![]() My husband and I got four tickets, just from that one camera. A while back, my husband and I actually got cited on a commonly traveled route in our neighborhood, where had just been placed right where a higher speed limit zone turns into a lower speed-limit zone, and that change happened very quickly, with almost no signage, and nothing in the roadway design that might intuitively suggest that drivers were supposed to slow down. Just to give a personal example, I live in D.C., and we love a traffic camera in D.C. ![]() You may see it at some particular cameras, but I would be curious to look at what else happened besides that camera being installed in that particular place. But I cannot conclusively say that happens across the country with the vast majority of cameras. You'd think you would see the number of those tickets reducing over a certain period. You would think, intuitively, that when you install a traffic camera, you would see a decrease in traffic crashes, injuries, and fatalities. There’s a little bit of research that we’ve looked at that could indicate that there is potentially a use for a small fine, but there’s definitely no evidence that a $1,000 fine is more effective than, say, a $10 fine in deterring dangerous behavior. Priya Sarathy Jones: Well, there’s one thing we do know pretty definitively: that there’s little evidence that the amount of a traffic fine - and definitely not the amount of a traffic fee - has any impact on traffic safety. ![]() ![]() A few smaller studies even suggest cameras may not reduce crashes much at all. How can street safety advocates make sense of the conflicting information? Streetsblog: What do we know about how much fines deter dangerous driving behaviors? I’ve seen compelling research that suggests that red-light and speed cameras reduce traffic fatalities, but I’ve seen other studies that suggest that improvements may come from other factors, such as advancements in vehicle-safety technology. ![]()
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