Fuck cars but also fuck surveillance culture and fuck punitive revenue schemes like cameras that rely on the reality that no one strictly follows the rules to harvest cash from people, with no intention what so ever of actually encouragin people to follow the rules. Half the time it turns out that the cameras are rigged or they're manipulating the signals to trip people up so they can sponge more revenue without raising taxes. It's the same thing with traffic tickets - No one in that process cares about enforcing driving regulations, it's purely about meeting quotas to accumulate revenue.
These motherfuckers literally put up red light cameras and then move the "no turn on red" sign back so it is not visible from the stop line. And this shit always gets done in the poor urban neighborhoods. Never in suburbia. Oftentimes, the company which makes the cameras pays the up front costs in return for a cut of every fine that gets collected.
Fuck cars but also fuck surveillance culture and fuck punitive revenue schemes like cameras that rely on the reality that no one strictly follows the rules to harvest cash from people, with no intention what so ever of actually encouragin people to follow the rules.
I don't think this line of argument holds up to scrutiny. It doesn't work because it's done so little, the panopticon would actually lead to the rules being followed. You don't want that for other reasons, but it'd really do a good job for the problem described here.
Fuck cars but also fuck surveillance culture and fuck punitive revenue schemes like cameras that rely on the reality that no one strictly follows the rules to harvest cash from people, with no intention what so ever of actually encouragin people to follow the rules. Half the time it turns out that the cameras are rigged or they're manipulating the signals to trip people up so they can sponge more revenue without raising taxes. It's the same thing with traffic tickets - No one in that process cares about enforcing driving regulations, it's purely about meeting quotas to accumulate revenue.
These motherfuckers literally put up red light cameras and then move the "no turn on red" sign back so it is not visible from the stop line. And this shit always gets done in the poor urban neighborhoods. Never in suburbia. Oftentimes, the company which makes the cameras pays the up front costs in return for a cut of every fine that gets collected.
I don't think this line of argument holds up to scrutiny. It doesn't work because it's done so little, the panopticon would actually lead to the rules being followed. You don't want that for other reasons, but it'd really do a good job for the problem described here.