A lot of traffic enforcement is revenue generation. It really is road piracy for the sake of getting money, and not for keeping people safe. If you want people to slow down, install more speed bumps. Put speed cameras in your school zones, on your main thoroughfares, and leave them there forever. Build better public transportation and bicycle lanes so that people have less reason to drive, which will clearly increased traffic safety.
Also, the biggest group of bad drivers, of illegal drivers, is the police themselves. You never see them ticket themselves, do you. Clearly they don’t believe the law is keeping people safe, or they would be following it.
That’s not to say there shouldn’t be any traffic laws at all, but most traffic enforcement on the streets is not keeping people safe, and it’s not intended to keep people safe.
A lot of traffic enforcement is revenue generation. It really is road piracy for the sake of getting money, and not for keeping people safe. If you want people to slow down, install more speed bumps. Put speed cameras in your school zones, on your main thoroughfares, and leave them there forever. Build better public transportation and bicycle lanes so that people have less reason to drive, which will clearly increased traffic safety.
Also, the biggest group of bad drivers, of illegal drivers, is the police themselves. You never see them ticket themselves, do you. Clearly they don’t believe the law is keeping people safe, or they would be following it.
That’s not to say there shouldn’t be any traffic laws at all, but most traffic enforcement on the streets is not keeping people safe, and it’s not intended to keep people safe.