It’s time to increase fines from $85 to $500 for blocking the box on any and all intersections. Doing so would make it’s safer for everyone including pedestrians.
I think fines and enforcement for all intersection related offences should increase.
Cops focus way too much on speeding along the highways and not enough with trying to catch people running red lights and stop signs, blocking intersections, taking left turns while pedestrians are crossing, etc.
So many people die from intersections and pedestrian crossing yet cops focus on highway speeding for some reason.
Cause its easy. Hangout at a busy spot inthe highway and you can see a ton more cars speeding than if you hung out at an intersection
I can think of several specific intersections in both my home city and current city where nearly every light cycle a law is broken. Running reds, continuing advanced lefts several cars after signal change, near pedestrian misses, blocking the intersection, texting while driving, lane changes mid intersection, turning left but jumping 1-2 lanes extra to the right.
If your city has a stroad, you probably have an intersection experiencing this daily.
It would free up so much more time for police if they instead spent money on cameras at highways.
If you have a camera at two fixed points along a highway you can easily calculate the speed that a car travels between those two points.
Have one car pictured at 9am and then pictured again at 9:50am 100km away through a stretch that’s 100km/h?
Automatic ticket, easy. Obviously they had to have gone over the speed limit unless they know how to break the laws of physics.
I remember reading about a particular speeding camera that is actually turned off the majority of the time due to the sheer number of speeding tickets that are produced from it alone. It’s so much that it clogs up the entire system so they just gave up and turned it off for like 2/3rd of the time so the people processing those tickets have time to work on other cameras.
Raising the fines is good and all (rather it really should be done), but I think the entire ticketing system needs to be overhauled as well so that it’s far more streamlined to handle massive loads without hiring thousands of more people to brute force the problem.
The number of people who brag about their fines is staggering, treating them like badges of honor. If you check out automotive forums, you’ll see it all the time, with people trading tips on how to push the limits of the demerit system to avoid having their license revoked without actually fixing their habits. There’s even tips on how to legally obscure your license plate so you can’t get caught on speed cameras.
Also regarding those highway speeding cameras, normal speeding cameras just take two pictures and measure how far the vehicle has moved during that time. Though if you just equip the camera with a doppler radar, you can just directly measure the speed that way.
Reliable punishment beats harsh punishment. You could just spritz bad drivers in the face, like a cat, and they’d improve through reinforcement learning.
Its time to increase fines for drivers*
And make fine based on income, not just static sum. Works well in Finland.
Income method breaks down for extremely wealthy. Top net worth individuals typically have very low or zero income and most of their wealth comes from assets.
This would just encourage cops to target people they perceive as wealthy, and not bother with people who look poor
Has anyone ever seen anyone actually get pulled over for this?
If it’s anything like in the US sometimes the intersections are screwed up and you can sit at a light through a few greens without moving because the road you need to go on gets filled by turning lanes before the light turns red and fills up before yours is green again.
Which is what makes the next people feel like they have to pile in to the box or they’ll never get anywhere.
It’s the same where rights are allowed on reds. If you don’t pile into the box and there is a line of cars waiting to make a right, someone WILL steal that spot when it opens up just past the box, because people are selfish assholes, full stop.
