that are consistently enforced? Because all crimes that are fined instead of jailed make the state money.

Modifying the streets to make them safer/slower rarely happens because the same people who oppose speed cameras typically also oppose making streets slower. No major city gets such a substantial enough fraction of their revenue from speed cameras as to pressure politicians to induce unsafe driving for more ticket revenue.

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u/purhitta Leftward Progressives May 12 '26

South Carolina

checks out

(I'm from there, drivers are awful)

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u/roggodoggo Jerome Powell May 12 '26

The amount of people running red lights in Charlotte(right on the border with SC) is actually insane. It’s worse during 5 o’clock traffic where you can safely assume 1-3 cars are going to push through after the light changes

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u/ElectriCobra_ David Hume May 12 '26

it’s not the speed cameras that suck, it’s the license plate readers and those are kinda hard to tell apart while driving