Here in New York there’s a road in Brooklyn called “Ocean Parkway”, which has grown notorious for crashes small and large. In recent years it’s been studded with speed cameras, which collectively have reduced the speed on this wide 6-lane thoroughfare to something very close to the prescribed 25 mph. Speed cameras really do work.

You know what’s even funnier? Those who are unaware of the cameras, or don’t care about those robofines, tend to look like complete idiots when they speed and swerve around rows and rows of cars driving nicely and carefully at 25 mph.

Traffic enforcement should only be about safety and not revenue. But at as we saw red light cameras, cities places them at lights with the most traffic and not the most dangerous intersections. They lowered the yellow light times and in some cities it was so low that you couldn’t safely stop the car in time. Cities always try to skirt the rules to make more money and traffic court is a good example. Government shouldn’t be able to deprive people of property (money) without a jury trial.