# New types of traffic cameras allowed by the state legislature have the potential to lead to big safety gains in Seattle -- but a potential clash over how those cameras are deployed could be on the horizon. SDOT and transportation chair Rob Saka are not seeing eye to eye.
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Cops and ICE are just going to use this to surveil citizens unjustly (arguably against their 4th amendment right).
Traffic cameras are revenue generators for police departments. Better road infrastructure is the way to make the roads safer. Traffic calming makes cars drive safer without requiring enforcement.
A penny to the PD is a penny too much. Speed bumps are better.
Hello! The consequence for going too fast over a speed bump is you get jostled around a bit and you decide how much of that you can tolerate. The consequence of running a red light can either be nothing or a collision. Red light cameras add an incentive for you to avoid a potential collision. We can have speed bumps and cameras :)
Would you feel better if 100% of the revenue collected from red light infractions went back to better road infrastructure?
There are better forms of traffic calming than speed bumps. Building an overly wide and smooth high speed road and then putting a speed bump in the middle of it is the kind of stupidity that typifies american road infrastructure. Rough, narrow, and curved mixed use streets causes traffic to drive slowly. Traffic cameras and school zones only exist because american roads are intentionally designed to be dangerous.
Money raised from road fines and tolls should go to public transport, like busses, and light rail.
You must like driving 25 MPH?
The city is turning into a giant residential neighborhood. Speed bumps everywhere, no turn on red signs, and now speed trap cameras. They really hate cars.
I’m in support of speed bumps and no turn on red signal. As a pedestrian, cars (and bikes!) are dangerous.
Cameras suck though. Fuck cameras.
The city residents are also seemingly forgetting about safety. In the past six months there’s been a car accident on the intersection right by my building about every month from somebody running a red light and colliding.
Cameras have their privacy considerations but I’m getting concerned about my safety as a pedestrian.
But tbf a large chunk of Seattle is residential