As someone who lives near Oakland, I'd caution to take these figures with a grain of salt. There are definitely plenty of awful drivers, but there's also a significant amount of anecdotal evidence from the community that a number of these cameras are miscalibrated. There's one in particular that's clearly within a posted 35MPH zone that snaps images of people going 25.
Oakland isn't a total disaster and you have no comparison for the statement, just a will to say bad things about somewhere you've never been. Grow up, mature a bit, and learn how to be critical instead of hateful.
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CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 31 pts · 176d
Case study in “Speed limit signs don’t set the speed drivers feel comfortable at, only suggest it.”
Street design is critical.
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 176d
As someone who lives near Oakland, I'd caution to take these figures with a grain of salt. There are definitely plenty of awful drivers, but there's also a significant amount of anecdotal evidence from the community that a number of these cameras are miscalibrated. There's one in particular that's clearly within a posted 35MPH zone that snaps images of people going 25.
Steve@communick.news · 4 pts · 176d
You need total vehicle numbers for this to start meaning anything.
mrcleanup@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 176d
Clearly, they set the speed limits wrong.
Cort@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 176d
Either that or they build the roads wrong for the speeds they actually wanted
Hagenman@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d
Come to Orlando and be equally as or more shocked
Steve@communick.news · 4 pts · 176d
Seems typical. But we can't know without total traffic numbers to compare to. Is that 12k out of 1m, 100k, 20k?
classic@fedia.io · 3 pts · 176d
If they were concerned about speeding and not just an excuse for surveillance and money via fines, they'd install speed bumps
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d
Oakland isn't a total disaster and you have no comparison for the statement, just a will to say bad things about somewhere you've never been. Grow up, mature a bit, and learn how to be critical instead of hateful.